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Sorry if i did the link wrong. But as a mother of two young men, I could have told disney they did it all wrong and lost the gen z's to Anime. Here is where disney went wrong and i hope someone from disney reads this and really thinks about it.
Lets start where disney went wrong explained in the first two paragraphs
Disney of old - classic movies that I still love (Cinderella, SnowWhite, even sadly the Little Mermaid, and Aladdin) but sadly they had it wrong because the female was the victim who needed her male "prince" to rescue her (mind you the prince she met one hour before or day before) -which enchanted and frozen 1 so poignantly pointed out.
Dinsey of new - has changed this and now the male character cant survive without the female. Disney killed Toy story in Toy story 4 Where Woody left with Bo?? My kids grew up with toy story - I had put all their toy story stuff away for grand children thinking that would be something cherished forever. Nope - that one movie had my kids telling me to throw everything out. Who writes this stuff??? This is a story about friendship Woody and Buzz best friends forever. And disney wants to know where they went wrong????
Disney in the middle years- They got it right! Princess and frog, tangled, Beauty and the beast, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch (animated) ect - had it right. Both the female and male characters had flaws and needed each other to rescue each other. Princess and Frog - Tiana was an overachiever who sacrificed any fun for work - to an extreme. The prince on the other hand was lazy and total opposite - was all about fun and zero work ethic. They rescued each other.
Tangled - They brought out the best in each other and helped each other. She has her own goals and internal motivation, while Flynn it is reforming himself and finding that there is more to life than being a thief (on an island that i own tan and rested all alone) he has growth beyond being a selfish person and she helps him to realize this. Beauty and the beast - I don't think it needs an explanation.
Why anime is killing it with Gen Z males - They never sacrifice the male protagonist to make the female protagonist stronger. There are really strong female protagonists (Demon slayer - many strong female characters in the Hashira who fight and die in the infinity castle arc; AoT - Mikassa, but her strength does not diminish any of the male characters; onepiece the entire crew support and grow from each other -Nami is the smart navigator - luffy never questions her skills and vice-versa). Alchemist brotherhood - Winn (female) is Ed's prosthetist. She's brilliant and tells him or his brother off when they are wrong. So where did disney go wrong? I said it above they have in essence turned their male characters into the female characters of old. they need to go back to the middle, where the characters support each other and not make one gender strong at the expense of the other. I feel i have a decent understanding of this since we have had some pretty lengthy discussions on this. Disney has lost my two in terms of movie watching and tv to Anime - along with all their friends for the reasons i listed above. One more thing anime does right - it poses philosophical questions that younger kids might not understand but older ones will. lets start with naruto - the Pain arc - where the cycle of hatred is explained in terms of hate begets more hate and killing begets more killing. The importance of one willing to break the cycle and make changes. alchemist has the philosophy of equivalent exchange echos Kants categorical imperative. Attach on Titan = is the endless cycle of oppression and revenge. There is many more. OnePiece tackles racism, oppression, human trafficking among others. Legends of galactic hero is a mix of plato Hobbes and Machiavelli in space.
Sorry so long but I really hope disney is able to grasp where they went wrong and why they lost their male base to anime.
Sorry if i did the link wrong. But as a mother of two young men, I could have told disney they did it all wrong and lost the gen z's to Anime. Here is where disney went wrong and i hope someone from disney reads this and really thinks about it.
Lets start where disney went wrong explained in the first two paragraphs
Disney of old - classic movies that I still love (Cinderella, SnowWhite, even sadly the Little Mermaid, and Aladdin) but sadly they had it wrong because the female was the victim who needed her male "prince" to rescue her (mind you the prince she met one hour before or day before) -which enchanted and frozen 1 so poignantly pointed out.
Dinsey of new - has changed this and now the male character cant survive without the female. Disney killed Toy story in Toy story 4 Where Woody left with Bo?? My kids grew up with toy story - I had put all their toy story stuff away for grand children thinking that would be something cherished forever. Nope - that one movie had my kids telling me to throw everything out. Who writes this stuff??? This is a story about friendship Woody and Buzz best friends forever. And disney wants to know where they went wrong????
Disney in the middle years- They got it right! Princess and frog, tangled, Beauty and the beast, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch (animated) ect - had it right. Both the female and male characters had flaws and needed each other to rescue each other. Princess and Frog - Tiana was an overachiever who sacrificed any fun for work - to an extreme. The prince on the other hand was lazy and total opposite - was all about fun and zero work ethic. They rescued each other.
Tangled - They brought out the best in each other and helped each other. She has her own goals and internal motivation, while Flynn it is reforming himself and finding that there is more to life than being a thief (on an island that i own tan and rested all alone) he has growth beyond being a selfish person and she helps him to realize this. Beauty and the beast - I don't think it needs an explanation.
Why anime is killing it with Gen Z males - They never sacrifice the male protagonist to make the female protagonist stronger. There are really strong female protagonists (Demon slayer - many strong female characters in the Hashira who fight and die in the infinity castle arc; AoT - Mikassa, but her strength does not diminish any of the male characters; onepiece the entire crew support and grow from each other -Nami is the smart navigator - luffy never questions her skills and vice-versa). Alchemist brotherhood - Winn (female) is Ed's prosthetist. She's brilliant and tells him or his brother off when they are wrong. So where did disney go wrong? I said it above they have in essence turned their male characters into the female characters of old. they need to go back to the middle, where the characters support each other and not make one gender strong at the expense of the other. I feel i have a decent understanding of this since we have had some pretty lengthy discussions on this. Disney has lost my two in terms of movie watching and tv to Anime - along with all their friends for the reasons i listed above. One more thing anime does right - it poses philosophical questions that younger kids might not understand but older ones will. lets start with naruto - the Pain arc - where the cycle of hatred is explained in terms of hate begets more hate and killing begets more killing. The importance of one willing to break the cycle and make changes. alchemist has the philosophy of equivalent exchange echos Kants categorical imperative. Attach on Titan = is the endless cycle of oppression and revenge. There is many more. OnePiece tackles racism, oppression, human trafficking among others. Legends of galactic hero is a mix of plato Hobbes and Machiavelli in space.
Sorry so long but I really hope disney is able to grasp where they went wrong and why they lost their male base to anime.
