Can Anime Teach You How to Be a Grown-Up?
by Simon AbramsPage 7 of 7
Once again, the way Chihiro assimilates to her environment is by working for her various benefactors. She has to work to be taken seriously, practically begging for the opportunity to work from a hermetic eight-legged taskmaster. With his attention wandering from task to task and his hands stretching like elastic to pick through drawers to find exactly what he needs, he could be Miyazaki's avatar: the man with his feet in the clouds and his head on nothing but work.
