#matangi

[ienchanted]

Meet Matangi, the new Moana 2 vilan.🌊🐚

[jukari91]

The art of Moana 2 Matangi

[cartoonjessie]

[synergysilhouette]

Disney concept art I fell in love with ("Disney, let's fight" edition)

Anna's blue and orange dresses, Yokai's art style, Blasian Wasabi, Phillip's outfit, the dragon gem's hideaway, Matangi's abstract/realistic cloak, and the Olympian's reverie in particular are art pieces I love here.

[dracarishit]

i don't think i made myself clear... I NEED MORE OF THEM TOGETHER!

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

Appropriate to have Matangi's animal motif be fruit bats. Not just because what initially appears to be a menacing villain actually turns out to be benevolent if a bit chaotic (related how when we first see them from Maui's pov they are a menacing swarm; then when Moana actually meets one up close, it's just a goofy little shit).

But, even if it's leaning towards Eurasian motifs here, there's also the fact that flying foxes (and Matangi by extension) look like... well... foxes. Which fits in with how foxes are known to be wily and cunning tricksters.

[jmr-observingfromafar]

ngl Matangi in Moana 2 was kinda gay. like just a little gay. i mean my girl is a "crazy cat bat lady", calls Moana "babe" twice in her song (the way i audibly gasped in the theater when i heard it lol), and is like sooooo queer coded i love it sm. she just gives off the vibes of sapphic-coded older woman who's played as suave and confident and makes the mc just go "haguphuk" and we all know if this was old disney they would've leaned so hard into that. but i could not have been the only one to keep catching Matangi poking her buttons, the hand on her chin in one scene, just being a total fucking vibe like please i know what you are. that whole scene felt real gay and don't think im leaving Moana out of this one. she is gay, i don't make the rules. i'm stickin with this hc no one can stop me from making Matangi the cool lesbian aunt and NO ONE will stop me from turning Moana gay (Auli'i Cravalho knows what she's doing)

ok im gonna be so real for a second i was simping HARD over Moana's character design in this movie.... like even more than baby me was dying during the first one... like this girl is just- oh my gosh. baby-gay me from 8 years ago would have actually DIED if she'd seen this Moana. it's almost embarrassing how down bad i was during that movie like she's so fucking pretty i wasn't ready for her design. like girls are just too much sometimes, i cant cope .

also side tangent but the lazy ass rewrite of Moana 2 from its planned version as a Disney+ series into a freaking MOVIE was just- so painfully obvious. like they didn't even try reworking it. the structure of the whole movie is painfully episodic and it was just so blatantly shoved into movie format without any care for the integrity of basic movie versus tv structure, so the char dev and pacing was just so rough. like what were the writers even thinkingggg. pretty disappointing but that's ok i have the fandom to make me feel better (moana fan art save me....)

[ifthesewings--couldfly]

Matangi Concept Art by Kevin Nelson