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Wait

You're Totoro!
—Mei to Totoro

It's falling!

Mei Kusakabe (草壁メイ, Kusakabe Mei) is the four-year-old protagonist little sister of Satsuki in My Neighbor Totoro and daughter of Tatsuo Kusakabe and Yasuko Kusakabe. She is incredibly lively and active as well as rather curious.

Personality and Bio

Mei is the Little sister of Satsuki in My Neighbor Totoro.

In the film

Mei Kusakabe is the little sister of Satsuki Kusakabe and daughter of Tatsuo Kusakabe and Yasuko Kusakabe (who has Tuberculosis in hospital). She was born in Tokyo in May 1953. She is the first seen when aboard the moving van along with her sister Satsuki and her father Tatsuo Kusakabe. She is eating her caramel while the family passes rices field on village. But she says first line "Wait" and lift by her father and looks a stream over the bridge but both Girls running straight to the new house, But Mei happy meet Totoro and does so by falling down a hole in a tree root after following smaller totoros excitedly. Mei isn't the least bit scared of the new creature she has found even when it opens its huge mouth to yawn. Instead she just opens her mouth back. Mei does have a caring side and decides to go to the hospital with the sweet corn she picked from Granny's garden. However she ends up getting lost on the way and gets very upset.

Mei and the Kittenbus

Mei runs outside of the house. When she eats a Japanese caramel cube candy,

Tonari no Totoro - Sosuke and mini Totoro

a mini whirlwind suddenly comes spinning her dress.

Characteristic

Mei Kusakabe is four years old. In the Steamline dub, she is five. She has sandy brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. She wears a white puffy blouse with a bright pink dress (as present in her birthday and buyed from a shop) and sunshine yellow shoes and white bloomers, and carries a yellow bag. At the end of the film, she wears a carnation pink dress. Mei also wears a sunshine yellow night-dress at night and a sky blue night-dress at night in the sequel.

File:Meisees.jpg

File:Mei looking through bucket.jpg

Personality

Mei is really cute, stubborn, caring, and incredibly curious.

Behind the Voices

Mei Kusakabe is voiced by Chika Sakamoto in Seiyu, Cheryl Chase in Streamline dub and later Elle Fanning in Disney Dub.

File:Mei and Flower.jpg

Relationships

Satsuki Kusakabe an eleven-year-old girl who works in school
Tatsuo Kusakabe
Yasuko Kusakabe

Feature Films

My Neighbor Totoro

Trivia

Mei is the origin of May on Japanese.

