Catbus, or Nekobasu with Satsuki

The Catbus (or Nekobasu) is one of the two most recognizable characters in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro), directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large creature, depicted as a grinning cat with a hollow body that serves as a bus, complete with windows and seats coated with fur, and a large bushy tail. A door magically appears when a person would like to board it to travel. With its multiple caterpillar-like legs, it runs, flies, bounces, and hops across forests and lakes to reach its destination, making whole rice fields sway in its wake. Its eyes shine a yellow light brightly like headlamps to guide itself. Mice with glowing eyes suspended next to its destination sign and from its rump serve as running and tail lights. Image File history File links Catbus. ... Image File history File links Catbus. ... Studio Ghibli (スタジオジブリ) is a Japanese animation film studio, and a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten. ... My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ - Tonari no Totoro) is a 1988 Japanese animated movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. ... // Portrait of animator Hayao Miyazaki. ... The striking caterpillar of the Emperor Gum Moth This article is about insect larva. ... Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa Rice refers to two species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) of grass, native to tropical and subtropical southeastern Asia and to Africa, which together provide more than one fifth of the calories consumed by humans. ...

Often used to transport Totoros, in the film it makes an exception to help King Totoro, who asked it to help Satsuki find her lost sister Mei. After the sisters are reunited, the Catbus volunteers to whisk Mei and Satsuki over the countryside to see their mother in the hospital, who was suffering from tuberculosis. When the Catbus finally leaves them, its body fades into the evening shadows. Tuberculosis (commonly shortened to TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (Miliary tuberculosis), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...

The Catbus was also featured in the short 20-minute film Mei and the Kittenbus (Mei to Konekobasu), which was shown for a limited time in the Ghibli Museum. In the film Mei, the younger sister, meets the child of the original Catbus, which is simply named Kittenbus. It is just large enough to fit Mei in, and can only stir up dust devils. They flew into the forest with many other cat-based vehicles, including different types of catbuses and cattrains, which were carrying Totoro and many other forest spirits to a catliner, which is depicted as an ancient cat. Ghibli Museum, Mitaka A life-size model of a robot from the animation Laputa on top of the Ghibli Museum Ghibli Museum is a commercial museum showing off the Japanese anime work of Studio Ghibli. ... Dust Devil Johnsonville, South Carolina A dust devil is a rotating updraft, 1000 meters or more high and tens of meters in diameter. ...

See also

• My Neighbor Totoro
• List of fictional cats

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External links

• My Neighbor Totoro at Nausicaa.net
• Mei and the Kittenbus at Nausicaa.net
• Gallery of Bake Neko art