Studio Ghibli trivia 1/?In Spirited Away, when Chihiro signs the contract for Yubaba’s job, she writes one of the characters of her name “荻野千尋” wrong (the first letter if you can see the difference). Haku later tells Chihiro not to forget her name or else she can’t escape out of the Spirit World. The fact she made a mistake in her name is the early symptom of the spell Haku talks about. Luckily, because Chihiro signed the contract with her wrong name, it meant she did not give her real name to Yubaba so that she can control her fully. If Chihiro did sign the contract with her correct name, she would not have been able to go back to her parents, and would have stayed in the Spirit World forever just like Haku (who cannot go back to being Kohaku River because he already forgot his name, and therefore is already under full control of Yubaba).
(via theghiblistudio)