This leads into an argument between the two, ending in Satsuki angrily yelling at Mei and stomping off. Satsuki' disappointed and worries tells Mei the bad news, which Mei does not take well. The girls find out that a planned visit by Yasuko has to be postponed because of a setback in her treatment. In the morning, the tree is gone, but the seeds have indeed sprouted. Totoro takes his colleagues and the girls for a ride on a magical flying top. The girls join in, whereupon the seeds sprout and then grow and combine into an enormous tree.

A few days later, they awaken at midnight to find Totoro and his two miniature colleagues engaged in a ceremonial dance around the planted nuts and seeds.

Shortly after, their father's bus arrives. A bus-shaped giant cat halts at the stop, and Totoro boards it, taking the umbrella. In return, he gives her a bundle of nuts and seeds. Totoro is delighted as both the shelter and the sounds made upon it by falling raindrops. He only has a leaf on his head for protection against the rain, so Satsuki offers him the umbrella she had taken along for the father. As they wait, Mei eventually falls asleep on Satsuki's back and Totoro appears beside them, allowing Satsuki to see him for the first time. One rainy day, the girls are waiting for father's bus and grow worried when he does not arrive on the bus they expect him on. Her father comforts her by telling her that this is the keeper of the forest, and that Totoro will reveal himself when he wants to. Despite her many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree. She falls asleep atop the large totoro, but when Satsuki finds her, she is on the ground in a dense briar clearing. She meets and befriends a larger version of the same kind of spirit, which identifies itself by a series of roars that she interprets as Totoro.

She discovers two small magical creatures who lead her through a briar patch and into the hollow of a large camphor tree. One day, Mei sees two white, rabbit-like ears in the grass and follows the ears under the house.

It is implied that they are going to find another empty house- their natural habitat.įile:Järnaborna känner Mei från Totoro.jpg When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits leave the house to drift away on the wind. Satsuki and Mei find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called Sootballs - small, dark, dust-like house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. In 1958 Japan, university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, move into an old house to be closer to the hospital where their mother Yasuko is recovering from a long-term illness.

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