Chihiro is the main protagonist and heroine of spirited away. at the start of the movie, chihiro is a stubborn and ignorant ten year old child who always wants everything to be what she wants to be, but when her she enters the spirit world and her parents get turned into pigs, she pulls herself together with the of haku. on her arrival at the bathhouse, her name gets stolen and changed to sen. this is the name that she is known by in the bathhouse. during her stay in the bathhouse, chihiro develops and becomes a much more mature and brave person as she determinedly does everything she can to free her parents, and escape from the spirit world, which she succeeds to do.

haku

haku is the main hero of spirited away. haku is a river spirit of the kohaku river that is stuck in the spirit world, as the kohaku has been covered up with pavement and is no more. he can also change into a white dragon. when chihiro comes into the spirit world, haku is the first person to and show kindness to her, and in turn, she comes back to him when he needs it most. when first met, haku is perceived as a good person, but doubt starts entering into the mind when it is found out that he is actually yubaba's apprentice, but later in the movie, chihiro squashes a little black slug in his body that releases haku from yubaba's power. chihiro also haku remember who he really is, and that gives haku alot of inner peace with himself.

yubaba & zeniba

yubaba is the evil witch and owner of the bathhouse. she is the main antagonist in the movie as she is evil and very greedy. when chihiro first meets yubaba, yubaba's wrinkled and ugly face is shown, as well as her shiny earrings, which show her evil and greedy character. when she threatens chihiro, yubaba's large eye is shown by itself and makes her seem frightening. she also towers over chihiro, which shows her power and intimidating character.

on the other hand, there is zeniba, yubaba's twin sister. she looks exactly the same as yubaba, and when first met, seems to have the same evil and greedy personality too, but when chihiro sets off for zeniba's house to return the golden seal that haku stole, zeniba turns out to actually be a nice person. zeniba lives in a small and isolated cottage that looks very warm and inviting inside and outside. she also acts very kindly towards chihiro, her out and even gives her a present. it could be said that she is the other half of yubaba to make a whole.

other characters

rin

rin is a common female worker of the bathhouse. she is one of the first people to befriend chihiro in the spirit world. her character is kind and fair, but her real character is shown, when no-face starts giving out gold. she becomes greedy and becomes just like eeryone else in their attempt to get some gold.

no-face

no-face is a monster of the spirit world who cannot remember who he is and where he lives. in the movie, he drifts along to the bathhouse and befriends chihiro and ventures into the bathhouse to cause alot of different consequences. in this way, he becomes the main character in one of the sub-plots of spirited away. in this subplot, he starts to give away gold for food, and even starts eating the people in the bathhouse. eventually, chihiro comes to the rescue and takes him along to zeniba's house, where he comes decides to stay.