Baba in Mirai
Spoiler note: Spoiler-light: this guide discusses the premise, family themes, and broad emotional arc of the film without treating the ending as a twist recap.
Baba in Mirai
Kun and Mirai’s grandmother, another link in the family’s practical support system.
Who Baba is
Kun and Mirai’s grandmother, another link in the family’s practical support system.
Personality
Gentle, familiar, and grounding. She gives the family texture outside the immediate crisis of the new baby.
Abilities, powers, or symbolic function
No special powers; her role is generational presence.
Story relevance
Baba reinforces the movie’s recurring idea that family identity is built from many visible and half-remembered helpers.
Key facts
- Appears in Mamoru Hosoda’s 2018 feature film Mirai no Mirai.
- Connected to Kun’s understanding of siblinghood, memory, or generational family identity.
- Best read through the film’s domestic fantasy lens rather than action-anime power scaling.
Related Mirai character cards
Kun OotaThe four-year-old center of the film, Kun begins as a train-loving only child who feels displaced when baby Mirai arrives.
Mirai OotaKun’s baby sister in the present and the confident older girl who appears from the future.
Young Man / Great-GrandfatherA younger version of Kun’s great-grandfather, seen during one of the film’s key family-history encounters.
YukkoThe family dog, reimagined through Kun’s magical perspective as a jealous older member of the household.