Why Pixars Up Is a Forgotten MasterpieceThe Soak2021-02-10 | If you'd like to support me, then please do consider becoming my Patreon! patreon.com/thesoak
What kind of films or tv shows or general visual media would you like to see explored next?I Wish Id Realised This Sooner About TophThe Soak2025-08-23 | If you'd like to support me, then please do consider becoming my Patreon! patreon.com/thesoak
Other videos you may enjoy: How Witches Went From Evil to Cool: youtu.be/E7fNJoqmvWk Why Pixar's Up Is a Masterpiece: youtu.be/J9zC52v1Ex4 The Character Arc That Changed Television: youtu.be/mu2m2kx-LbA The Greatest Episode of Avatar The Last Airbender: youtu.be/jeDoE8HKmzg Why We're Obsessed With Crime Stories: youtu.be/W0znt0_J9LMThe Gentle Masculinity of Anime MenThe Soak2025-06-12 | They're kind, empathetic, good at making friends, loyal, protective and unafraid to express their emotions. Meet the beautiful, soft masculinity of anime men like Luffy, Gon, Tanjiro, Naruto, Jin Woo and so many others!
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Other videos you may enjoy: How Witches Went From Evil to Cool: youtu.be/E7fNJoqmvWk Why Pixar's Up Is a Masterpiece: youtu.be/J9zC52v1Ex4 The Character Arc That Changed Television: youtu.be/mu2m2kx-LbA The Greatest Episode of Avatar The Last Airbender: youtu.be/jeDoE8HKmzg Why We're Obsessed With Crime Stories: youtu.be/W0znt0_J9LMPrincess Mononoke Is More Important Than EverThe Soak2025-04-11 | A film about two oppositional sides, a divided world, class struggle, and the value of human life in times of hardship... No it wasn't made in the 2020s, but in 1997. But Princess Mononoke still has a lot it can tell us about how we can navigate our world today.
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Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:23 Part One: To See With Unclouded Eyes 19:55 Part Two: Who Is Mononoke-Hime 27:53 Part Three: The Lies of the 1% 39:08 Part Four: Life Is For LivingThe Ghibli Lesson About LoveThe Soak2025-02-22 | Howl, like most characters in Howl's Moving Castle, is a duplicitous, lying pretender. And that's okay. Because his lies allow him to love and live freely. This video is about the lies we all need to tell to survive and how love pierces through all of them.
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Other videos you may enjoy: Why Pixar's Up Is a Masterpiece: youtu.be/J9zC52v1Ex4 Fan Theory: Joe Gardner Was a Lost Soul: youtu.be/OcxgvGhxwbA Why The Queen's Gambit Sucks & Should Have Learned From Sports Anime: youtu.be/_e1VFtHsRmU Fixing a Failure in Feminism | Wonder Woman 1984: youtu.be/MCNn7XjQV4I Toying With Expectations: Why Spider-Verse Is So Good: youtu.be/gqmBooyS0LwWhy Ghibli Succeeds Where Disney FailsThe Soak2024-12-28 | Disney films offer great morals and lessons for kids. But there's one place they fall short: showing what a kind world would look like. That's where Studio Ghibli & the Hayao Miyazaki masterpiece 'Kiki's Delivery Service' can show us how it's done.
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#studioghibli #disney #hayaomiyazaki Other videos you may enjoy: Why Pixar's Up Is a Masterpiece: youtu.be/J9zC52v1Ex4 Fan Theory: Joe Gardner Was a Lost Soul: youtu.be/OcxgvGhxwbA Why The Queen's Gambit Sucks & Should Have Learned From Sports Anime: youtu.be/_e1VFtHsRmU Fixing a Failure in Feminism | Wonder Woman 1984: youtu.be/MCNn7XjQV4I Toying With Expectations: Why Spider-Verse Is So Good: youtu.be/gqmBooyS0Lw
Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:55 - Part One: A Loving Supportive Community 18:05 - Part Three: The Lack of Good & Evil 27:58 - Part Four: Inside & OutAnimes Greatest First EpisodeThe Soak2024-10-22 | Haikyu!! has the greatest pilot/first episode of any anime ever. The the character building, the metaphors, the subtle explanation of philosophies. It is simply perfect. Let me convince you why.
