>>50348982Yes, being able to be seen as an equal human, emulating the legit "human girl' experience is what Latias cherishes above all. Even if she inherently isn't a part of the human Altomare world, she is able to emulate that "sense of human culture" perfectly seeing as she is also quite fond of drawing, despite her body language being kinda awkward, she understands all the nuances.
At the beginning of the movie, she's not even a Pokemon anymore in terms of mentality since she relates to humans more than she ever would to the Pokemon world.
Okay please hear out my schizo take. So the director of this movie is Kunihiko Yuyama.
I think! That Latias represents Japanese animation. Because IMO Latias's character with her changing forms is a reference to the Japanese legend of "Tsuru no Nyoubou" (google it). And this movie is anime so obviously the character is about anime, Latias drawing paintings is what shows that to us. And the Altomare city represents the meta-generalized "Western cultural sphere" since it shows an idealized fantasy version of the real life city of Venice in Italy.
Altomare is situated by the ocean, the ocean is what connects Japan with the rest of the world. Ash represents the self-insert viewer from "outside'.
I think! That the underlying message is that Japanese anime as an abstract idea is a concept that despite not being inherently meta-"Western", is an equal element of the whole meta-Western cultural process.
This is just my schizo take btw but if I'm by some chance right then holy cow is Kunihiko Yuyama on that top tier writing game since this is so subtle because it took me like 3 years to get to this schizo conspiracy. I mean that this is super deep.
Yeah I'm just overthinking this.
