My Neighbor Totoro
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
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Clean for the whole family
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Is "My Neighbor Totoro" appropriate for children?
ValorScore's Content Advisory for "My Neighbor Totoro" is "Clean" (0/100), measuring sex, violence, language, and drug use. See the full per-axis breakdown below to decide if it fits your family.
See the per-axis breakdownDoes "My Neighbor Totoro" have woke/ideological content?
In ValorScore's editorial reading, "My Neighbor Totoro" has ideological presence rated "Clean". This is editorial opinion, not a verdict — see the axes and their evidence in the breakdown below. The overall ValorScore (cleanliness + value + audience rating) is 91/100. See every axis and its evidence in the breakdown below.
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Axes on a 0–10 scale (the score at the top of the page runs 0 to 100).
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Ideological reading (editorial opinion)
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- Anti-Family0.0AI Analysis
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Portraying the natural family or parenthood as oppressive or obsolete.
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