Chihiro Ogino

Chihiro Ogino, also known as Sen, is the main protagonist from the Spirited Away series.
== Charactah Account ==
Chihiro is a young girl moving with her parents to a new home and not too happy about that fact, having to leave behind her friends. On the way to their new home, she and her parents explore an abandoned park and she’s accidentally trapped in the spirit world, only just able to survive by working in the amusement park’s spirit bathhouse with the aid of benevolent spirits like Haku and Lin.
Chihiro's growth into a capable individual is a core factor to the movement of Spirited Away's plot. During her adventure in the Spirit World, she matures from an easily-scared girl with a child-like personality to match her age to a hard-working, responsible, and brave young girl who has learned to put her fears aside for those she cares for. To protect her friends and rescue her parents from a spell that has turned them into livestock, Chihiro sheds her former personality and adapts to her environment to become a courageous, quick-witted and reliable girl.
The strength of her bond with Haku as the story progresses eventually evolves into a very sincere form of love that dispelled Yubaba and Zeniba's respective curses on Haku.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Spirited Away
== Trivia ==
* The name Chihiro means "thousand" (chi) and "search, seek" (hiro).
** Part of the name Chi (in Chihiro) and Sen both use the same Japanese kanji, which means '1,000', but are different readings of the same character.
* Chihiro's surname Ogino means "reed, rush" (ogi) and "field, wilderness" (no).
** In some countries, Chihiro's surname Ogino was changed to Senko, so that viewers who do not have a deeper knowledge about the Japanese language wouldn't be confused when her name in the bathhouse was changed to "Sen".
* In an interview regarding Chihiro's character design, Hayao Miyazaki informs the audience that "[He] created a heroine who is an ordinary girl, someone with whom the audience can sympathize. It's not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. [He] wants [his] young friends to live like that, and [he] thinks they, too, have such a wish."
** Chihiro was based on a ten-year-old girl: the daughter of a friend of Miyazaki's. This girl also made Miyazaki continue working after promising retirement from filmmaking after Princess Mononoke (1997).
** One of the main character of Chihiro is similar to the one of the main characters of Belle from Beauty and the Beast (1991 Disney film) shared with the same character and design alike.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Chihiro Ogino at Ghibli Wiki
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Category:Females
Category:Spirited Away