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"Kodama" (木魅) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien.Kodama (木霊, 木魂 or 木魅) are spirits in Japanese folklore that inhabit trees.The term is also used to denote a tree in which a kodama supposedly resides.
Initially, Miyazaki had the main characters Totoro, Mei, Tatsuo, and Kanta. [5]: 8 The director based Mei on his niece, [7] and Totoros as "serene, carefree creatures" that were "supposedly the forest keeper, but that's only a half-baked idea, a rough approximation". [5]: 5, 103
Enormous creatures Miyazaki created by combining insects and other arthropods, which exist in a perpetual larval form until their lives end. They were created specifically to represent a new ecosystem for the story, simultaneously stimulating a sense of wonder and alienation.
Miyazaki's work on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was inspired by a range of works including Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, Brian Aldiss's Hothouse, Isaac Asimov's Nightfall, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. [12] Miyazaki also says he took possible inspiration from The Lady who Loved Insects folktale. [14]
In the film by Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, San is raised by wolves after being abandoned by her parents and grows up to fight and protect her forest. San from Princess Mononoke (1997 Hayao ...
Nausicaä (/ ˈ n ɔː s ɪ k ə / no-sih-kə; Naushika (ナウシカ, [naɯꜜɕi̥ka])), renamed Princess Zandra in the Manson International Warriors of the Wind English dub, is a fictional character from Hayao Miyazaki's science fiction manga series Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and his anime film of the same name.
Susuwatari (Japanese: ススワタリ, 煤渡り; "wandering soot"), also called Makkuro kurosuke (まっくろくろすけ; "makkuro" meaning "pitch black", "kuro" meaning "black" and "-suke" being a common ending for male names), is the name of a fictitious sprite that was devised by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, known from the famous anime-productions My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and ...
In 1950s Japan, [1] two girls, Satsuki and Mei, whose mother has been hospitalised with tuberculosis, [2] relocate to a village in the countryside. [3] Their new house, in which they live with their professor father, [2] Tatsuo, [4] is haunted with soot spirits, susuwatari, [3] and they encounter Totoro, a "forest spirit who looks like the result of an experimental breeding programme involving ...