I just watched Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi), a Japanese anime film about a 10-year old girl named Chihiro who wandered into the world of spirits, monsters and gods and found the meaning of love, friendship and sacrifice. Chihiro’s name was changed to Sen by the evil sorceress Yubaba so that she could never go back to her world but Haku helped her, he remembered her name despite forgetting his own. Haku is actually a white dragon, a river spirit, who once helped a younger Chihiro when she drowned in his river and eventually fell in love with her. Chihiro remembered this incident and the name of the river, the Kohaku which is Haku’s real name: Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi.

Its a really great story, in fact I watched it twice today! The fact that the adorable Haku is a dragon and real adorable in both forms makes this anime movie my favorite, Chihiro is really cute, No Face is one of my favorite, and Yubaba would definitely scare a four year old… And yeah, it won the 2003 Oscar for Best Animated Feature and 35 other awards worldwide, so go see it… If you ask nicely, I might let you watch it…

I just wish there’s more to the ending though, they did promise that they’ll see each other again…

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