The Evening Herald, Ottawa, Kansas, June 6, 1904
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The Evening Herald, Ottawa, Kansas, June 6, 1904
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Girl version vs Boy version
Magical Girl Anime from Spring 2011 - Spring 2018)
(excluding spinoffs, sequels & reboots from already existing properties)
*suspicious squinting*
…How many of these are worth looking into, and how many of them are Secret Dark Anime or Gross?
Roughly 16 of them (give or take depending on your tolerance level)
But all of them have their charming points to them I think. (except maybe Schoolgirl Strikers unless you’re a fan of the game)
Flip Flappers, Houkago no Pleiades, Little Witch Academia, Kuromajo-san ga Tooru, Mary & the Witch’s Flower, Pop in Q, Flying Witch, & Urahara are all good & have happy endings
Urahara has a twist in the middle and goes to some dark places, but the last chunk of episodes are so silly. Like I know a lot of people jumped ship then but really missed out on a scooby doo chase scene in the finale.
Also, please watch Pop in Q.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but pre-rendered CGI is usually chopped into pieces that are rendered separately on different computers (so that they can be done at the same time) and spliced together… So, that would mean that they forgot or otherwise failed to activate the license on at least one of the computers they used to render the cutscene, or someone updated their computer’s version to a version not covered by the license they had.
Just checked with my copy, and it is actually there. Here’s a better image for those that can’t see it clearly in the Twitter photo:
the 2002 broadway revival of into the woods was so unnecessarily extra lmao
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Disney Princesses in Concept Dresses
Illustrator and graphic designer Carlos García Romo drew reimagined pictures of Disney Princesses in gowns from the concept art for their films. So far, he has done four of the Disney Princesses in this style!
Settling the Aladdin discourse
Can all the misinformed Americans and Brits pipe down for a second? I’m rolling out the historical carpet from the perspective of someone who’s actually grown up in the Middle East and why none of this matters.
I heard Aladdin or as I knew it, as ‘The Magic Lamp of Alaa el-Din’. It is one of the most popular tales from the region, next to Sindbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and but guess what?
It’s a trainwreck of a tale, so is Disney’s adaptation. Why? Because it makes no sense, culturally or historically. Why? It’s not authentic. It’s not actually a real part of the stories Schehrezade/Shahrazad told to King Shahrayar in One Thousand and One Nights.
It was added in by a European translator, Antoine Galland, then later accepted as part of canon.
BRIEF HISTORY LESSON:
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of folktales presented in a story-within-a-story context. King Shahrayar of Persia’s wife cheated on him, he then had her and her lover put to death, but her infidelity drove him mad with paranoia. He decided to marry every virgin in the kingdom them put her to death come morning so she wouldn’t have the chance to cheat on him.
Alas, he ran out of virgins, all except for his grand-vizier’s daughter Shahrazad. She agreed to marry the king, assuring her father she had a plan. After their wedding night, Shahrazad began the distraction plot to end all plots. She asked the king if he wanted to hear a story and spent the whole night entertaining him with it, making sure to end with the start of another tale. Once he’s ask “What happened?” she’d tell him, “Wait for tomorrow,” and restart the same process.
She kept him on the episodic hook for a thousand and one nights, spinning so many tales and retelling many until she finally ran out. But, by the time she did, they had developed a good relationship, had children, and he no longer cared about his kill-come-sunrise rule, and they lived happily ever after.
So, why is Aladdin a trainwreck? For starters, it’s set in CHINA. And China is for some reason ruled by a sultan. Sultans are the titles of Ottoman kings, as in Turks. Aladdin is recruited by a sorcerer/Jafar from the Maghreb, which is typically used to refer to Morocco (literally called El Maghreb in Arabic) or all of NA sans Egypt. The Princess is called Badroulbadour not Jasmine, and while she has an Old Arabic name ‘badr al badour / full moon of full moons’, she is described as being from the FAR EAST. She was never an Arab, neither was Aladdin!
Can you tell this was made up by a confused foreigner?
So, we have a Turkish king in China, Aladdin is Chinese, Jafar is Moroccan and Jasmine is Japanese. It’s the same in the Disney movie. The style of the characters and background in Disney’s Aladdin is unmistakably an Persian-Indian fusion with some Ottoman sprinkled in. The concept of a genie/djinni is literally the only Arab part of the tale.
