How boy bands and anime inspired Pixar magical

Director Domee Shi is excited as she discusses one of her favorite scenes from her first feature: when Meilin Lee, her 13-year-old protagonist, “goes down her lusty drawing spiral under her bed with her sketchbook.”


After regarding a mindless doodle of a boy she had drawn in the corner of her homework, Mei suddenly gets up from her desk, rolls under her bed and starts frantically drawing picture after picture of her neighborhood crush. The spell is broken only by a knock on her door by her mother.


It’s just one of the glimpses into the world of nerdy tween girls that Shi was thrilled to bring to life for “Turning Red,” the 25th feature from Pixar animation and the first directed solely by a woman. It launches Friday on Disney+.


“I haven’t seen that before in a lot of movies, but it is an experience that, if you talk to any female artists, they have had,” said Shi, who recalls during a recent video call having secret sketchbooks of her own while she was growing up . “I just want people to discover that girls can be as weird and pervy and strange as boys can be with this movie.”


“Turning Red” follows Mei (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) as she wakes up one morning to discover that because of a secret family quirk, she has turned into a large red panda. The transformation is not permanent but is triggered when she feels intense emotions. That would be an inconvenience for any teenager, but Mei is also blessed with an overprotective mother, Ming (Sandra Oh), who has no problem embarrassing her in front of her peers.


She’ll even show Mei’s secret mer-teen drawings to the exact cute boy who inspired them.


“I like to think that Mei, in all of her innocence, doesn’t know how to draw the lower half of a boy,” said Shi, who insists that a lot of tween girls have a mermaid phase. “So she draws [him with] a mermaid tail, because it’s easier to imagine.”


Although Walt Disney Studios as a whole has started producing more inclusive animated features, including “Moana” (2016), “Coco” (2017), “Soul” (2020), “Raya and the Last Dragon” (2021) and “Encanto” (2021), a story centered on a modern teenage girl is a first for the historically boy-centric Pixar.


As she was wrapping up work on her Academy Award-winning 2018 short “Bao” at Pixar, Shi knew she wanted her next film to be a girl’s coming-of-age story. The Chinese Canadian director describes “Turning Red” as “the most personal and the weirdest” of the feature film ideas she pitched to the studio.


“I pitched it as a girl going through magical puberty,” said Shi. Although elements of the story and even the mechanics of Mei’s transformation evolved over the course of the production, “it was always going to be a girl going through magical puberty and uncontrollably poofing into this giant, red, hormonal creature.”


Set in and around Toronto’s Chinatown in 2002, “Turning Red” is a celebration of teenage girls, their experiences and their interests. This meant channeling Shi’s own teen interests, including anime and boy bands. Below, she discusses how four key influences helped shape the unique expression of “Turning Red.”


Overlord Anime’s Second Season 4


The live-streamed “Overlord IV Special” premiered a second promotional video for the Overlord season 4 anime. The video also announces the anime’s July premiere date. Along with Studio Madhouse returning, the original cast will return.


The illustrator, so-bin, said that the 10th volume of the novel (their favorite) is finally being animated at the time of this announcement. The franchise will also have an anime film project that will cover the Holy Kingdom Arc of the books.


The Overlord series is based on Kugane Maruyama’s Overlord light novel series. Funimation streamed the anime series as it aired in Japan, with the company releasing an English dub soon after. The second anime series premiered in January 2018 and streamed on Crunchyroll as it aired. The third anime series started soon after the second one ended in  July 2018.


The Overlord anime has also spawned a number of stories on other mediums. This includes a mobile game, a manga series, and a short series titled Isekai Quartet. Each of these has also seen a newly announced update during the “Overlord IV Special.”

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Kugane Maruyama began the original Overlord novels in 2010 online through Kadokawa’s Enterbrain. Soon after, so-bin started publishing and drawing illustrations for the physical copies in 2012. As of now, Yen Press is releasing the novel series in North America with over 2.5 million copies in circulation.


The franchise’s story takes place in the year 2138, where online gaming is the new normal. Yggdrasil, a popular online game, is shut down without notice. This leaves the main character Momonga stuck. As he decides not to sign off, Momonga is now trapped within Yggdrasil with its many NPCs, who are starting to gain sentience. With no other choice, he takes on the identity of  ‘the most powerful and feared wizard,’ Ainz Ooal Gown. Now with his new companions, Ainz sets out to see if anyone else from the real world is trapped in the game with him.

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