There is also a murder-case, the Sayama incident, which has many scary coincidents with Tonari no Totoro. The storytakes place in Sayama hills where also Hachikokuyama Hospital is, which is believed to be the model of the hospital where the mother is Shichikokuyama Hospital.

There, the only one who actually noticed that the sisters were there, was the mother, who also soon is going to die.And in the ending scene, Satsuki and Mei donвЂ™t have any shadows some says. With TotoroвЂ™s help she finds her dead sister and they together go to their motherвЂ™s hospital. So Satsuki goes on a desperate search for Totoro, calling for him and actually opens up the door the realm of the dead herself. When Satsuki is asked about the sandal she cannot face the truth and lies about it not being MeiвЂ™s sandal. What that means for the story is that when Mei goes missing and a sandal is found in the pond, Mei actually drowned. This theory says that Totoro is the God of Death, so the persons that can see Totoro are actually close to death, or already dead.

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