Fictional Japanese spirits from Studio Ghibli films
Susuwatari
Studio Ghibli race
Multiple Susuwatari in Spirited Away
First appearance
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Last appearance
Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies
2022
Created by
Hayao Miyazaki
Susuwatari (Japanese: ススワタリ, 煤渡り; "wandering soot"), also called Makkuro kurosuke (まっくろくろすけ; "makkuro" meaning "pitch black", "kuro" meaning "black" and "-suke" being a common ending for male names), is the name of a fictitious sprite that was devised by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, known from the famous anime-productions My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and Spirited Away (2001) where, in the former, they are identified as "black soots" in early subtitles, as "soot sprites" or "dust bunnies" in the Streamline Pictures English dub,[1][2] and as "soot gremlins" in the Walt Disney Studios English dubbed version.
^Turner, Jon (2009-09-05). "My Neighbor Totoro (Fox dub and Disney dub)". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 2016-02-07. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
^"My Neighbor Totoro by 20th Century Fox, Hayao Miyazaki, Dakota Fanning - 24543059233". Barnes & Noble. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014.
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dust-like house spirits called susuwatari, that can be seen when moving from bright places to dark ones. The susuwatari leave to find another empty house...
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a job from the bathhouse's boiler-man, Kamaji, a yōkai commanding the susuwatari. Kamaji refuses and asks a worker named Lin to send Chihiro to Yubaba...
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