It isn't because I think protagonists have to follow a certain model! Literature can be about anyone it pleases. But this is anime, where the main character is almost always the most beautiful. Disney movies do the same thing, with two exceptions (Beaty and the Beast, the Hunchback of Notre Dame), and they even go a step further by making all the villains ugly. Western movies do the same thing! It's a visual shortcut, like rain. A pretty face doesn't guarentee a likeable character, but it does make it easier to like a characer.
That said, this is Miyazaki and I should have had more faith. I'd like to point out that Sophie was by no means an ugly old woman. She was cute.
XD I don't like it's being shallow to expect anime to be pretty.
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It isn't because I think protagonists have to follow a certain model! Literature can be about anyone it pleases. But this is anime, where the main character is almost always the most beautiful. Disney movies do the same thing, with two exceptions (Beaty and the Beast, the Hunchback of Notre Dame), and they even go a step further by making all the villains ugly. Western movies do the same thing! It's a visual shortcut, like rain. A pretty face doesn't guarentee a likeable character, but it does make it easier to like a characer.
That said, this is Miyazaki and I should have had more faith. I'd like to point out that Sophie was by no means an ugly old woman. She was cute.
XD I don't like it's being shallow to expect anime to be pretty.