Home anime: Ghibli producer offers Totoro lesson online

In this frame grab taken from undated handout video footage released by the Nagoya City Education Board Education Centre on May 12, 2020, Suzuki gives an online tutorial for drawing one of its characters ‘Totoro’ at his home in Tokyo. Suzuki contributed the video to a website intended to support children stuck at home during the coronavirus outbreak. The lovable Totoro is the star of Studio Ghibli’s popular film ‘My Neighbour Totoro’, which tells the story of two sisters and their friendships with forest creatures. — Handout/Nagoya City Education Board Education Centre/AFP

TOKYO: Time on your hands and a love of anime? A producer from Japan’s Studio Ghibli is offering an online tutorial for drawing one of its most beloved characters: Totoro.

Toshio Suzuki, former president of the Tokyo-based studio, contributed the video to a website intended to support children stuck at home during the coronavirus outbreak.