Great animation is like a lens, providing a fresh perspective on the world around us. This is perhaps why, of all Studio Ghibli's animated features, My Neighbor Totoro stands as its most beautiful achievement - even compared to undoubted classics such as Castle In The Sky, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, or any of its other major works you care to name. Devoid of a strict three-act plot, villains, violence or peril, My Neighbor Totoro is, even by artist and animator Hayao Miyazaki's standards, a gentle tale. Although some critics were nonplussed by Totoro's slight narrative when it appeared in US cinemas in the 1990s, it's the pace and rhythm of Miyazaki's story that makes it so timeless and captivating...
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I love Studio Ghibli's stuff. They're putting out an RPG with Level 5 next year called Ni No Kuni and it looks gorgeous.
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