Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Nausicaä's pet fox-squirrel, Teto.
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Castle in the Sky (1986)
Laputan robot from Castle in the Sky. -
Dakota Fanning, Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Hitoshi Takagi, Frank Welker, and Elle Fanning in My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro. -
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro. -
Phil Hartman in Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service. -
Michael Keaton, Shûichirô Moriyama, Akemi Okamura, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley in Porco Rosso (1992)
Porco Rosso. He's curmudgeonly. But his bark is worse than his bite. -
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Forest Spirit AKA Shishigami AKA the Night-Walker from Princess Mononoke. Very very cat-like. He might ignore you most of the time. -
Billy Crudup and Yôji Matsuda in Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ashitaka's loyal red elk, Yakul, from Princess Mononoke. -
Claire Danes and Yuriko Ishida in Princess Mononoke (1997)
Moro or one of her two grown wolf pups from Princess Mononoke. Stay on their good side. Their bite is much deadlier than their howl. -
Spirited Away (2001)
No-Face (but only after it had learned its lesson in humility) from Spirited Away. -
Daveigh Chase and Rumi Hiiragi in Spirited Away (2001)
Soot Sprites from Spirited Away. They come in a pack of several dozens. Keep them fed with snacks and stuff. They'll delightfully help you with light chores. -
Ryûnosuke Kamiki and Josh Hutcherson in Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
The cursed scarecrow, Turnip-Head from Howl's Moving Castle. -
Dee Bradley Baker and Daijirô Harada in Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Hin from Howl's Moving Castle. -
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
The fire demon, Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle. His friendship also is contingent on you providing breakfast, lunch, and dinner (or at least good scraps from those meals). -
Akiko Yano, Noah Cyrus, and Yuria Nara in Ponyo (2008)
Ponyo (and sometimes some of her younger siblings if their mother cannot find a suitable babysitter to watch over them). -
The Cat Returns (2002)
Baron Humbert von Gikkingen, also known simply as The Baron, from Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns. -
Pom Poko (1994)
An entire clan of tanuki or Japanese raccoon-dogs from Pom Poko.
