Susuwatari

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Susuwatari ( Jap. ススワタリ ; to . Dt "migratory carbon black "), even Makkuro Kurosuke ( まっくろくろすけ ), is the name of a fictitious being that of Hayao Miyazaki has been devised by the studios Ghibli received shape and in the anime " My Neighbor Totoro ”and“ Spirited Away ”appear. It is assigned to the group of yōkai .

In the German dubbing of the films, they are referred to as Rußbolde or Rußmännchen.

description

Susuwatari are described and represented as the size of a tennis ball, fluffy-haired and pitch black. They have two large bulging eyes and long, thin legs. They live in old, abandoned houses and cellars and love to spread dust and dirt. In addition, they can carry objects that are many times heavier than they are. While they only frighten the two girls Mei and Satsuki in "My Neighbor Totoro" , but are otherwise harmless, in "Spirited Away" they have to do hard work and be at the service of the spider yōkai Kamaji .

literature

  • Hayao Miyazaki, Yuji Oniki: Spirited Away . Viz Communications, San Francisco 2003, ISBN 1569317941
  • Hayao Miyazaki: My neighbor Totoro . Viz Communications, San Francisco 2005, ISBN 1591166993
  • Julien R. Fielding: Discovering world religions at twenty-four frames per second . Scarecrow Press, 2008, ISBN 0810859963 , page 317.
  • Patrick Drazen: A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition: from Folklore and Kabuki to Anime and Manga . iUniverse, New York 2011, ISBN 1462029426 , 144.
  • Ayumi Suzuki: Animating the chaos: Contemporary Japanese anime, cinema, and postmodernity . ProQuest, Carbondale 2008, ISBN 0549605053 , page 14.