If you’ve seen the anime movie Spirited Away, there is no doubt that you have fallen deeply in love for the characters. As for me, there’s no doubt that I’m in love with every single last one of them. So much so that every time I watch Spirited Away, and see my favorite characters in this anime movie, I have so much fun that I feel can watch it over and over again.

The Spirited Away anime movie was released in Japan during July of 2001 and it became the highest-grossing film in Japanese history. The Spirited Away anime movie was the first film to have earned $200 million at the worldwide box office, before it ever even opened in the United States. The extreme popularity, and wide spread appreciation for this movie, had no doubt come from the appreciation of the anime style of the film, the story, and of course, the amazing characters.

In the Spirited Away anime movie, a little girl is moving to a new town with her parents. She is unhappy and irritable about the move. The family, on their way, gets lost, and comes across a tunnel. They enter the tunnel out of curiosity, and find that it’s a portal into a spirit world.

The main character of the Spirited Away anime movie is Chihiro, who’s name is translated to “a thousand fathoms”. She is the little girl that is in the process of moving to a new town when her family stumbled upon the entrance to the spirit world. The Spirited Away anime movie follows her adventures. I love watching her mature from a whiny, self-centred and pessimistic child into a hard-working, helpful and optimistic young woman.

Chihiro’s parents are Akio and Yuuko Ogino in this anime movie. Akio is Chihiro’s father and he is seen as impulsive from start of Spirited Away. Although odd, I thought it was funny when Chihiro’s parents were turned into pigs at the start of the movie.

Haku, another character, is the young boy who helps Chihiro after her parents have been turned into pigs. He helps prevent Chihiro from becoming a spirit, and also gives her advice on getting some work at the bathhouse - just to get by, and eventually, in hopes of seeing her parents again.

Haku works as a direct subordinate of Yubaba, an old sorceress. He runs errands and goes running off on missions for her. Haku has the ability to fly, and also has the even better ability to become a dragon. Toward the end of the Spirited Away anime movie, Chihiro remembers falling into the river, of which Haku is the spirit. Chihiro then frees Haku from Yubaba’s service by helping him remember his real name.

Even though Haku comes across as cold, and isn’t a popular guy with the bathhouse staff, he is always kind to Chihiro. This is what makes him my favorite character in the Spirited Away anime movie. It made me mad to watch Yubaba treat Haku like a little magical errand boy, and it make me even madder to see him lay dying in front of her, and all that she seemed concerned about, was if any of his blood was getting on the carpet.

All of this of course is just a start. As I said, I’ve seen this movie over and over, and I could probably, by this point, type out the entire anime movie scene by scene. I am greatly in love with the anime movie Spirited Away, if I didn’t make that clear.

If you are also in love with this movie, then I hope you enjoyed reading my reasons why I like this movie so much. If you however, haven’t seen this anime movie, it might be a good idea to find out what millions of people all over the world are raving about.