What is the difference between Yubaba and Zeniba?

Yubaba has a big, warty head and a huge nose, features that make her evil seem inevitable. At first Zeniba seems as unscrupulous as her sister, but Zeniba leans more consistently toward good.
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Is Zeniba and yubaba the same?

Zeniba (Granny by Chihiro Ogino) is a witch as well as the older twin sister of Yubaba in the film Spirited Away.
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Why did Chihiro go to Zeniba?

Zeniba lets Chihiro go as a thanks for leading her to a dying Haku but threatens to rip her mouth out if she tells anyone about what she has witnessed. She demands Chihiro to move away so she can deal with Haku, but Chihiro refuses, stating that Haku is a good person.
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Are granny and Yubaba the same person?

Yubaba (湯婆婆, Yubaba) (Granny by Chihiro at the climax of the film) is the proprietor of the Bathhouse and the main antagonist of the Japanese animated film Spirited Away. She is the identical younger twin sister of Zeniba and the mother of Boh.
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Why did Zeniba turn Boh into a mouse?

Later, Zeniba turns Boh into a mouse, which allows him to escape his isolated state.
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Is Zeniba Sens grandmother?

Zeniba is still no saint, but her wisdom helps everyone to discover their true identities and abilities. By the end of the film Sen addresses both Zeniba and Yubaba as “Granny,” which suggests not only that both twins are wise in their own way, but that they are merely two sides of the same coin.
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What did Sen give No-Face?

Once she is dubbed Sen and made a bathhouse worker by the witch Yubaba, she invites No-Face in and he transforms from a quiet, seemingly shy character to a glutinous beast. There's much more to this monster than meets the eye, though, and some fans may have missed the most interesting facts about the "monster."
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What does the name Zeniba mean?

Origin:Japanese. Meaning:Money, ancient.
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Why is Yubaba so big?

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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Is Lin human Spirited Away?

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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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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Does Chihiro forget her name?

From then onward, Chihiro becomes 'Sen', by which she is known to the other inhabitants of the bathhouse. Her transformation is so complete that even she forgets her own name. A farewell card in her shirt pocket luckily shows her true name, allowing her to remember it.
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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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What was Zeniba's spell on Haku?

The protective spell causes the thief to die and can only be broken by love. The seal was stolen by Haku. He acted on behalf of the Witch Yubaba. Because of this order, Haku (as Dragon Ryuu) was almost killed.
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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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Why does Yubaba take away Chihiro's name and call her Sen?

When Yubaba takes those other kanji all that is left is 「千, せん = sen」, this is what Chihiro's name will become in the spirit world if she ends up staying there forever. So she will effectively forgot everything about her life of the living. who she was, her parents and basically everything she ever knew.
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Is Bo Yubaba's son?

Bôh is a character in the 2001 animated Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away. He is the biological son and only known child of Yubaba and the nephew of Zeniba. In the Japanese version, he is voiced by Ryunosuke Kamiki and in the English version, he is voiced by Tara Strong.
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Did Chihiro forget Spirited Away?

Well, according to Miyazaki himself, Chihiro did not recall her experience after leaving the spirit world at the end — but added that it doesn't mean completely forgetting it, and how there's a likely chance she'll eventually remember what happened.
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How did Chihiro know the pigs weren't her parents?

Zeniba explained that if Chihiro has ever met them before, everything stays within. Chihiro was able to break the spell on Haku by recognizing that he was the river spirit and calling out his name. By the same token, she was able to recognize that her parents were not among the pigs assembled.
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What does Sen mean in Spirited Away?

Sen means a thousand, but the pronunciation of the character can change to "chi" as it does in the name Chihiro. The "hiro" in Chihiro means to ask questions.
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How old is Haku in Spirited Away?

Appearance. Haku appears to be around 12 years old in physical age. He has straight, dark green hair in a bob haircut and slanted, green eyes.
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Is No-Face in love with 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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Is Haku Chihiros brother?

It's because Haku is Chihiro's dead brother. That day, Chihiro didn't lose her shoes in the river, she fell into the river. And her brother pulled her hand to save her, but instead, he was swept away and never came back. Because he gave his life for others, he was able to become a god in this river.
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What does Haku represent in Spirited Away?

In his guise as a white dragon his appearance suggests a river: flowing and graceful. As Haku, however, he is not always so composed, and he exhibits both bravery and real sadness. The river he once represented, the Kohaku River, was drained and paved over to build an apartment complex, and Haku is truly a lost soul.
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Who turned Chihiro's parents into pigs?

According to a translation by RocketNews24, Miyazaki turned Chihiro's parents into pigs to represent the greed that took place during Japan's recession in the eighties.
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