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Inktober Day 4 Taeko Okajima

There is a little hidden gem called Only Yesterday that has to be my favorite film I’ve ever seen. I kin Taeko, I love her so much

[pixuandrea]

Si hoy no sale bien, siempre nos queda mañana. Si mañana no va bien, será pasado mañana. Si pasado mañana no es bueno, será al día siguiente. Siempre habrá un mañana, da igual cuánto se demore.

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Taeko Okajima from Only Yesterday.

Original Drawing Date: October 27 2022.

The one on the left is Taeko on at her 27 years, the one on the right is Taeko when she was 10 years old.

This is an underrated Ghibli movie, I feel like nobody ever talks about it! But I am changing that!

Taeko is a woman who is 27 years old, she has never lived outside of Tokyo, she has a decent job at a company, one day she decides that she wants to take some days off to finally go out of the city for once, she goes to a small town where she stays on a farm with a family, throughout the movie she recalls many things she lived back when she was 10 years old, and how the things she experienced back then still have an impact later on her life.

The segments of the movie where she is 10 years old are actually very interesting, especially seeing them on contrast with her 27 year old self. Usually we underestimate the opinion of kids, I don't know why we so quickly disregard their opinions, I don't know why are we so harsh on kids, when we were kids we used to believe that adults have all the answers, but as we grow up we feel as lost as we did back when we were little.

Taeko at times want to silent her 10 year old self, and at times she remembers mistakes she made when he was 10 years old and she still tortures herself for those mistakes. The movie explains us that we should always listen to the kid inside us, and it also teaches us to forgive the little kid we used to be, we should tell ourselves "don't worry, you were just a kid, you didn't know at the time that things would go this way" you should tell your kid self all the reassuring things that you needed.

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Let’s put on some World Hoppers

I sometimes have to take in some piece of media or another to process my feelings on a real event, especially by watching someone else feel a thing that I have trouble giving myself permission to feel. It's why my favorite film is Omoide Poro Poro a.k.a. Only Yesterday; even before I knew what it was about, it gave me countless opportunities to feel things I needed permission to feel, be it a sense of loss for a girl childhood (or just a less traumatic childhood) I never had, or a wish to have something I hadn't been told I could want. Makoto Kino is a tough girl, tall and socially ostracized; she is so tall that there are no school uniforms in her size, and as such she stands out despite genuine efforts and wishes to not be seen as strange or different. She is an orphan, and lives alone, and has missed out on many normal experiences of childhood. She is called boyish, because she can fight very well, and because she is not afraid to do so when it is right to do so. She also has a very vulnerable heart. From her earliest introduction, Makoto is tough, yet also the walking wounded, heartbroken and in recovery yet unwilling to see anyone else suffer needlessly. If Makoto is allowed to have a broken heart from being deceived and trampled by one who she loved, I am too, but I needed to experience it by seeing someone else feel it, because I do not trust my own feelings, my own motives, or my own merits. No small amount of that's the OCD. I am simply driven to disbelieve that I am not, at heart, awful.* My heart was recently trampled, in such a way that it was hard not to believe that it was simply hir response to my own terrible faults. None sie would tell me, none I knew, but with a sudden sharp cruelty that implied that simply being around me was so hazardous that sie couldn't bear even those sie knew to be around me, let it endanger hir or everyone else. I could barely dare feel anything but self-loathing from it myself. But when it happens to Makoto, it's different. When it happens to other people, even or especially real people, it's different. I can look at that person and say, why should that matter? Who's perfect? Nobody I know deserves this. * Another thing Omoide Poro Poro has: Taeko ultimately feels like a monster and a fraud, and that anyone who knew what she's *really* like would know it. It doesn't help that she's certainly not known well enough yet; her send-off is pickled onions, somehow the culmination of every food she's told she should want and doesn't. That would be her going-away gift, and is perhaps a sign that she shouldn't leave, but is certainly a sign that she's staying with people who barely know her. Addendum: I bet I could find a lot of this in Anne Of Green Gables, too. With trivial ease, I bet. Yup, right there, chapter 22, Anne returns from tea with Mrs. Allen so very impressed with her and saying to Marilla that she can’t be naturally good like some people are, and will never be able to make as good a go of being a good person as others. A natural extension of the history she describes in chapter 5, where anything bad that happens to her isn’t really such a big deal, and “Oh, they meant to be—I know they meant to be just as good and kind as possible.”

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STUDIO GHIBLI + FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTERS ↳ Taeko Okajima, Only Yesterday (おもひでぽろぽろ) dir. Isao Takahata.

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🌸 taeko okajima 🌸

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Love this idea!!

There are so many others I would love to mention but I don't have space in the poll. I will shout them out here though!

Katara (Avatar the Last Airbender), Ms. Shitataare (Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star), Chris (Brave Little Toaster), Lilo (Lilo and Stitch), Nani (Lilo and Stitch), Vaire (Tolkien's Legendarium), Pepa Madrigal (Encanto), Madoka Kaname (Madoka Magica, Alina Gray (Magia Record), Onpu Segawa (Ojamajo Doremi), Jenny (Melody Time), Sonia (Make Mine Music), Akira Yukishiro (Revue Starlight), Sasorina (Heartcatch Precure), Goldberry (Tolkien's Legendarium), Nanami Kiryuu (Revolutionary Girl Utena), Rachel (Fantasia 2000), Barbie (Barbie Movie), Taeko Okajima (Only Yesterday), Kiki (Kiki's Delivery Service), Chihiro (Spirited Away), Anacondy (Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!), Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (Tolkien's Legendarium), Joy (Inside Out), Dark Dream (Yes! Pretty Cure 5: Kagami no Kuni no Miracle Daibouken!), Darla Dimple (Cats Don't Dance), Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Meilin Lee (Turning Red), Chito and Yuuri (Girls Last Tour), Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid), Teto Kasane (Utauloid), GUMI (Vocaloid), Michiru and Kaoru Kiryuu (Futari wa Precure Splash Star)

I will tag whomever is reading this! :D

fav female character tag game 🌷🌙

let’s be honest, my friends, women always need more appreciation. every type of them. so, in this tag game, I am going to stick with that theme and share some love of my favorite female characters of all time.

Rules: Make a poll of your top four favorite characters of all time and see who is the favorite amongst your followers!

tagged by the loveliest @briarroses 💖💖💖 Thank you! Tags are so encouraging!

soft tag: @briarroses (back at ya! next four favorites) @shadowqueenjude @sonics-atelier @teddyhoneybear @kateprincessofbluewhales @praetorqueenreyna @sonics-atelier and @tamlindair

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Only Yesterday

A common "working woman," Taeko Okajima, holds a job at a significant enterprise situated in a bustling metropolis. After embarking on a lengthy hiatus to the countryside of Yamagata Prefecture, her brother-in-law's birthplace, her expedition triggers recollections of her fifth-grade year. Throughout her residence in Yamagata, she diligently and joyfully partakes in agricultural activities with the aid of cordial kinsfolk and inhabitants, inducing additional reminiscences. Her reception graciously provided by the locals prompts Taeko to reconsider her path in life.

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only yesterday

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[Image Description: The three Okajima sisters and their grandmother sitting on each side of a square futon, all looking at a pineapple on a shelf in the foreground, Taeko and Yaeko eating a banana each as their grandmother says “Strange fruit they have in those hot countries.”]