#ryu to sobakasu no hime

[dailyfigures]

Belle ; Belle ☆ Good Smile Company

[starberry-cupcake]

Beauty and the Beast (1991) // Belle (竜とそばかすの姫) (2021)

I was doing some content for my virtual workshop (because we start with the Villeneuve and Beaumont Beauty and the Beast versions tomorrow) and I thought the parallels from these two were super interesting to look at clearly and that maybe someone in here would appreciate them too.

[gyubby99]

I feel like I was born to have special interests in things overhated by the media, deeming them between the lines of "overrated" and "badly written"

[mango-ti]

"Belle"- featured section from the magazine "ImagineFX" Issue 215

[piratesandpizza]

Here’s my post for this year’s ML secret santa exchange! @mlsecretsanta

Happy holidays @astrochat1963

When you put Belle in your prefered themes I immediately had the picture in my head. I hope you like it. There is also some alternative versions (Marichat, and both Marichat and Mariblanc without the overlay so the colors pop better).

I thought I was very clever by making Chat Noir’s bruises on the cape blue my mind

[peachmangopie323]

LEND ME YOUR VOOOOOOOOOICE, LET ME SEE YOUR FACE, LET ME START TO SHOWYOUWHATISEE

BRIIINGMECLOOOOOOOSE

More void mama content

I'm still obssesed with belle

[farkasxolotl]

[ Commission for @dragonfiredevil ]

"Nicely done. My nemesis."

[li-vermin-il]

🌷🌸 Belle - 竜とそばかすの姫 ✨🐋

Made some prints for this earlier this year

[nutmeganium]

Beauty & the Beast

[jigo-ku]

Belle 竜とそばかすの姫 Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime, “The Dragon and Freckled Princess”(2021) by Mamoru Hosoda

[klaudia96art]

Belle ☺️💖💖💕

[lorienn-art]

I wanted to practice a bit some colourless techniques such as ink and screentones (I love screentones but damn that’s completely out of my comfort zone).

NSFW below . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[gyubby99]

brutally call me out based on the characters i relate to

[mango-ti]

"Belle" - French poster concept art by Les Aliens Agency

Approved posters:

[nikailustracion]

Belle

I love, love, LOVE this movie so much! I had the privilege of watching it on cinemas and it was a wonderful experience :D

DO NOT REPOST!!

[chilldeanne]

I need to talk about Belle (2021) because it emotionally destroyed me. Spoilers abound.

I love that Suzu and Kei are kind of two sides of the same coin. They both lost their moms and are having to deal with their respective traumas. For Suzu, Belle is a means to an end. She’s a way to break back in to her real life. Her purpose for Belle is not to live a different life as an impossibly beautiful, popular singer. She doesn’t buy into any of the fame or adoration because it’s not about that for her. Belle was just a way for her to finally sing and fully live her real life again. For Kei, on the other hand, Ryu is fully an escape. It’s a way to be anywhere but his real life. It’s everything he wishes he could do in the real world to protect himself. Suzu is running from her past, and Kei is running from his present. Suzu has a circle of protectors in her real life (Shinobu, her dad, her mom’s choir friends), while Kei created his AI guardians for Ryu because he doesn’t have any in real life.

I love that they mirror each other, and that it’s because Suzu has experienced trauma that Belle’s able to empathize with Ryu. Her initial reaction to him is just curiosity. She just wants to know who and why. She doesn’t immediately assume he’s a monster like everyone else does because she knows what it’s like to be a news headline. She saw a bunch of strangers on the internet talk about her mom like she was a monster so she gets it. She knows it’s bullshit. She just wants the truth, wants to know why he’s bruised, why he’s in pain. And that connection was so powerful to me.

And then to have her run to save Kei and Tomo, and do exactly what her mom did in saving that kid, and for her to fully understand her mom’s choice in that moment. It absolutely destroyed me.

I like that they took the romance out of Beauty and the Beast, and made their connection a deeper one about empathy and trauma and recognizing people in pain. I love that by saving Ryu, she also healed her own inner child. I love that Shinobu and Hiro are just there being good supportive friends the entire time continuously reminding her that someone cares, and it isn’t until she’s ready to talk that they actually do. And I love that we still got a mini-romantic storyline with Kamishin and Ruka, and I love that Ruka wasn’t a mean popular girl.

I love so much about this movie. It was also visually stunning and the music was amazing. The whale imagery was so beautiful. The visual interpretation of the internet and the "U" metaverse was so cool. And the movie was funny!! I laughed out loud multiple times.

I could go on and on about this film. It truly killed me. It devastated me but also left me hopeful and heart-warmed and inspired. It’s ultimately about the power of empathy and love and human connection, and I think it’s one of my favorite animated films of all time.