#spirited away rin

[heliphantie]

July 20, 2001, 25 years ago, Hayao Miyazaki’s movie “Spirited Away” (千と千尋の神隠し) was released theatrically in Japan.

There is a couple of fanarts based on the movie (from 2023 and 2024).

[anhedoniacity]

SOOOOooooo in Spirited Away, everyone at the bathhouse has appearances that reflect animal spirits (Kamaji is a spider, Yubaba is a bird, etc.). All the spirits that are low-status workers like Lin and Sen are either slugs if they are feminine or frogs if they are masculine. Obviously this doesn’t apply to Sen, since she is human, but it also doesn’t apply to Lin, who is either a weasel or white fox spirit, depending on who you ask. Conclusion: because Lin, a lowly bathhouse servant is neither a slug yuna nor a frog, she must be a nonbinary girl. 

[heliphantie]

Happy St. Valentine Day!

Have some thematic Ghibli fanart from 2022/2023.