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SEIZURE WARNING - Flashing yellow frames at 18:56. Apologies for that - I've missed this in one of the re-renderings of the video and due to the long, painful legal battle I had to go through to even make this video public, I cannot reupload at this point.
References: 1 - history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches#section_1 2 - Why Do Witches Wear Pointy Hats? The History Behind the Costume 3 - Eric Laurent Maranda, Victoria M. Lim, Richa Taneja et al | Witches and Warts 4 - Meg Hafdahl & Kelly Florence | The Science of Witchcraft: The Truth Behind Sabrina, Maleficent, Glinda, and More of Your Favourite Fictional Witches p. 12 5 - Beth Spencer | Samantha every witch way but lose 6 - Beth Spencer | Samantha every witch way but lose 7 - Bewitched Again: Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television, 1996-2011 | Julie D. O’Reilly p. 18 8 - Susan Orlean | Girl Power 9 - Sarah Projansky & Leah R. Vande Berg | Sabrina The Teenage…? Girls, Witches, Mortals, and the Limitations of Prime-Time Feminism p.15 10 - Susan Orlean | Girl Power 11 - Sarah Projansky & Leah R. Vande Berg | Sabrina The Teenage…? Girls, Witches, Mortals, and the Limitations of Prime-Time Feminism p.28 12 - Catriona Miller | ‘I Just Want to Be Normal Again’ Power and Gender in Charmed p.67 13 - Helen Berger | What is Wicca? An expert on modern witchcraft explains 14 - Michaela D.E. Meyer | ‘Something Wicca This Way Comes’ Audience Interpretation of a Marginalized Religious Philosophy on Charmed | Investigating Charmed, The Magic Power of TV p.10 15 - Susan Latta | Reclaiming Women’s Language for Power and Agency The Charmed Ones as Magical Rhetors p. 20 16 - Susan Latta | Reclaiming Women’s Language for Power and Agency The Charmed Ones as Magical Rhetors p. 19 17 - Investigating Charmed, The Magic Power of TV p.2 18 - Investigating Charmed, The Magic Power of TV p.4-5
Beth Spencer | Samantha every witch way but lose https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/samantha-every-witch-way-but-lose-20050625-ge0ejk.html
Bewitched Again: Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television, 1996-2011 | Julie D. O’Reilly Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television | Edited by Elyce Rae Helford
Meg Hafdahl & Kelly Florence | The Science of Witchcraft: The Truth Behind Sabrina, Maleficent, Glinda, and More of Your Favourite Fictional Witches
Investigating Charmed, The Magic Power of TV | Edited by Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler Sarah Projansky & Leah R. Vande Berg | Sabrina The Teenage…? Girls, Witches, Mortals, and the Limitations of Prime-Time Feminism
The Wandering Hat: Iterations of the Medieval Jewish Pointed Cap | Naomi Lubrich Hermione Granger Saves the World | Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts | Edited by Christopher E. Bell
Modern witchcraft: Empowerment, feminism, and rituals | Kennedy Ryan https://www.brandeis.edu/stories/2023/october/witchcraft.html
The Rest Is History Podcast Episode 26 - Witches | Suzannah Lipscomb, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook
Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:25 Part One - Where Did It All Begin? 11:11 Part Two - Early Representations 23:44 Part Three - The 90s: The Witching Decade 31:27 Part Four - Charmed: Taking Witching Seriously 44:42 Part Five - Modern WitchcraftAnimes Obsession With Europe: A Brief HistoryThe Soak2024-03-31 | Have you ever wondered why so many anime are set in Europe or have European aesthetics? Well, I took a long journey to find out why.
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Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:45 The History of Japan & Anime 5:30 The 1960s & Early Anime 10:03 Heidi & The Rise of Studio Ghibli 17:45 The Modern Era of Anime 21:55 Conclusion
Footnotes: 1. Frederick Schodt, Manga! Manga!, p. 92 2. Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point: 1979-1996 p.137 3. Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point: 1979-1996 p.137-8 4. Dani Cavallaro | The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki p. 37
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#studioghibli #anime #frierenZuko Alone: Avatar’s Greatest EpisodeThe Soak2023-10-26 | This was the best, most perfect episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender
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