What the myth?! Part 2: How myths influence modern storytelling.
The article was written on March 4th(2020). No judging. For all his movies, Hayao Miyazaki takes inspiration from myths. He usually doesn’t take a character from a myth as it is, but she merges the figure from the myth with his own ideas, creating a completely new character in the end. That’s why his movies are so interesting to study — you see a shadow of a Japanese mythical figure, but then it vanishes and appears to be a completely unique character. I’m not an anthropologist, I wrote this post from a character designer perspective...