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  • Brave goes where every Disney film has gone before

    I’m an unabashed fan of mahou shojou as a genre in anime, but in American animation the trope of the oppressed girl who takes control of her own destiny has been done to death: Ariel: follows her heart for true love despite overbearing father (and saves the day) Belle: follows her heart for true love…