susuwatari
Sign in to saveAlso known as makkuro kurosuke, soot sprites, dust bunnies, soot gremlins, black soots, ススワタリ, 煤渡り, まっくろくろすけ
Susuwatari (, ; "wandering soot"), also called Makkuro kurosuke (; "makkuro" meaning "pitch black", "kuro" meaning "black" and "-suke" being a common ending for male names), is the name of a fictitious sprite that was devised by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, known from the famous anime-productions My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and Spirited Away (2001) where, in the former, they are identified as "black soots" in early subtitles, as "soot sprites" or "dust bunnies" in the Streamline Pictures English dub, and as "soot gremlins" in the Walt Disney Studios English dubbed version.
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Vinony's link graph records 107 inbound references to susuwatari, and connects out to My Neighbor Totoro, Japan and Japanese.
It is catalogued under topics including Anime and manga characters introduced in 1988, Characters created by Hayao Miyazaki and Fantasy anime and manga characters.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Material used
- soot
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- main food source
- Kompeitō
- color
- black
- name in native language
- 煤渡り
- present in work
- Spirited Away
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Description
- ''My Neighbor Totoro''
- ''Spirited Away''
- ''Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies''
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- References
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Susuwatari (, ; "wandering soot"), also called Makkuro kurosuke (; "makkuro" meaning "pitch black", "kuro" meaning "black" and "-suke" being a common ending for male names), is the name of a fictitious sprite that was devised by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, known from the famous anime-productions My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and Spirited Away (2001) where, in the former, they are identified as "black soots" in early subtitles, as "soot sprites" or "dust bunnies" in the Streamline Pictures English dub, and as "soot gremlins" in the Walt Disney Studios English dubbed version.
In the RSC's stage version of “My Neighbour Totoro”, they are called “soot sprites” and there is a solo sprite named Geoff.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “susuwatari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.