MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO - Blue Totoro - Hidamari Plush 22cm

This premium official soft toy brings a touch of softness and magic straight from the poetic world of Studio Ghibli. Officially licensed by Semic, this collectable soft toy celebrates the liveliest forest companion in Japanese pop culture.

The design incorporates the unique stylistic features of the Japanese Hidamari collection, renowned for the exceptional softness of its textures and the immediate comfort it provides. This soft toy captures the round, stocky and reassuring silhouette of the blue Totoro with absolute fidelity. Its ultra-soft plush texture offers a wonderfully delicate tactile experience, ideal for moments of tenderness or to add the perfect finishing touch to a cosy interior.

The soft toy faithfully reproduces his distinctive physical features, boasting his characteristic turquoise-blue coat, his large white belly embroidered with the famous blue arrow-shaped (or crescent-shaped) motifs, as well as his long, upright ears and large, wide-open round eyes. It is made from a combination of silky polyester fibres and an ingenious polyethylene bead filling at its base. This system ensures excellent stability when seated, preventing it from tipping over. Designed to decorate a bedroom, adorn a collector’s shelf 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 Blue Totoro — whose real name is ‘Chū-Totoro’ — is a middle-aged forest spirit (around 679 years old) who often accompanies the large grey Totoro. Slightly smaller and much livelier than his elder counterpart, he is recognisable by his azure colour and the small canvas bag filled with acorns that he regularly carries over his shoulder. His path crosses that of young Mei as he attempts to slip quietly across the courtyard of the house in the company of the little white Totoro. Although he is shy and easily startled by the slightest noise, his mischievous presence plays an active part in opening the doors to the magical world, invisible to the two sisters’ eyes. This Hidamari version perfectly captures the spirit of adventure, curiosity and deep kindness of this iconic character from Miyazaki’s films.