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“Will we meet again someday?”
”I’m sure of it.”
”Promise?”
”Promise.” Daily Sketch (05/??)
First digital artwork of the year, first artwork for this blog, and also my 5th Daily Sketch! Chihaku reunion scene a few years later ;)
once you’ve met someone, you never really forget them
Preview of my Ghibli Pouches available for Cosmania! They’ll come with Calcifer and No Face charms respectively ✨ (I keep forgetting to post this here asjdas)
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Name ten female characters you like, you get zapped if it's jsut a male character you call a babygirl or other feminine nicknames because I can't see people calling Lestat coquette again
Spirited Away Mother’s Day gift
I drew this for my mom for Mother’s Day and had plans to make her a keychain with UV Resin, but the attempts didn’t go well😑.
I’m going to try again later, when I have more supplies to make a better keychain. But for now this is what I’ll give her 🥳
Had to write this for class. I like a lot how it turned out, and I can’t still figure out where the hell the inspiration for writing this came from, but I’m glad this was the result.
I hope you enjoy it guys!!!
- Rain Deckerson (Beatriz Aqueveque H.)
Kohaku's real name and it's connection to his identity
Nigihayami Kohakunushi, also known as Kohaku/Kohaku river and/or Haku, is a character from the movie Spirited Away (Studio Ghibli, 2001) who I must admit, he’s pretty much my favorite from the movie (as well as Chihiro who I identify a lot with), and I will speak about him today in a topic that caught my attention: how his name is severely tied to his identity and how Chihiro is the one who, by giving him back his full name also gives him back his true identity as “Nigihayami Kohakunishi (translated to English as "God Of The Swift Amber River” however in the English dub of the movie it is only referred to him as the Kohaku river).
At the beginning of the movie we get to know this mysterious boy who in a not-so-delicate manner tells Chihiro that she must leave before the sun sets. This boy turns to be Haku, who will later help Chihiro through the whole movie as she gets trapped in the spirit world, with her parents turned into pigs and unable to go back to her realm.
Haku presents himself sometimes as someone a little rude and quite cold, with a harsh behavior towards the other members of the bath house. People paints him as someone one shouldn’t trust even due to his personality and due to him being Yubaba’s henchman. However, it’s only when he’s alone with Chihiro that he shows his true personality as someone caring, who wants to help Chihiro to save her parents and get out of the realm, and cares for her well-being and giving her advice, even protecting her when it’s needed.
A curious thing presented to us since we meet Haku is that he knows Chihiro’s name, claiming to have known her since she was very little, and although he cannot remember his real name anymore, Haku can remember the protagonist’s name, and during the same scene where both of these things are presented he also points out to the girl that she must not forget her real name, otherwise she will be trapped forever under Yubaba’s control and will never be able to leave, just like what happened with him.
During the movie, Chihiro is aware of how much Haku has helped her and she wants to return the favor to him, helping him when Haku is cursed by the golden seal she stole from Zeniba, not only saving him from dying but also liberating him from Yubaba’s control (although he is still under the contract that indicates he is at her service, he no longer can be used by Yubaba the way she pleases. The only thing tying him to Yubaba now is how he still cannot remember his name).
Chihiro still wants to help him and truly believes he is a good person, as she has seen his true personality and how he truly is. She decides to go give Zeniba her golden seal back and apologize for Haku, knowing he isn’t a greedy thief, he’s just being used by Yubaba. Zeniba understands and forgives, and while the girl stays at the place, she asks Zeniba for advice, commenting on how Haku told her they have known each other since she was very little yet she can’t seem to remember from where does she know him. Zeniba assures her that the memories will come back to her, that once you have met someone you never really forget them.
Near the end, Haku in his dragon form goes to pick up Chihiro from Zeniba’s house and as they’re both flying together back to the bathhouse, Chihiro focuses and is able to remember where she knows Haku from: when she was little, she dropped a shoe in a river and when she tried to pick it up, she fell into it, saved from drowning by the spirit of that river. The river was the Kohaku river, and Haku’s real name was Nigihayami Kohakunushi, thus, breaking the contract that ties him as Yubaba’s henchman, freeing him.
Now, what’s my point here?
The name “Haku” means white, and in the context of the movie it’s used to represent the lack of an identity, as white is considered the absence of color; Haku when we meet him has forgotten his personality and doesn’t really have a personality of his own inside of the bathhouse, being the personality we see the one he has taken due to how his contract with Yubaba made him be: cold, strict and high-strung, with people reminding Chihiro that he isn’t someone to trust.
However, he knows Chihiro, who is part of his past and part of who he used to be and can’t truly remember anymore. My personal take on this is that due to this connection he is able to remember her name and somehow remember that they have known each other since she was very little, even if he was not able to remember from where did he know her. Unconsciously, “Haku” -referring here to the personality he takes when he serves as Yubaba’s henchman in the bathhouse- disappears whenever he is alone with Chihiro, and “Kohaku” -the real him, his true identity- comes to the surface only during these moments, even if he doesn’t even realize it.
Chihiro is the key of him being able to recover his real self, who he truly is as she is able to remind him who he was in the past, before he lost his sense of identity.
When Chihiro is able to remember where she and Kohaku met each other and remembers his true name, Haku is able to remember too and is freed from Yubaba’s spell, remembering who he used to be and who he really is, recovering his personality and his true name: he is able to remember that he is the spirit of the Kohaku river and how he met Chihiro too, remembering that he saved her back then.
The name represents a part of his identity, and when he’s under Yubaba’s control he loses the name “Nigihayami Kohakunushi” to take the name “Haku”, losing his real identity in the process, and Chihiro is the one who gives him back his personality and his real self by giving him back his real name.
With this, I conclude my essay.
I hope you enjoyed it! Will bring more like this soon.
- Beatriz Aqueveque H.
A Chihiro and Haku fanfic, everyone ~
Hi, folks~ I posted a fanfic for Spirited Away a while back on AO3! It's a childhood-best-friends-to-lovers trope hehe~
Please do check it out! I'd love to know what you think of it!
Lots of love, Fae~