some thoughts about the wind breaker anime so far

you like when guys blush!?...then here take the official art by satoru nii from our boi Sakura😚...

Oasis

He's trying to read his book, Kaveh!

AWOOOO

"i got sent as backup to this mission and it turns out its u im backing up"

who do you think they are to each other? / it took me twelve years to find my friend / he was just this kid in my head for such a long time, and I think I just missed him / you dream in a language I can’t understand / you make my life so much bigger, and I just wonder if I do the same for you / this is where I ended up. this is where I’m supposed to be / I just wanted to see you one more time / I didn’t know liking your husband would hurt this much / maybe we were a bird and the branch it decided to rest on one day / who you are is someone who leaves / to arthur, you are someone who stays / if this is already a past life, who do you think we are to each other in the next?

PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song

- But why are you immigrating? Na Young's father is a film director, and you're an artist. Why would you leave all that behind? - When you leave something behind, you gain something, too.

Past Lives (2023)

something about the boy and the heron saying that beautiful things don’t last forever and that’s okay. it’s okay to move on, there will be pain and grief but happiness and hope will come again.

Studio Ghibli will be like. what if you had no control in the adventure you were forced on. what if it was up to you to stumble blindly through the world your ancestor failed to balance. what if he tried to force the responsibility of balancing it onto you. what if you were made to let go of you mother (again. you didn’t get to say goodbye this time either). what if you remembered everything you were meant to forget.

and what if joe hisaishi went all out on the soundtrack

I truly feel like The Boy and The Heron is Miyazaki’s apology letter to his son Goro.

Not in a “your my precious son and I love you so much, here a movie to make you for my failures” kind of way

but in a “I’ve built this incredible empire and legacy that’s given magic to millions of people, and in that time you’ve lived in that same world, and so naturally it’s expected that you’d take it over in my place, but I know that you’ll never succeed me or that you’ll be able to recreate the magic. This magical world will die with me, this company will die with me, and that’s okay. You don’t have to be me.”

With The Boy and the Heron, Miyazaki really said: I accept that my legacy is out of my control, that my children may not be my successors, that this tremendous monument I've built with a lifetime of toil, this fiery blessing that simply fell out of the sky, may not continue without me, In fact, it may crumble to dust, I accept it because my children and their children are alive and well, in this imperfect world, and thats enough. Yes, I accept that this is the end, but God damn, I'll go out with a bang.

Chainsaw Man Cinema

That one time I got so obsessed with @hazel-athena ‘s Facade that I blacked out for 2 weeks and woke up to a mountain of sketches

The thing about whiny misogynist pissbabies calling the Barbie movie “anti-men” is that the emotional resolution of the narrative is the male character being told that he is enough as the person he is, regardless of status qualifiers like a girlfriend or a career. It’s the most pro-men message imaginable. You don’t have to be successful in societal-mandated ways to matter. You don’t have to be in a relationship with a woman to matter. Not meeting unrealistic standards of masculine success does not make you a loser.

Ken dives in a performative exhibition of hegemonic masculinity (he literally says he lost interest in the patriarchy when he realized it wasn’t about horses: his adoption of hegemonic masculinity behavior is a performance. Hegemonic gender roles ARE a performance.) because he’s scared. The original state of Barbieland is indeed toxic (the point is that Stereotypical Barbie fixes everything by leaving Barbieland and becoming a real woman, not a sterotype of a woman), and that makes Ken insecure and frustrated. He heals by being told that he matters regardless of the achievements that he is supposed to have in order to be a Man™.

The movie is a love letter to both women and men, it’s just anti-misogynists who feel threatened by women existing as people.

Shorter conservatives: me, me, me.