Talk:My Neighbor Totoro

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_films_by_Studio_Ghibli#Mei_and_the_Kittenbus
Can we find a way to combine or make them the same? They can both still exist, but all information should be uniform between them. xnamkcor (talk) 19:14, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Different KittenBus Paragraphs 

message: These are listed with the Romanised version, the kanji, and an English gloss; fair enough, but then the whole thing is enclosed in quotes, as in this example:
* "Gogatsu no Mura (五月の村, "The Village in May")"
This results in at least an ugly ")" ending, which would be neater without the outermost quotes. I cannot see any reason for them, but before I remove them, I would just like to check there is not some obscure Wikirule which compels them. Imaginatorium (talk) 05:20, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of songs 

message: Most other sources cite a 86 minutes running time as is my DVD version of the movie. Is the infobox wrong? 10:57, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong running time? 

message: It may be worth adding to this article that the version of this movie on Netflix is a new sub/dub apparently https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-releases-21-studio-ghibli-masterpieces-around-the-world. I would do it myself, but I'm terrible at Wikipedia editing. 99.252.158.137 (talk) 00:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Netflix Sub/Dub 

message: This article has had "1958" given as the year the story is set for the past 13 years, this is based on an edit which sources a calendar — not in the movie — but in a real-life replica of the Kusakabe house in Moricoro Park, Japan.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Neighbor_Totoro&oldid=206234115
There is contrary evidence given in an old entry on this talk page where a calendar in the movie shows an April set on a Monday, within the 50s this can only be 1957. I'm more inclined to believe this, but truth is, it's original research, and actually there's no way to verify what year it was set. JAYFAX (talk) 10:07, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year set is unverifiable 

message: Beauty School Dropout While there are times where redlinking is appropriate, this movie has come out decades ago, and it is unlikely that the red links you added back will become an article, because it is likely unnotable. See WP:REDYES for more info TheGEICOgecko (talk) 01:22, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red links 

message: I removed this: (literally|Neighbour of Totoro) from the lead, because it is simply wrong. It is not clear that any more "literal" translation helps the reader in any way. We have an editor producing the clumsy "Next door's Totoro", but at least getting the grammar the right way around, and another getting the grammar completely wrong, with "Neighbour of Totoro". The relevant grammatical point is the Japanese is (everywhere) head-final, and particles like no (の) allow a noun on the left to qualify the noun on the right. So tonari ("next door") qualifies Totoro. It does not necessarily indicate possession, and cannot necessarily be translated with "of"; in this case it simply means "The Totoro who lives next door". The only part of the English title not directly mapping to anything in the Japanese is "My", and in some contexts the same expression could indeed refer to "Your neighbour Totoro", or "Mr Smith's neighbour Totoro". I suggest that no "literal" translation is needed. Imaginatorium (talk) 05:31, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Literal" translation 

message: Thanks to  for the c/e and adding the cn tags, which I've addressed. VickKiang (talk) 22:32, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks 

message: , thanks for your detailed review, , I thank you for correcting the incorrect tense here, which used to be present continuous but I accidentally changed it into past simple, inconsistent with the rest of the plot section.
However, , you've restored the line "One rainy evening". This is indeed long-standing text but I've removed as in the article's GAN review it was said that  by Sims2aholic8. TheBlinkster, I'd be interested if you have an opinion about the phrase (as in whether it builds upon additional context). Thanks. VickKiang (talk) 00:47, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "One Rainy Night"/"One Rainy Evening" phrase 

message: It has some striking similarities with Alice in Wonderland; I'm not sure if/where to include it, but some sources that may help: , , , , 
Gabriel Yuji (talk) 03:08, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This information is certainly interesting, and I think a sentence mentioning it could be fit somewhere in the Reception section, though I'm not sure exactly where. Links 4 and 5 seem like WP:SELFPUB, by the way, so I might not include them. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 06:54, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alice in Wonderland 

message: Hey Poirot09, I don't think the phrase "cult following" should be used in the lead at the moment, as the phrase is never used later in the article. I also could not find a source that uses this specific phrase, which is why I let DBeyer2003's edit stand. Let me know what you think! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 12:58, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: After re-reading the article, I think the phrase should be outright removed. There is no substantial information regarding the fandom, only about Totoro's impact as a character, which is already covered in the lead. Poirot09 (talk) 13:22, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that makes sense. Lacking any significant discussion in the body, there's no reason for it to remain in the lead. I'll go ahead and remove it. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 15:18, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  About "cult following" 

message: I've noticed that one of the sources in the legacy section (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i3338808b4eeae51f3a3a1b041eee3d7c/) has been tagged as dead since last year, is there a way we could deal with this? Blue Jay (talk) 10:35, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link