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my piece for @mononoke-zine 🌸

#mononoke #kayo #shino #setsuko ichikawa #o-chou #it’s been more than a year since I drew this #I’m glad I can post it now lol #mononoke 2007 #zines #my art

My sweet beautiful girls they did no wrong, precious as gems, the world just wasn't ready for them so it had to corrupt them

I love them so much 💔💔

#flxxdedpost #mononoke #mononoke 2007 #mononoke 2024 #ochou mononoke #lady kitagawa #kitagawa mononoke #setsuko ichikawa #setsuko mononoke #especially Ochou bro I relate to her so much #I also love Kayo but she was never corrupt lol ❤️‍🩹

Finished Mononoke (2007), and definitely I really liked it.

As for the final arc, the bakeneko one, it might sound strange but I really liked how Setsuko’s death is “sexualized”.

When her boss assaults her he is not trying to SA her. He is trying to impose himself physically to her so she stops threatening him professionally and socially. Yet, in their struggle, her bra (or camisole, but very clearly a piece of underwear) is revealed and he ends up between her legs while holding her above the bridge.

It is a very sexualized position and it works so well for what the story is trying to tell. Her boss is assaulting her/trying to destroy her article not only because he is corrupted. He is doing that to her because she is a woman.

Setsuko is almost right when she accuses him of being jealous of her. He is slightly jealous, but most of all he despises her. Because she is a woman. He dislikes that she is trying her hand at “serious” journalism (he wants to send her back to the lifestyle rubric of the newspaper), he probably dislikes that she dresses in an androgynous fashion (the fashion of the 20-30’s was often criticized for being too masculine and the anime drew our attention to this fact), etc. and is hoping that life is going to bring her back to her natural place without him intervening. When life doesn’t (because there is no such thing as a natural place for women), and she manages to uncover a bigger scandal than he could ever do, he starts sabotaging her not only because he is corrupted, but also to bring her back to her “proper” place himself.

Therefore, framing his physical assault of her the same way as SA makes that facet of their dynamic completely explicit. Setsuko is not only killed as a journalist threatening the statu quo would be, she is also killed as a woman threatening the statu quo (here the patriarchy).

Showing that through the choreography of the fight was such a clever choice.

(Also there is something to be said about her rage fusing with the ones of cats being run over by trains to create the mononoke. Guess who else was considered as acceptable collateral damage to preserve the statu quo (here trains arriving on time)?)

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