#Kirikou and the Sorceress

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Karaba la sorcière

[the-blue-fairie]

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland It remains fascinating to me that, in the US, the film Kirikou and the Sorceress is kinda obscure and only available in a blurry print and old non-anamorphic DVDs while in other countries it's just... a children's film? Like, a restoration was on the Criterion Channel for a few months some years ago, but that's been gone for ages now.

It's because of the completely nonsexual animated nudity that's so matter-of-fact within the film and normal among the culture it portrays that it becomes irrelevant. And some people might say, "Well, if it's irrelevant then they could have just censored it for the US release," but like... that would have been a loss to the film.

Like, it's all very well for people to say things like "Nudity in and of itself is nonsexual" but having a film where the nudity is so mundane you might even forget about it (or at least be forced to confront your own cultural biases regarding nudity) shows that.

This is the way these people live. It is ordinary. The film doesn't try to otherize its characters because of it.

It just is.

And that makes it integral to the film.

I only saw the film for the first time when it appeared on the Criterion Channel, but I feel like if I'd grown up with it (there would have been no chance of that; my family would have confiscated the DVD), I'd have had a less complicated emotional journey regarding my body.

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[ariel-seagull-wings]

@thealmightyemprex @piterelizabethdevries @themousefromfantasyland

So here's my turn: these are my top 10 Hottest Animated Guys

10. Uncle (Kirikou and the Sorceress)

09. Little Creek (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)

08. Clopin Trouillefou (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

07. Caleb (W.I.T.C.H)

06. Kanon (Saint Seiya)

05. Aragorn (Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings)

04. Prince Lir (The Last Unicorn)

03. Asterix and Obelix (the Asterix franchise)

02. Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore and Peter Venkman (The Real Ghostbusters)

01. Hank McCoy a.k.a Beast (X-Men: The Animated Series/97; X-Men: Evolution; Wolverine and the X-Men)

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Fairytales in French cinema

Pictures from "Kirikou et la Sorcière" (Kirikou and the Witch/Sorceress) by Michel Ocelot.

The mid-20th century was marked by Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast... Jacques Demy's Donkeyskin left its print on the latter half of the 20th century... And Michel Ocelot's Kirikou burst out of the dawn of the 21st century. As I said before, this movie could be compared in term of scope, effect and popularity, to what The Lion King was in America... (except this movie's better :p)

Adapting a West African folktale while sharing modern messages about issues such as the power of tyrants or the nature of discrimination, using all sorts of traditional African artstyles for its design ranging from Ancient Egypt to the Benin, this movie enormous success (it even was adapted as a world-renowned live-action musical) completely redefined the animation industry in France in the early 21st century.

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Azur et Asmar - Michel Ocelot (2006)

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Do you know this baby?

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Prince Ashitaka is canonically Emishi.

Kirikou is canonically Indigenous. He is from a small West African village, and the story pulls from West African cultures, specifically Senegalese and Guinean.

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[africanwhore]

Kirikou and the Sorceress / Kirikou et la Sorcière (1998) dir. Michel Ocelot

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Every once in a while I remember that my first exposure to the word fetish was in Kirikou and the Sorceress where Karaba's servants are called Fetishes so I was really confused the first time someone used it in reference to sex

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268th edit and inspired by @airasora redesign for Jasmine for her Mx character. I had fun making Kida’s alleged character’s notes ( @little-bloodied-angel and I are unsure if accurate or someone wrote it up as some traits do not add up) and I hope you all like this redesign. Yes, Melanesian people can have naturally blonde hair. Shout out to @little-bloodied-angel for introducing me the animated movie Kirikou and the Sorceress (which I was able to watch for free on Amazon). Shoutout to @thenamelessdoll for her post too that inspired me.

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Just finished watching Kirikou and the Sorceress for the second time and this time round I recognised Karaba’s serpent as a Gaboon Viper :)) knowledge really does open up your world

Also the textures used throughout the film are wonderful. Only Mononoke (series) gets close in terms of what KelS accomplished there.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@thealmightyemprex @themousefromfantasyland

The movie is getting fanart! Karaba my love!

The thorn from the back of Karaba the Sorceress

from the movie Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)

directed by Michel Ocelot

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Kirikou et la Sorcière / Michel Ocelot / France, Belgium & Luxembourg / 1998