1. Jasmine’s headpiece/tiara, appearance, and pet tiger point to Indian. But she wears harem pants/şalvar, which are Turkish (Indian version shalwar).
Actually, she’s a toned-down version of a belly-dancer. Belly dancing is practiced from Egypt to Lebanon to Persia and India, it was spread by the Ottomans.
2. The Sultan is styled like a merge between a Sikh maharajah (Indian) and a sultan (Turkish).
3. The magic carpet is also an Indian concept (Prince Husain, son of the Sultan of the Indies in OTaON retrieves a magic carpet from India.)
4. The sultan’s palace is based on the Taj Mahal
5. The Genie/djinni is the lone Arabic concept.
Here’s what lots of Westerners don’t get. All of these cultures have bled on one another. From the Maghreb to Egypt, to the Levant, to Turkey, to the Arabian Peninsula, to Iraq, to Persia and India we all share so many traits because of trade, history or, you guessed it, invasion. Cultural exchange is pretty common, I grew up with a lot of Persian stories, Indian products and Bollywood movies in theatres, leftover Turkish culture and food from Ottomans, Arab culture from prior invasions, interaction and language, and so, so many Lebanese pop stars.
It’s actually pretty smart to amass a cast from different parts of the Near, Middle and South East, so to include everyone who likely grew up with Shahrazad and her many, many tales.
If there’s anyone you should have a problem with, it’s Will Smith as the genie. It’s pretty transparent how you all ignored how this is the second time a black man plays the genie (first on Once Upon A Time) but sling hate at Naomi Scott for being Indian.
Oh, and Disney fucked up by blaring Arabian Nights at the start and end of the movie, because One Thousand and One Nights is NOT called Arabian Nights. It’s called Alf Leyla w Leyla - literally ‘A Thousand Nights and One’.
It’s a collection of Persian, Indian, Egyptian, Arabic, Mesopotamian and Jewish folklore that was compiled in Arabic.
Aladdin is being played by the Egyptian Mena Massoud, Jasmine is by the Indian Naomi Scott and the rest of the cultures involved should be cast.
Oh, and to all people saying Naomi is ‘too light’ and ‘half-whitewashing’. Take your racial purity and stick it up your nose. Middle Eastern, Indian and North African girls come in all shades, even if both sets of grandparents are native to the region.
PS. Avan Jogia is seriously out there saying him playing Aladdin would have ‘been wrong’ because ‘he should be Middle Eastern’ but he had no problem playing King Tut, who is EGYPTIAN? As in Middle Eastern??
Quit your virtue-signaling, Rami Malek is still the only Egyptian to ever play one in Western media.
Anyway, POINT MADE.
Series: Vampire Princess Miyu Artist: Kakinouchi Narumi Publication: Animedia Magazine (02/1999) Source: Scanned from personal collection
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Quest For The Queen - Storyboards by John Pomeroy
Tink presenting Queen Clarion with a birthday gift
A raid of the Evil Fairy Zarina’s Orchid Henchmen stealing the rare Blue Fairy Dust.
In a battle to overtake The Orchids Queen Clarion takes a ZAP of Zarina’s power to protect Tink.
The Fairy Ministers informs Clarion that she is gravely ill & unless they can recover the precious dust she will die.
Tink & friends take off on a quest to recover the dust.
Zarina now using her new Blue Dust Power
After a heroic struggle and battle with Tink & friends, she is overthrown.
Tinkerbell reunited with her healed & grateful Queen.
Heck, they really should have given us this instead of Pirate Fairy
Anyone know who bought these? They were under Peter Pan return to never land on worth point and were sold in 2017. They are NOT from Peter Pan return to never land. They are from a scrapped TinkerBell movie. Looking to buy a clear scan of them from whoever bought them or the original if possible. Thanks.
The original intro to the Disney Fairies website
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Does anyone know what the 3rd Advance Reading Copy of the third book look like. I’ve never seen a listing for it online before. Was there one even made?
I like hoarding things.
Anyways anyone know who made this one? Doesn’t say anywhere on it and where I got it from didn’t either. Thx.
The logo is also Tinker Bell Ring of Belief styled still….
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Tinker Bell and the Mysterious Winter Woods / Secret of the Wings - artist currently unknown