MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO - Catbus - Komorebi Plush 11cm

This premium official soft toy brings a touch of softness and magic straight from the poetic world of Studio Ghibli. This collectable soft toy celebrates the most unusual and memorable mode of transport in Japanese pop culture.

The design incorporates the unique stylistic features of the Japanese Komorebi collection, renowned for its delicate finish and natural look. This soft toy captures the unique silhouette of the famous cat-bus with absolute fidelity. Its soft polyester plush texture offers a wonderfully cosy tactile experience, ideal for cuddles or for adding a touch of poetry to your home décor.

The soft toy faithfully recreates its distinctive physical features, with its comforting little face, embroidered with a huge, knowing smile, large round eyes and small pointed ears. Crafted from high-quality polyester fibres, it showcases its numerous paws and iconic structure. Designed to adorn a collector’s shelf, brighten up a child’s bedroom or accompany young and old alike in their daily lives, this collector’s item comes with its official Ghibli cardboard label.

In Hayao Miyazaki’s eponymous masterpiece released in 1988, My Neighbour Totoro, the Catbus — whose real name is ‘Nekobasu’ — is an extraordinary and fascinating spirit of nature. This imposing, gleaming cat has the unique feature of a hollow body fused with the structure of a bus, complete with windows, ultra-comfortable fur seats and twelve legs that allow it to run at phenomenal speed. Capable of moving invisibly through the countryside, leaping along power lines and cutting through forests without ever felling a tree, he is visible only to children or spirits like Totoro. An iconic character from Studio Ghibli, he makes a heroic appearance at the end of the film to help Satsuki find her lost little sister, Mei. This Komorebi design perfectly celebrates the fantasy, originality and profound kindness of this iconic creature from Japanese animation.