In spite of the typhoon weather the past couple of days, we managed to head out to Kumomoto for the last day of the Ghibli Exhibit. Kumomoto Museum is right next to Kumomoto Castle, which made it perfect and convenient for my one day trip! ^^
Ghibli Exhibit
Sketches from popular Ghibli films, to comics and series that I’ve never seen before. The sketches were really nice, and some of the details in pencil were astounding! It was a winding exhibit and at the end was a picture with Totoro!
Picture with Totoro
There was a huge picture of Totoro stretched across the floor. With a line that wound around corner, after corner. Along the walls of the picture area was covered with little round stickers, all of them had drawings from kids. Some were Totoro (especially the dust sprites), other Ghibli characters and other Japanese characters (Ie. Am-pan Man).
Pictures were free, and everyone needed to have their own personal camera. Everyone of all ages were having fun, sprawling themselves on the floor. Sadly, I forgot my digital camera – but thank god for smart phones! Good enough for me! 😀
Outside of the exhibit, people also had the choice of taking their picture with Ponyo. People got to hold little buckets with a little Ponyo in them for the photo.
Ghibli Souvenir Shop
As we finished our tour we decided to check out the Ghibli souvenir stand. It was so busy, and so difficult to not go crazy with my wallet. I really love Ghibli, as did many of the other attendees. Everyone was shoulder to shoulder and the most popular of Ghibli anime merchandise went flying off the shelves. Luckily, I plan to be going to the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo fairly shortly, so I was okay to pass on many of the items this time.
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