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moonlune OP wrote

"I will not name him, but there is a great master of animation who always takes a young woman as his heroine. And to be frank I think he does it because he does not have confidence in himself as a man.

"This veneration of young women really disturbs me and I do not want to be part of it," he insisted.

He wants to free his heroines from being paragons of virtue and innocence and "this oppression of having to be like everyone else."

It's interesting that he criticized myazaki for sacralizing women in his work, while they are seen as some of the least problematic women in anime. He's got a point imo, that I hadn't noticed up till now because everything around it was so much worse.

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kin wrote

Interesting point, maybe what happens to Miyazaki is like a virtuous male gaze, he tries to create a Counterstereotype for his female protagonists but in doing so he fetishizes them. I would require more references to form an opinion

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Fool wrote

This article touches on it a little bit. https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/26/21269833/hayao-miyazaki-studio-ghibli-anime-otaku-culture-manga-influences

In an interview about Kiki’s Delivery Service, he emphasizes that Kiki has to be an appealing girl for the film to work, but doesn’t quite explain why she is appealing. It is as if what is appealing about Kiki is too obvious to be said. These “appealing girls” appear throughout Miyazaki’s filmography. Even though these depictions aren’t really sexualized, they do present a narrow selection of virtues and characteristics that Miyazaki finds admirable in a person, specifically a young woman.

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