Springaling Halloween Fling 2: Ghiblirish

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In the last panel Nightmare is costumed as Totoro from Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro.  Totoro is a forest spirit, huge and, at first, intimidating.  But as the film progresses Totoro turns out to be benevolent and even fun-loving.  Of course Nightmare would want to dress as him.  (Or her?  How do you tell?)  If you have not yet seen this film, I highly recommend it.

A few hours ago I posted a status asking if anyone could guess what anime character I was going to dress Nightmare as.  I got the answers I expected (Ryuk, plus a bunch of characters I've never heard of) but someone surprised me by guessing right!

Oh--the ghost children at Nightmare's feet are Kodama, another kind of forest spirit, from Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke.

Next up: Characters you'd never expect to see in Springaling.