Kaonashi character details

Spirited Away is a movie which is featured by the Japanese animation film studio Studio Ghibli. This is a famous feature film of the studio and one of the main characters of the movie is Kaonashi which is a spirit without a face. The movie is about Sen and Chihiro spiriting away and was released in 2001. this is a fantasy film and is directed and written by Hayo Miyazaki, one of the founders and leading director of Studio Ghibli. The main voiceover stars of the movie are Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi, Mari Natsuki, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Takeshi Naito and others. The main storyline is about Chihiro Ogino which is a 10-year-old girl who accidentally enters the spirit world while moving to a new neighborhood. The witch Yubaba transforms her parents into pigs and she starts working in the witchs’ house with the mission to free her parents and bring them into the human world.

 About the character Kaonashi :

The meaning of the name kaonashi means No-face and is a male animated character. The character is a spirit which has the ability to become invisible, is strong, has magical conjuration, can ingest matter in any form, and can adapt itself emotionally. The voice actors for this character is Akio Nakamura in the Japanese version and Bob Bergen in the English version. This spirit reacts to the emotional changes and ingests other individuals to gain their personality and traits.

The appearance of Kaonashi :

Kaonashi character is a spirit which exists in a semi-transparent state and can shift in and out of visibility. The organs of this character are seen pulsating in several states and the character resembles a long, black tube. The character has the ability to develop legs and arms and can also leave footprints behind. It wears an expressionless and ominous mask with grey-violet highlights on his head of sorts and there is also a mouth which is painted on the mask. But the real mouth of the Kaonashi is much larger than the one which is shown on his mask.

You can get merchandise products related to the Kaonashi character on https://ghibli.store/collections/spirited-away.