Haha very true about the change and acceptance in TW fandom!
I think an accessible place to start is with Miyazaki... Ponyo was a retelling of the Little Mermaid story, which is very, very Christian (or the transition between paganism and Christianity)... it's all about the eternal soul and sacrifice and salvation. Ponyo turns the story Buddhist and makes it all about compassion, inter-reliance and accepting change.
I used to watch this series called Galaxy Express 999 when I was a little kid in Japan. It was about a little boy who leaves Earth on a flying steam train because he wants to get a metal cyborg body so he can live forever. They stop at a bunch of planets on the way and all this incredibly bleak stuff happens that just keeps slamming home the message EVERYBODY DIES AND NOTHING WILL EVER LAST AND HAPPINESS IS A FLEETING ILLUSION. It's the sort of thing no one would never dream of letting kids watch here.
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I think an accessible place to start is with Miyazaki... Ponyo was a retelling of the Little Mermaid story, which is very, very Christian (or the transition between paganism and Christianity)... it's all about the eternal soul and sacrifice and salvation. Ponyo turns the story Buddhist and makes it all about compassion, inter-reliance and accepting change.
I used to watch this series called Galaxy Express 999 when I was a little kid in Japan. It was about a little boy who leaves Earth on a flying steam train because he wants to get a metal cyborg body so he can live forever. They stop at a bunch of planets on the way and all this incredibly bleak stuff happens that just keeps slamming home the message EVERYBODY DIES AND NOTHING WILL EVER LAST AND HAPPINESS IS A FLEETING ILLUSION. It's the sort of thing no one would never dream of letting kids watch here.