RELATED: Princess Mononoke: San's Tattoos and Other Details Revealed by Studio Ghibliįurther inspection of the child on the poster shows that she seems to have Mei's pigtails, making her seem like a combination of the two sisters.
This was the initial idea for My Neighbor Totoro when Miyazaki made the original concept art in the 1970s as watercolor paintings, which featured Totoro and a seven-year-old girl. The potential names for that girl in early drafts include Satsuki and Mei. Totoro was also originally going to be a 40-minute long short film before expanding into a feature film. Once the movie's production grew in the late 1980s, it made sense to turn the girl from the concept into two. Miyazaki has commented on the change saying that "If she was a little girl who plays around in the yard, she wouldn't be meeting her father at a bus stop, so we had to come up with two girls instead. And that was difficult."Īlthough the film became about two sisters, Ghibli decided to keep Miyazaki's original concept as the official artwork when promoting the film, hence why the poster features the original little girl even though she doesn't appear in the film.
Despite what some may call a continuity error, it hasn't stopped people from buying that image as a poster, DVD cover or T-shirt. Since there was not a large or complex plot for My Neighbor Totoro to begin with, it was a great idea to turn the story from a girl meeting Totoro to two sisters meeting the creature. As memorable as the titular character is, the heart of the film is the relationship between Mei and Satsuki as they move to a new home and take care of each other while their mother is sick.
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