Yamato is a super bad ass Japanese samurai that has tasks similar to Hercules. He even has to slay a dragon/serpent and beast of a boar as Herc does. Both are prime specimens of their societies. Both become warrior class. Both work with great swords. Both embark on quests beyond belief. They are pinnacles of their culture and revered as so, Yamato to the Japanese, and Hercules to the Greek/Roman.
Hercules is also a famed Disney movie in which many little boys and girls have seen. Disney is a part of our child hood. It is how we learn about different cultures and their stories before we ever even take a seat in elementary school. A Disney Yamato movie would be cool, but a rated R, computer generated graphics, blood splatter, crazy effects, 300/Troy type of Yamato movie would be better haha.
This same conversion into Disney classics was present to me in the Laos story - A Child of the Woods. A little girl runs to the jungle to be raised by nature and lives happily, protected by wild cats and other beast while she sleeps under trees, only to return to civilization a better person and love for all. Kind of sounds like Mogli and the Jungle Book story, which is also a Disney convert. Could also relate to Tarzan, another Disney movie. All have a child raised in the jungle. All have a big wild cat or two. All try and convert back to civilization at the end. So many connections. These were interesting to me. Disney is a cult haha.
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