We discuss Mamoru Hosoda's third original film and final Madhouse production, 2012's "Wolf Children." When Doc first watched it, it was one of his favorites. After watching/rewatching all of Hosoda's work n the lead up to this podcast, does he still feel the same way? Shadon has never seen the film before. What does he think of it? Click play and find out!

Lot of ground covered in our discussion, including: production details, both the critical and also the academic/scholarly response to the film then and now, different cultural perspectives on single-motherhood, queer readings of wolfhood, "let's get back to nature" and, of course, our emotional responses to the movie. And much more!

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Music:
Wolfmother "Woman"
Michael Kelly "Calicomp 1.1 Shutdown"

Sources:
David John Boyd  (2012) "Wolves or People?"
Jacob Chapman (2013) "Wolf Children BD+DVD"
Andrea Germer, Rafael Vinícius Martins, Tianqi Zhang (2017) "A ‘Japanese’ Cinema of Reassurance Queering, Passing—and Reifying Normativity in Hosoda Mamoru’s Wolf Children"
M. M. Grajdian (2020) “Compassionate neo-traditionalism in Hosoda mamoru’s animation movies”
David Whitely 2016 “Human Animals - Transformations Devoutly To Be Wished?”

If we mention an author not listed here, there's an excellent chance their work is quoted in one of the articles above!