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Today I’ve been admiring my official Studio Ghibli museum/park cel art reproduction collection which lives in its boxes to keep them brand new of course 😁 and considering if i should list it on eBay to be able to afford more life stuff 🤣🤣🤣

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Today I’ve been admiring my official Studio Ghibli museum/park cel art reproduction collection which lives in its boxes to keep them brand new of course 😁 and considering if i should list it on eBay to be able to afford more life stuff 🤣🤣🤣

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Question time…

Is the bath house Man made and inhabited by spirits or is it a spirit world creation? (See above picture)

I always assumed that the actual bathhouse was an old or ancient structure and created by someone like Yubaba, i assumed that once Chihiro went through the tunnel with her parents and as she crosses the dried up river she was crossing into the spirit world. But the area beyond the river with all the food places and the dried up river itself are clearly part of the abandoned theme park. So i thought that the abandoned restaurants part had been claimed and inhabited by spirits. Also the film shows a transformation as the spirit world comes to life as night falls across the the abandoned restaurants and as Chihiro tries to flee back across the river it’s suddenly massive and over flowing.

Regardless i always thought the bathhouse itself was this ancient structure created by Spirits but watching today in the scene where Chihiro first crosses the bridge that leads to the bath house door the construction under the traditional bridge is actually modern man made iron or steel girders and reinforced concrete which made me question and think wow is the bathhouse also just a man made structure inhabited by the spirits?

I noticed also that the rebars are still sticking out of the concrete giving it an unfinished look, could this also be a hint that maybe this is where the construction was abandoned and the actual spirit world begins? I’m not sure 🤣 because i also thought when Chihiro takes the train ride to swamp bottom that all these land scapes can’t be part of the human world? But actually maybe they are?!? It’s still day time on Chihiro’s train journey and the ghost like silhouette of a child and silhouetted people at the train stops along the way are similar to the black silhouettes we saw at the start of the film when the restaurant area came to life as darkness fell, but as darkness falls and the train passes through neon lights floating by the train by the time Chihiro visits Zeniba it’s also night time and she’s greeted by a spirit lamp. So it makes sense to me that Miyazaki has shown us a world where the spirit and human world are overlapping but just revealed at different times, i guess this is why Chihiro and Kohaku are linked since the time of Kohaku saved her life as a child and the song is “always with me”.

I will keep watching and see if there are any more signs of modern construction inside the boathouse… but what do you think??? The bathhouse built by men as part of a theme park resort bewitched spirit inhabited structure claimed by Yubaba and her patrons? Or a structure created by the spirit world?

Please comment and have your say

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Reprise - Spirited Away - Joe Hisaishi Paris La Defense Arena 6 April 2024

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Joe Hisaishi Paris La Defense Arena 6 April 2024

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Sorry more terrible camera work, i wasn’t looking at my phone 🤣 Merry-go-round of Life - Howl’s Moving Castle - Joe Hisaishi - Paris La Defense Arena 6 April 2024

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Inside the cave of the mind - Howl’s Moving Castle - Joe Hisaishi - Paris la Defense arena 6 April 2024

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Princess Mononoke - Soprano: Alexandra Marcellier and Joe Hisaishi Saturday 6th April 2024 Paris La Defense Arena

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Sorry more terrible camera work from me! But I’m watching the stage instead of my phone 🤣🤣

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One Summers Day - Joe Hisaishi, Paris La Defense Arena 06/04/24

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Joe Hisaishi Paris La Defense Arena 6th April 2024

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Joe Hisaishi Beer cup 😍

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The view from my seat for Joe Hisaishi’s Ghibli concert in Paris 🥳🥳🥳🥳 i don’t know how i managed to get a front row seat 😍

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Hayao Miyazaki just won his 3rd Oscar for the Boy and the Heron 🥳🥳🥳⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Saw this on Instagram and i can’t wait to visit Ghibli park again for the Witches Valley! 😍😍😍

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As part of a video presentation for this weekends Oscars Hayao Miyazaki recorded a live stream together with his friend Toshio Suzuki, the president of Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki also debuted a new look, shaving his iconic beard. He then went on to give hilarious answers to Suzuki's questions, and fans loved every second of it.