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-'''Mei Kusakabe''' (草壁 メイ, ''Kusakabe Mei'') is the four-year-old protagonist little sister of [[Satsuki Kusakabe|Satsuki]] in ''[http://studio-ghibli.wikia.com/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro My Neighbor Totoro]'' and daughter of [[Tatsuo Kusakabe]] and [[Yasuko Kusakabe]]. She is incredibly lively and active as well as rather curious.
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+}}'''Mei Kusakabe''' (草壁 メイ, ''Kusakabe Mei'') is the four-year-old protagonist little sister of [[Satsuki Kusakabe|Satsuki]] in ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'' and daughter of [[Tatsuo Kusakabe]] and [[Yasuko Kusakabe]]. She is incredibly lively and active as well as rather curious.
+== Personality and Bio ==
-==Early life==
+Mei is the Little sister of [[Satsuki Kusakabe|Satsuki]] in [[My Neighbor Totoro]].
-Mei Kusakabe is the little sister of [[Satsuki Kusakabe]] and daughter of [[Tatsuo Kusakabe]] and [[Yasuko Kusakabe]]. She was born in [[Tokyo]] in May 1953. She is the first seen when aboard the moving van along with her sister [[Satsuki Kusakabe|Satsuki]] and her father [[Tatsuo Kusakabe]]. She is eating her caramel while the family passes rices field on village. But she says first line "Wait" and lift by her father and looks a stream over the bridge but both Girls running straight to the new house, But Mei happy meet Totoro and does so by falling down a hole in a tree root after following smaller totoros excitedly. Mei isn't the least bit scared of the new creature she has found even when it opens its huge mouth to yawn. Instead she just opens her mouth back. Mei does have a caring side and decides to go to the hospital with the sweet corn she picked from Granny's garden. However she ends up getting lost on the way and gets very upset.
+==In the film==
+Mei Kusakabe is the little sister of [[Satsuki Kusakabe]] and daughter of [[Tatsuo Kusakabe]] and [[Yasuko Kusakabe]] (who has Tuberculosis in hospital). She was born in [[Tokyo]] in May 1953. She is the first seen when aboard the moving van along with her sister [[Satsuki Kusakabe|Satsuki]] and her father [[Tatsuo Kusakabe]]. She is eating her caramel while the family passes rices field on village. But she says first line "Wait" and lift by her father and looks a stream over the bridge but both Girls running straight to the new house, But Mei happy meet Totoro and does so by falling down a hole in a tree root after following smaller totoros excitedly. Mei isn't the least bit scared of the new creature she has found even when it opens its huge mouth to yawn. Instead she just opens her mouth back. Mei does have a caring side and decides to go to the hospital with the sweet corn she picked from Granny's garden. However she ends up getting lost on the way and gets very upset.
 ==Mei and the Kittenbus==
-Mei runs outside of the house. When she eats a Japanese caramel cube candy, a mini whirlwind suddenly comes spinning her dress.
+Mei runs outside of the house. When she eats a Japanese caramel cube candy,
+[[File:Tonari no Totoro - Sosuke and mini Totoro.png|thumb|220x220px]]
+a mini whirlwind suddenly comes spinning her dress.
 ==Characteristic==
-Mei Kusakabe is four years old. In the Steamline dub, she is five. She has light brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a White puffy blouse with a Pink dress (as present in her birthday and buyed from a shop) and Yellow shoes and white panties, and carries a yellow bag. At the end of the film, she wears a light pink dress. Mei also wears a yellow night-dress at night and a sky blue night-dress at night in the sequel.
+Mei Kusakabe is four years old. In the Steamline dub, she is five. She has sandy brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. She wears a white puffy blouse with a bright pink dress (as present in her birthday and buyed from a shop) and sunshine yellow shoes and white bloomers, and carries a yellow bag. At the end of the film, she wears a carnation pink dress. Mei also wears a sunshine yellow night-dress at night and a sky blue night-dress at night in the sequel.
+[[File:Meisees.jpg|thumb|220x220px]]
 [[File:Mei looking through bucket.jpg|thumb|220x220px]]
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 ==Behind the Voices==
-Mei Kusakabe is voiced by [[Chika Sakamoto]] in Japanese, [[Cheryl Chase]] in Streamline dub and later [[Elle Fanning]] in Disney Dub.
+Mei Kusakabe is voiced by [[Chika Sakamoto]] in Seiyu, [[Cheryl Chase]] in Streamline dub and later [[Elle Fanning]] in Disney Dub.
+[[File:Mei and Flower.jpg|thumb|220x220px]]
+[[File:Mei.png|thumb]]
 ==Relationships==
-*[[Satsuki Kusakabe]] a eleven years old girl who works in school
+*[[Satsuki Kusakabe]] an eleven-year-old girl who works in school
 *[[Tatsuo Kusakabe]]
 *[[Yasuko Kusakabe]]
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 == Feature Films ==
 * ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''
-* ''My Neighbor Totoro 2'' (upcoming)
 ==Trivia==
 *Mei is the origin of May on Japanese.
-== Gallery ==
-[[/Gallery/]]
-<gallery>
-Mei looking through basement window.jpg
-Mei Kusakabe and her father.jpg|''Mei runs and jump and follow her big sister''
-Mei flower.png
-Mei - nut.jpg
-Meiteeth.jpg
-MeiHungry.gif
-MrsKusakabeHome.png|Mei with her sister Satsuki rushing to see their mother
-God Jul Mei önskar från Tomten.jpg
-Mei wearing hat.png
-Mei.jpeg
-</gallery>
 [[Category:Children]]
 [[Category:Humans]]

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