Mei and the Baby Cat Bus is an anime film that premiered in fall 2002, produced by Studio Ghibli.

About the production: the story comes from an original script, the film runs about 14 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are adventure and fantasy, with themes such as Animals.

On AniList, Mei and the Baby Cat Bus has an average score of 70%, a good score, and appears on 8,484 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Tonari no Totoro.

A short film only screened at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. This work is a mini-sequel to the film My Neighbor Totoro. Mei is eating a caramel on one very windy day, when suddenly a whirlwind appears and starts chasing her. The whirlwind turns out to be a baby cat bus. Mei offers the kitten a caramel and the two become friends. That night, the baby cat bus visits Mei. Letting Mei ride inside him, he leaps out into the sky. They head for the midnight forest full of ghosts. Other cat buses large and small have also gathered together. In the forest, Mei encounters... (Source: Ghibli Museum)

Official synopsis from AniList.