What did the stink spirit give Chihiro?

He is shown to be very energetic once freed of his polluted burden and displays a hefty amount of gratitude to Chihiro, who freed him, by giving her a famous type of medicine as thanks.
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What did the stink spirit give Sen?

A "stink spirit" arrives as Sen's first customer, and she discovers he is the spirit of a polluted river. In gratitude for cleaning him, he gives Sen a magic emetic dumpling.
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What was the ball the River spirit give Chihiro?

In return, the river spirit gives her some medicine described as an "emetic dumpling". Its effect is to make anyone who eats it violently sick. Although she is later able to use the medicine to help No-Face and Haku, it seems an unusual gift.
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What did Chihiro feed Haku?

For example, Haku urges Chihiro to eat food from the spirit world so she doesn't disappear, and he gives her food he's put a spell on to restore her strength. Later, as Sen, Chihiro feeds both Haku and No-Face a magic cake to cure them of illnesses brought on by what they have consumed.
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What was the stink spirit?

A Stink Spirit is, apparently, a spirit so disgusting that it appears as a large, smelly mass of sludge or ooze. One such Stink Spirit appeared in Spirited Away. However, the Stink Spirit that appeared was actually just a River Spirit that had been too polluted by garbage that needed to be removed.
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What does the stink spirit represent?

The stink spirit is an obvious allusion to man's pollution of the environment. Miyazaki said the stink/river spirit was based on his own experiences cleaning a river, where he was part of a team that pulled tons of trash (including a bicycle) from a filthy riverbed.
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Is the stink spirit Haku?

Haku, a young river spirit, and the ancient river spirit that was first mistaken as a Stink Spirit, as depicted in Spirited Away (2001). ... ... the male protagonist, cannot return home because he has forgotten his name. Viewers learn that Haku is a river spirit that can take the form of a white dragon ( Figure 6).
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Is Lin from Spirited Away human?

Lin is portrayed as a human being in the film. In the Japanese picture book (The Art of Spirited Away in English) Lin is described as a byakko (Japanese: 白虎), a white tiger, in the draft, which was later changed to byakko (Japanese: 白狐) meaning white fox..
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Is Haku a river spirit?

Haku first appears as a boy of about sixteen, but he is actually a lost river spirit that also can take the form of a white dragon. In his guise as a white dragon his appearance suggests a river: flowing and graceful.
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Why did No-Face like Chihiro?

No-Face becomes obsessed with Chihiro, and wants to see her and her only. He becomes extremely volatile after being fed the River Spirit's emetic dumpling by Chihiro, and, while fleeing from the obviously now-hostile spirit, she calls out to him twice to follow her.
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Why does Haku turn into a dragon?

It is unknown if Haku can still turn into a dragon after regaining his lost name and memories. Yubaba threatened Haku with killing him if she set Chihiro free if she found her parents in a group of pigs. In the English translation, Yubaba said instead Chihiro had to stay at the Bathhouse forever.
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What is No-Face supposed to be?

No-Face is a dark spirit who resembles a black humanoid being with a white mask. He devours other spirits and can absorb their emotions into his own soul, causing him to take on their attitudes, especially negative ones, which lead to his transformation into a villain. He serves as an antagonist until his redemption.
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Why did Haku tell Chihiro not to look back?

In my vantage point, Haku told Chihiro not to look back because she would've been somehow stuck between the two dimensions. If not that, Haku just probably didn't want her to remember looking back at his face while she was leaving the spiritual world.
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How did Chihiro know Haku name?

The very next thing Chihiro does is discover Haku's real name by remembering how she fell into the river. And then she sees through Yubaba's ruse and recognizes that her parents are not among the pigs.
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Is kohaku in love with Chihiro?

Over the course of the movie his relationship with Chihiro becomes stronger, especially after she learns he is a dragon. This bond eventually leads to them falling in love, for it was their love for each other that broke Zeniba's spell on Haku.
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Was the radish spirit help Chihiro?

I really appreciated the Radish Spirit. He had no obvious reason to help Chihiro, but he chose to anyway. Even if it was just riding an elevator with her, it was a great kindness considering that most of the other characters despised and ridiculed her instantly.
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What kind of spirit was Lin?

Type of Hero

She is a servant in Yubaba's bathhouse, and a transformed spirit of a Byakko, a white tiger (possibly fox ) that brings people happiness.
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What kind of spirit is Kamaji?

Kamaji AKA The Boiler Man

Kamaji is the six-armed boiler man who runs all of the water through the bathhouse. While some of the other spirits at the bathhouse don't have much in the way of powers, Kamaji can stretch his arms to infinite lengths.
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What did Chihiro eat?

The food in Spirited Away is animated with intricate detail. Some of it is Japanese: Chihiro noshes on onigiri (rice balls) with her parents; Lin feeds konpeito (traditional, brightly colored Japanese sugar candies) to the animate soot balls; and even ishi-yaki-imo (stone-roasted sweet potatoes) appear on screen.
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Why did the gold turn to dirt in Spirited Away?

Bookmark this question. Show activity on this post. "No-Face is a lonely being who seems to sustain itself on the emotions of those he encounters, particularly their emotional reception to his gifts." In the film, the gold produced by No-face is seen to turn into dirt as Yubaba realises her baby is gone.
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What's the green ball in Spirited Away?

It seems to be some soul cleansing magic food, because it heals Noface (he vomits up all the black goo, greed perhaps) as well as Haku (he vomits up the demon thing that made him a slave to Yubaba).
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Did Haku and Chihiro ever meet again?

So when one fan asked if Chihiro and Haku ever reunited, they learned it was possible. "Haku was the spirit of the river that runs near the house where Chihiro used to live. If Chihiro ever visits that river...," Suzuki wrote. So, there you have it.
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Why is the baby so big in Spirited Away?

Yubaba has a giant baby because everyone has a grating weakness they find difficult to manage. Whatever Zeniba's seal represents, Yubaba wants it because she's greedy and grasping for power.
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How long did Chihiro stay in the spirit world?

No one knows exactly how long Chihiro was stuck in the spirit world. It seems this particular detail was left ambiguous both on-screen and off. Miyazaki's right-hand man and Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki reckons it was about three days, based on the dust and leaves in and around her parents' car.
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Does No-Face want to eat Sen?

While No-Face is scarfing down everything edible in sight and requesting to eat everything in everyone's favorite Studio Ghibli bathhouse, paying with dirt transformed into gold, he seems like a real greedy jerk. The truth, however, is that he's an adaptable spirit who learns and changes based on those around him.
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