This honesty also applies to the portrayal of childhood's painful realities. Totoro captures that with unique honesty. Kids are goofy, strange, curious, and odd. Then there's the way Satsuki turns looking for the stairs into a game, proudly announcing, "It isn't in here!" over and over again, while Mei runs behind her and does the same thing. If an adult fell down a rock chute and landed on the stomach of a 10-foot-tall behemoth, they'd run screaming for the hills. Kids, for example, don't get the same thrill of recognition adults do from scenes like Mei meeting Totoro for the first time. When Chihiro changes clothes for working in the Bathhouse, Sootballs will also take care on other her clothes she wore outside, her striped shirt and her shorts.This is the kind of thing you can only see in children once you're an adult. Strangely she doesn't wear the socks again, taking them in her hands instead of wearing them. Chihiro thanks them, and then she puts on her shoes. Sootballs appear again when Chihiro returns in the Boiler Room for going outside, so they bring her back her shoes and socks. So Chihiro takes off her shoes and socks to walk better on the wooden floor of the Bathhouse, putting the removed socks inside the removed shoes, and the Sootballs intentionally carry them in their burrow to keep them safe. After that, Lin comes Kamaji helps Chihiro by sending her to Yubaba. Kamaji explains that Sootballs absolutely should work, because if they don't work the spell which turns them in this creatures would break and they would return lifeless soot. Sootballs try to protect her by surrounding her. Soon, they lay down their coal at Chihiro's feet. When Chihiro first meets Kamaji and gets rejected for a job, she helps the Sootballs carrying the coal. They are hopping when Chihiro leaves the Boiler Room. The Sootballs are friendly towards Chihiro. Even Chihiro Ogino couldn't take a piece of coal without overextending herself. The have super strength relative to their body weight. They are seen carrying coal to help power the boiler in Kamajī's Boiler Room. They work in the Bathhouse in return for small star-shaped food, called Konpeitō. When one of them gets caught, they all become dust. Mei tries to catch some, but despite this, they agree that the Kusakabe family is good and they leave to another abandoned area. They are everywhere and move quickly from the light into the shadow, which they take a liking to. The Sootballs were noticed when they left around black dirt which is soot dust within the attic of the Kusakabe house which ended up on Mei's hands and the soles of both Satsuki and Mei's feet. Sootballs appear at the beginning of the film when Satsuki, Mei, and Tatsuo Kusakabe first move into their new house. The Susuwatari are not seen eating anything else other than kompeitō in the film. One can feed Soot Sprites like how a farmer feeds chickens, throwing handfuls of Kompeitō (a hard Japanese candy) from a bucket onto the ground for them to pick up and eat. They carry Chihiro (or Sen)'s shoes and socks when she can't find them, showing that they care for Chihiro. They are also capable of showing affection to an individual, as seen when they begin to respect and support Chihiro in small ways after she is accepted by the workers of the bathhouse (mainly Kamajī and Lin). They are also capable of exhibiting very human emotions, such as anger and happiness. While they are not capable of speaking the human language, they are shown to be able to understand it, and respond to orders given to them by Kamajī. It is mentioned that, because the Soot Sprites in the film are magically conjured, they will turn back into soot without a job for them to do. Soot Sprites are not capable of speaking human languages and instead make certain, squeaky, murmuring sounds when they are excited, angry, annoyed or ecstatically happy. They also dissolve into soot if crushed, but quickly reform themselves shortly after. Their usual mode of transportation is levitating/hovering, but it is revealed in the film that they can extend black, wiry limbs (arms and legs) from their bodies to accomplish certain tasks (in this case, moving coal into the furnace) and can lift objects many times their own weight. The Soot Sprites (conjured from soot itself) are small, black, fuzzy creatures with spherical bodies and white eyes with black pupils.
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