Star vs. the Forces of Evil

Plot description from English Wikipedia:

Star Butterfly is a magical princess from the dimension of Mewni and the heiress to the royal throne of the Butterfly Kingdom. By tradition, she is given her family’s heirloom wand on her 14th birthday and was known to be the most energetic and silly child through the royal family. After she accidentally sets fire to the family castle, her parents, King River and Queen Moon Butterfly, decide that a safer option is to send her to Earth as a foreign exchange student so that she can continue her magic training there. On Earth, Star befriends student Marco Diaz and lives with his family in suburban Los Angeles while attending Echo Creek Academy. Going on a series of misadventures using “dimensional scissors” with the ability to open portals, Star and Marco must deal with everyday school life while protecting Star’s wand from falling into the hands of Ludo, a half-bird, half-man creature from Mewni who commands a group of monsters.

Tonight we’ll watch the following segments:

• “Crystal Clear” — Rhombulus traps Star and Marco in a crystal because of the whole glitch situation (glitchuation if you will).
• “The Hard Way” — Glossaryck agrees to teach Ludo a few spells.
• “Heinous” — Miss Heinous arrives at the Diaz residence and demands some form of punishment for Princess Turdina/Marco’s actions.
• “All Belts are Off” — The grandmaster of the How-To-Karate video series goes to the strip mall dojo to certify it, and Marco is upset at Jeremy being chosen to represent the dojo instead of him.
• “Collateral Damage” — Star accidentally destroys Echo Creek High School’s most prized statue of a possum and has to make it up to everybody.
• “Just Friends” — Star, Marco, and Jackie go to a Love Sentence concert, and teen romance drama ensues.

Little Witch Academia

Plot description from Anilist:

In a time when magic is on the decline amid society, Atsuko Kagari is a cheerful girl who enters Luna Nova Academy in order to accomplish her dream of becoming a witch like her idol, Shiny Chariot. Shiny is a famous witch who disappeared from public view many years ago. On her way to school, Kagari meets the kind Lotte Yanson and the mischevious Sucy Manbavaran and the three become friends as they share a bedroom in campus. At the academy, Atsuko soon discovers she is in serious disadvantage compared to the other girls since she doesn`t come from a magical family and is required to learn the magical curriculum from scratch. Having found an item that once belonged to Chariot, Atsuko must discover how to activate and properly use the mysterious Shiny Rod as she hopes it might lead to finding out what has truly happened to her vanished idol.

Content warnings for Star vs. the Forces of Evil include:

• FLASHING LIGHTS
• Children in peril

See also DTDD and IMDb.

Content warnings for Little Witch Academia include:

• SMOKING
• SHAKY CAMERA
• Spiders, bugs, and snakes
• Parental death
• Ghosts
• Shower scene
• Vomit
• Eye injury
• Body horror, bodily transformation
• Underwater scenes
• Animal experimentation
• Sexual harassment, love potion plot

Star vs. the Forces of Evil was made on Tongva land

Star vs. the Forces of Evil was animated at Disney Television Animation’s studio in Tovaangar, the unceded homeland of the Uto-Aztecan-speaking Tongva people. More specifically, the animation studio in question is located in Glendale, Los Angeles County, near the historical Tongva villages of Wiqanga, Tujunga, Hahamongna, Ashwaangna, and Maungna, between the Verdugo and Santa Monica mountains whose springs had long provided fresh water for the Tongva.

The streets of Los Angeles were built by the slave labor of Tongva people arrested by settler police for “vagrancy and public drunkenness” after Seppoland annexed Tovaangar without treaty. The Tongva people today are still unrecognized by the governments of California and Seppoland, while the California Natives who did sign treaties with Seppoland never had those treaties ratified. This lack of Indigenous treaties in California presents unique legal challenges for the state’s Natives compared to Natives elsewhere in Seppoland.

The economic prosperity of Los Angeles that allowed an animation industry to develop in the city necessarily has its basis in the continuous and systemic disposession of Tongva people from their land. The Tongva had no say in approving the construction of Disney’s animation studio and sees none of the profit generated by the cartoons drawn on their land. And although piracy avoids putting money directly into the pockets of settler capitalists, unpaid fan labor such as pirate uploading still contributes to the overall values of the intellectual properties in question, just as any other labor adds to the value of any other commodity.

Tongva people still exist and still live in Tovaangar today. The Tongva still fight, as they have for centuries, to exercise their sovereignty over their homeland and resources. The Tongva are not a monolith nor in any way static: they are stratified by class like any other nation under capitalism; they adapt new technologies to their needs like any other nation; and also like any other nation, they have individual members intersected by every axis of oppression and each with their own individual perspectives.

Here’s a relevant charity:

• https://www.tongva.land/

I would also recommend listening to “An Indigenous Perspective On The Chicano Movement”, as it is very relevant to the topic of Mexican colonization of the Southwest and its lingering impact on the settler-colonial contradiction in e.g. Tovaangar today.

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