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* By "DontLookBack," Haku also meant that Chihiro should not tell anyone else about her experience in the spirit world after she returned.
** It may also be a reference to the Greek tale of Orpheus - he went to Hades to save his lover, Eurydice, on the condition that he doesn't look back until he leaves. He does look back when he is out, but not when Eurydice leaves - leaving her trapped in Hades for eternity.
** Or Lot's family in the Bible. Don't Look Back is a common mythological/folkloric trope across many cultures, one of many that Miyazaki channels into his works.
* Eating food at an apparently abandoned theme park is a pretty bad idea, even without spirit world creepiness. They just start eating food that has just been sitting out for-- if not years, months, weeks, or days, then at least hours.
** While it was a superbly stupid idea to assume that all that food lying there was okay to eat even if they intended to pay as soon as any personnel showed, the food did smell and look fresh out of the oven/pan/pot/whatever that respective dish was made in and despite it being warm enough weather to not wear sweaters or coats there were no flies flying around.
* It's worth noting that the act of simply smelling the food may have started affecting the parents' minds almost immediately - as soon as they smell it, it's all they care about. Granted, while they had been traveling for likely several hours and were probably hungry and wanted to stretch their legs, there's still a few additional cues:
** Chihiro's mother impatiently tells her to "hurry it up" as Chihiro struggles to cross the river with its huge rocks. Neither parent really makes an effort to help her, but the dad actively extends a hand to the mother to grab. They begin heading off without her. Bratty or not, parents typically keep their kids close in unfamiliar areas.
** They didn’t even bothered to consider that just the mere presence of delicious smelling food at stalls in an abandoned amusement park to be at all suspicious nor did they even try to resist or suppress their hunger in hopes that the staff would return. Even starving humans tend to be instinctively wary about eating food that’s been suspiciously left out in the open especially if they don’t know WHERE it came from as it could be poisoned or a trap set by someone or something they should avoid.
** Even if they had intended to pay for the food as soon as the workers came back, they seem to almost immediately attack the food upon reaching the stalls with little to no hesitation. Sure, they were hungry, but typically, even hungry people at least converse during their meals, or start to eat a bit slower. Chihiro's parents almost immediately started GORGING themselves once they'd had that first taste. They barely slow down to consider what they're eating and eventually start to take absolutely no notice of Chihiro.
** Before Chihiro walks away in frustration, and even before they've even eaten a lot of food, you can hear very loud snorting and grunting from both of them as they continue to eat. Humans do not typically make these types of noises while eating. It's likely that they started to turn almost immediately after that first bite of food.

** They didn’t even bothered to consider that just the mere presence of delicious smelling food at stalls in an abandoned amusement park to be at all suspicious nor did they even try to restrain their hunger in hopes that the staff would return. Even starving humans tend to be instinctively wary around food that’s been suspiciously left out in the open.

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* By "Don't look back," Haku also meant that Chihiro should not tell anyone else about her experience in the spirit world after she returned.

** It also doubles as a pun. His name isn't just No Face he also had a ''Noh'' face!

** Before Chihiro walks away in frustration, and even before they've even eaten a lot of food, you can hear very loud snorting and grunting from both of them as they continue to eat. Humans do not typically make these types of noises while eating. It's likely that they started to turn almost immediately after that first bite of food.

* Yubaba, in her MamaBear fury, grabs Haku with her hair and demands where her baby, is while breathing fire at him. [[TheStoic Haku]] barely reacts, but one key factor is how he's a river-spirit, [[ElementalRockPaperScissors so fire can't hurt him as much.]]

* Yubaba, in her MamaBear fury, grabs Haku with her hair and demands where her baby is while breathing fire at him. [[TheStoic Haku]] barely reacts but one factor that aids in his calm resistance is that he is a river spirit, therefore fire coming from Yubaba's mouth can't hurt him as much.

* If Yubaba and Zeniba are truly the same person, it would add a new dimension to the scene where Zeniba tells Chihiro she has a pretty name and reminds her to take care of it-this could be Yubaba withholding ownership of what she took from Chihiro earlier. (In the Japanese version, she clearly says, "Take care of [your name]. It's yours.")

*** Can't argue with the pig argument, but there are way too many coals for them to ''all'' be transformed humans. More likely, Yubaba was just using the coal example as a spontaneous threat because she was looking at the fire behind Chihiro.