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Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.
— Spirited Away • 2001
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Nothing in Zeniba's cottage is about spells, and that is the point: the line is plain comfort about what people carry with them. It sets up the film's last turn, because Chihiro does remember, and her memory gives Haku his name back. The wording here is the Disney English dub's.
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In context
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Late in the film, Chihiro, with No-Face, the baby Boh and the bird Yu-Bird, travels to Swamp Bottom to return the golden seal that Haku stole and to apologise to Zeniba, Yubaba's twin sister. The sister who threatened her turns out to be kind. Zeniba reveals that Yubaba's slug controlled Haku, says she cannot help Chihiro's parents, and gives her a protective hairband. In this cottage scene she also gives Chihiro advice about remembering Haku's name, which Haku had earlier told her he had forgotten. Haku then flies Chihiro back, and on the way she recalls the Kohaku River and names him.
Sources (3)
- Ghibli Wiki: ZenibaPersonalityReference checked
- Wikipedia: Spirited AwayPlotReference checked
- Wikiquote: Spirited AwayDialogue sectionReference checked
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