Research Report
How does Hayao Miyazaki create powerful female protagonists within animation in order to manifest balance between nature and humanity?
Chapter One
Study of the design of Miyazaki’s female characters, design, archetype, beautiful worlds
Chapter Two
How the narrative and other characters are used to challenge the characters and show their true nature and relates to real life
Chapter Three
Shintoism and the messages that are translated through the films that relate to world problems today. Your name being a new upcoming film also showing this as an example/ wolf children
Notes
Otaku culture, pandering to a demagraphic, Shintoism, dying culture after ww2, princess Mononoke reflecting this. Not only is loads of crap anime coming out and swamping the industry
Research Links
https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-video-explores-the-shinto-spirituality-of-hayao-mi-1827087045
http://www.greenshinto.com/wp/2014/12/11/miyazakis-shinto-themes/
http://vodzilla.co/blog/features/the-magic-of-miyazaki/nature-and-shintoism-the-universal-religion-of-my-neighbour-totoro/
https://prezi.com/lqrnjsowu3zb/shintoism-in-studio-ghibli/
CCH-Animation Degree 