Paste of my comment on plebbit kia2

[Belle's] message of female empowerment has gained attention for flipping the script on anime, Japan's signature style of animated movies and graphic novels that often portrays girls and women as weak, vacuous and hyper-sexualized.

The message has resonated in Japan during a time when growing numbers of women are calling for change - most recently laid bare through a string of sexist comments by high-ranking Olympic officials that drew fierce backlash.

"I feel that women characters in Japanese anime are often depicted through a lens of desire leading to their sexual exploitation, and too much is brushed off as a freedom of expression," the film's director, Mamoru Hosoda, said during an interview earlier this month at Studio Chizu, his animation studio in the Tokyo suburbs.

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Hosoda said he hopes to draw attention to the ways that Japanese animation has shaped the public's perceptions of women and girls, and what it means to be beautiful and powerful.

"Such exploitation [has been] . . . justified with the notion that it's happening in a fantasy world, and not in reality. But I feel that, surely, such perceptions are connected and will influence our reality," he added, as he sipped on coffee at his office, decorated with posters and figurines.

Still reading through the article and it'll be a few minutes before I post some other parts that made me 😨 since I posted this while I cool down from a run. But man, if you thought Japan was free of wokeists...it ain't.

Found on Kia1. Article from Nation Thailand, a Thailand-based English language news site.