#waruwaru

[larajeandoodles]

It’s taken me ever so long to be brave enough to make Ghibli art, because Ghibli is IT and I knew I couldn’t do it justice. Well, here we are! I hope I’m worthy!

Ever wondered how many layers I use? This one had 8 total:

[koholint]

http://web.archive.org/web/20040813032837/http://www.yeah.ne.jp/~waruwaru/gal/index.htm

[pacificleo]

The Boy And The Heron : Breakdown

Watching the movie, I like struggled connecting to the emotional themes. The longer the movie went on, I thought it became, through the character of the granduncle, an allegory for Miyazaki and the future collapse of Ghibli.

For one thing, the Granduncle has become the god of this place due to a cosmic fluke – a meteor striking, and his cultivating of it. This could be a metaphor for building a successful artistic studio, which both depends on the head artist's temperament, but also on chance and the right conditions. And the drama of the granduncle is, having built this place, finding a worthy successor.

Second, the parakeets. The parakeets receive so much attention in the movie; they are possibly the main antagonists. Like the other birds, they are invasive the species that the granduncle introduced to the magic world. They are defined by the their bright colors and amoral drive to eat. They want to eat Mahito, the "new" artist, who might inherit the world/studio. But Miyazaki takes effort to show the parakeets not as malicious, but simply solely driven by the drive for consumption. Also, they are not scary or ugly, but colorful and cheerful.

In my interpretation, the parakeets stand in for the drive of capitalism that the artist brings into the world of creativity in order to make a successful business. They are colorful, loud, and hungry. He doesn't like them, but they are necessary – but also, their presence risks consuming what is most precious about this world, from the waruwaru's to the next artist/creator.

And when the parakeet stage their protest, the big ask they seem to make is for... Himi to be successor, not Mahito (I'm a little fuzzy on this). I bring this up because in this sequence, Himi is carried in what looks like a glass coffin. Which, if it's intentional, is a callback to Disney's first animated feature film – Snow White. Now this may be a stretch, but a possible meaning is that the Parakeets (business interest) would prefer a safer, Disney-like animation studio than one driven by a character like Mahito – someone with a conscience motivated by passionate feelings. (The flaw in this interpretation is that Himi as a character is more like Mahito than not – passionate and principled.)

In the end, if this works as an allegory for Miyazaki and Ghibli, I wonder if it also contains it's own grief and self-criticism. Mahito doesn't take over the kingdom. He hesitates, and King Parakeet (short sighted business interests) moves faster, and in attempt to save the world/studio, destroys it. But Mahito hesitates because his loyalties are not just to this creative world, but also to his mother, and to his family in the real world. In essence, it is his sense of responsibilities to others that leads away from running the magic world and back to the real world.

Miyazaki is a man whose very open about his flaws. He has chosen an artistic life, and his wife and children have endured living with a man for whom they were always second. Hayao has spoken of this, and his son has also spoken of his negative feelings for his dad (watch Goro's patricidal Earthsea movie to take a peak into that pyschodrama). I wonder, then, if Mahito choosing the real world of family over running this magic kingdom is his character's final victory, and if this is Miyazaki's self-condemnation for choosing art over relationships.

Annakir on Reddit Thread about "The Boy and the Heron

[beautinesia-blog]

A private beach in Malang, Waru Waru beach, Sempu island, East Java, Indonesia Photo by: IG @andrianlagi10

[leostar-regalius]

Ōraōra fruit- aura arua

Kōzui kōzui- flood flood

Taiyō no taiyō - sun sun 

Omuniomuni-omni omni

Hebihebi -snake snake

Mokuzai mokuzai

Chikyū chikyū - earth earth

Suisui-water water

Ningyō no ningyō- doll doll

Waruwaru-evil evil

Shinzō no shinzō - 

Idenshi idenshi-gene gene

Bagu no bagu - bug bug

(putting the cursed fruit list up, also the bug bug fruit is like the plasmid from bioshock, 2 are blank because i forget what they were and they don't translate,removed some of the ones that are canon to the series already)

[vanilla0chinchilla]

Waruwaru.

[elusivefagguette]

also i might start just using ww instead of lol