Another from 'down under'...

Welcome to the Tavern, jenandy...
We hope that you enjoy your stay...

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I personally like the film, but to have a direct sequel would spoil the fun for us fans to create our own fan fic. But hooray if they do anyway.

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Wellcome to the Tavern jenandy and markmaddon86.We all enjoy here and
I think you guyes will also have funn.

The ghibli movies are excellent and some of them are fine as they are. Some i think would have great sequels, but Hayao Miyazaki doesn't like carrying on with the past, he wants to follow the future and won't do sequels. Thats what i read the other day.

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I want to live in a Studio Ghibli creation.

I think it's part of the magic, I saw this film tonight and I love it. Such an amazing film, glad I paid the £12 to get it on DVD.

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Only appropriate place to post this I guess. My personal problem with not having sequels is that you get so attached to the characters that it's disappointing to say bye to them. At the end of each movie I get spoiled I guess. Almost forget it's just a movie

Yeah, I get that as well. It's almost like depersonalization really, everyone loves the characters and wants more. Thinking about it more now, I kind of want a sequel.

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The thing with wanting a sequel to something like this is that, as much as you came to like the characters, if it was intended as a stand-alone work it could be difficult to make a suitable new story involving them. Of course, there are many films that have had sequels when they weren't originally meant as part of a series, but it was because there were more stories to tell. Spirited Away is very much a coming-of-age story, and after Chihiro returns to the normal world I'm not sure it would be appropriate to make a new story that isn't extremely different from the original.

The only way to do it I think would be a kind of spin-off set in the spirit world, but personally I would still prefer it to be left alone.

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Or Chihiro and Haku get together again later on in her life, but I agree with arren in that I don't really want to see a sequel... I don't see the point.

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A movie that could easily incorporate a sequel would be Princess Mononoke seeing that there is still so much trouble going on even after the movie ends. But due to the extreme popularity of My Neighbor Totoro and Sprited Away those would be the films getting the sequels.. If any at all.

Yeah, I would love to go back to the Spirit World.

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Originally posted by sea1208
I love that film so much. and so do my friends. Even it was made in 2001, we still waiting for part 2. because Haku promised to meet Chihiro again. So i wonder does it have part 2

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Welcome to the Tavern, BimoXT, it is always a pleasure to see new members. "Spirited Away" was the first foreign language anime to win an Academy Award (Oscar). I believe that was the category.

And many of the Ghibli movies remind me so much of when I once lived in Japan. It gives me a 'feel good' feeling...

There aren't as many active members in here as there used to be, but we still represent many parts of the world.

Again, Welcome...

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Welcome! It's good to hopefully have another young one around here like me. Spirited Away is possibly my favorite Ghibli, but I'll have to rewatch Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service before I make that call.

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I'm skeptical about a sequel. Yes, it's my favourite film but I feel as if it was left off perfectly..I wouldn't want to add more to it. I've found most sequels not satisfying anyways. I rather leave things up to imagination.

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I agree, Lynnie. I think a sequel would be pandering, and a lot of sequels are unnecessary and just for money (Glares at Madoka Rebellion and Cars 2).

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Yes, unless its a huge original work like Lord of the Rings where a single 2-hour film can't do the story justice, I dislike all sequels. The original Matrix stands perfectly well on its own and needed no sequel.

Besides at the end of Spirited Away we have perfect closure and the end of a story with a clear statement about Chihiro's personality and spirit.

Flare hit the nail on the head - sequels are just about making more money. They are about greed. Miyazaki doesn't do greed.

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"An old man like me stands no chance fighting against a high school girl in her underwear" - Oshino Meme, Nekomonogatari (Kuro)

Saddles, I couldn't agree more. Its ironic that sequels, being so much about greed, are being asked to be made for Spirited Away, a film that has an underlying theme of why we shouldn't be greedy. Now, I don't hate all sequels. There have been some truly great ones! Think Star Wars (the original trilogy, because the others were terrible IMO), the Toy Story Sequels, and while Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3 were terrible, Jurassic World wasn't too bad.

Plus, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, if you can count that as a sequel.

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I wouldn't say Disappearance was a sequel, its more story from the original novels. Another chapter ripe to be animated. In my view Haruhi and Monogatari are typical worlds with so much content that additional films and series aren't in the same mould as sequels.

I'm pretty sure that the first three Star Wars films were always intended as a trilogy weren't they?

A proper sequel is Die Hard 7 or Rocky 95-part 4. Or Star Trek the Nineteenth Generation. Stuff that's really scraping the barrel.

Its true there are some very very good sequels... but equally that artistic energy could have been channelled into creating some entirely new fresh films to wonder at instead of a continuation of an existing universe.

One fresh take on an old story I would very much like to see is another film version of War of the Worlds only completely faithful to the book so it is set in Victorian or early Edwardian England and the Martian machines are very steampunky. That would be fantastic... though its hardly a sequel.

Meh. I went off topic.

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"An old man like me stands no chance fighting against a high school girl in her underwear" - Oshino Meme, Nekomonogatari (Kuro)

Miyazaki never considered making a sequel to Spirited Away... we just have to respect that decision.
If a sequel was made, it'd be just for the sake of having a second part, not because someone thinked of a new concept or story that'd really enrich the original thing. It'd be very artificial.