Chihiro Ogino

Chihiro Ogino is the main protagonist of "Spirited Away". She is a whiny, pathetic 10-year-old girl who has to move to a new home and school with her parents. It was bittersweet when she got a bouquet of flowers prior to the events of the film because she had never received one and when she finally did, it was just a good-bye present from her best friend Rumi (named after Chihiro's original Japanese voice actress Rumi Hiiragi). In the English dub, she is voiced by Daveigh Chase.

When her parents are eating, neither of whom (not even Chihiro herself) being aware of it being spirit food, she wanders off to eventually find out she is in a spirit world. Chihiro meets a boy named Haku and later finds out that her parents have been turned into pigs and are beaten by dark ghosts. When she runs off, she finds out that where people were planning on putting a river, there is water in it. Soon, she becomes see-through until Haku gets her to eat some kind of berry (after a warning that not eating food from this world will make her disappear and assurance that it will not turn her into a pig). The two then find out that she was not dreaming when they see her parents as pigs. Haku tells her when things quiet down, to go out through the back gate and go downstairs until she reaches the boiler room to meet Kamaji. He tells her to insist she wants to work in the bathhouse even if he says no or Yubaba, the witch and chief of the bathhouse, will turn her into an animal. Going down the stairs starts out as safe until one of them breaks and she screams running down and runs into a wall. Finally, she reaches the boiler room and asks Kamaji (who receives four bath tokens at once) for a job, but due to having a lot of soot balls under a spell working for him, he refuses. When Chihiro attempts to help, she only gets reprimanded for it, and he tells her that if they don't work, the spell will wear off and they'll turn back into soot. As an older girl named Lin gives him food and takes yesterday's bowl from him, Kamaji tells Chihiro to make a deal with Yubaba. In the meantime, Chihiro has to leave both pairs of footwear in the boiler room as they are going to the top floor, where Yubaba lives.