Even thought it might been more based towards girls, it still stayed neutral as a soiled stone for both genders.
The story here is rather simple but still has a very detailed view on things that happens around it, it doesn't focus just on one thing (like defeat the EVIL monster or find that person) no it goes from 2 girls just moving in with their dad to an adventure with an Creature called Totoro.
- Which for a kid were really an inspiration for the beautiful nature we have (even though we don't really have a cat bus or cool old houses, it still show us how beautiful the surrounding is).
Even then it doesn't stop there - It even show us a bit of drama and emotions we as a child could feel (Sadness, anger, disappointed) and not just Happy-go-lucky.
The art in the movie for it's time was actually like looking into the futuristic anime's we have today.
The style was really well (even in VCR it looks amazing) done and almost felt like a dream to watch at.
The sound here is really, really good structured, you really get to know when stuff happens like something interesting is going on or something sad happen.
The Characters in the movie is really interesting but I do think the two sisters were rather overly excited (and the dad) about everything we as a kid were afraid of (at least me), like ghosts, old houses, odd creatures, etc.
But here I would then say it was actually a good thing since it did then bring up some more courage to us that we didn't have to be afraid of anything.
As a Child I Enjoyed this movie very much and even today the same movie is now as it was back then but you have now know what all these things were which you didn't know back then.
As a recommendation not only to children but to almost anyone out there who likes to take things sometimes back in time and slow.
