Now Viewing: susuwatariTag type: Character 煤渡り / ススワタリ / すすわたり (susuwatari) AKA まっくろくろすけ (makkuro kurosuke) Susuwatari (Japanese: ススワタリ, 煤渡り; "wandering soot"), also called Makkuro kurosuke (まっくろくろすけ; "makkuro" meaning "pitch black", and "-suke" being a common ending for boys names), is the name of a type of fictitious youkai which was devised by Miyazaki_Hayao, drawn by Studio_Ghibli, known from the famous anime-productions My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away 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. Susuwatari are described and shown as tennis ball-sized, pitch-black and fuzzy-haired beings with two large eyes and long, thin legs. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susuwatari Other Wiki Information Last updated: 02/25/17 3:01 AM by surveyork This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
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