Seize your coat and head to the Studio Ghibli theme park to your probability to see Hayao Miyazaki’s uncommon follow-up to My Neighbor Totoro.
Winter won’t appear to be the perfect time to plan a go to to Ghibli Park. Along with having various open-air points of interest, the anime theme park is damaged up into a number of sections throughout the metropolis of Nagakute’s expansive Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park, requiring you to stroll or take a Catbus from one to a different.
So heading to Ghibli Park in winter means a variety of being out within the components in the course of the coldest a part of the yr. However, there’s a really compelling purpose to plan your Ghibli Park go to for winter this yr, which is that the park will probably be screening the My Neighbor Totoro sequel anime.
If you happen to’re questioning why you’ve by no means seen a Totoro sequel inside a streaming checklist or on the shelf at a video retailer, it’s as a result of regardless of being made in 2002, Mei and the Child Catbus (pictured instantly above) has by no means been launched for on-line viewing, bodily industrial launch, or common theater runs. The one locations the place it may possibly ever be seen are on the theaters inside Ghibli Park and the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo, however even at these venues it may possibly’t be seen on a regular basis, as Mei and the Child Catbus (additionally typically often called “Mei and the Kittenbus”) is certainly one of various Studio Ghibli anime quick movies that display screen for restricted durations of time. The screening rotation has no set sample, however Ghibli Park has introduced that Mei and the Child Catbus will probably be coming to its theater on December 14, the place it is going to be proven each day via January 31.
And sure, Mei and the Child Catbus is written and directed by Ghibli-cofounder and Totoro creator Hayao Miyazaki, with a soundtrack by celebrated Ghibli anime composer Jo Hisaishi. At 14 minutes lengthy, it doesn’t match the size of the My Neighbor Totoro function movie, however it’s completely full of cute allure, with acquainted faces and new characters each having roles to play. Ghibli Park describes the story with:
“On a really windy day, whereas Mei was consuming caramels, she noticed a whirlwind and began chasing after it. When she lastly grabbed maintain of it, it turned out to be a Child Catbus. Mei and the Catbus grew to become mates, and that evening, they ventured into the forest.”
There’s no extra price for Ghibli Park guests to look at Mei and the Child Catbus however you’ll wish to be certain that to buy a park ticket that features entry to the Ghibli’s Grand Warehouse part of the park, the place the screening room, known as Cinema Orion, is positioned.
▼ Ghibli’s Grand Warehouse map
And for those who can’t make it to Ghibli Park this winter, you possibly can all the time console your self with the upcoming sequence of Studio Ghibli idea artwork books, that are set to incorporate illustrations from Miyazaki which have by no means been proven to the general public earlier than.
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