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The Lumity Kiss, One Year Later

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Saw a few posts marking the one-year anniversary of the kiss between Luz Noceda and Amity Blight (aka “Lumity”) in The Owl House season 2 episode “Clouds on the Horizon”. Quite a cultural moment for animation and LGBT representation in mass media, particularly for the Disney behemoth. They fed the fandom with this one.

This moment, among others, netted The Owl House a 2023 nomination for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming (Animated), even though it went to Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park. I honestly wish that GLAAD Media Awards would allow for a first, second and third place winner for each category, now that they’ve expanded the nominee list for many categories to ten entries.

But still, Dana Terrace can say that she expanded Disney’s boundaries.

The original comic took place in Tokyo, but to make it their own, Hall and Williams decided to set the story in a brand new yet familiar city, melding the original locale with a near-future San Francisco. “It’s a very high-tech city that blends Eastern and Western culture, so we wanted it to be a mashup, just like the movie is a mashup between Disney and Marvel,” says Hall.

The resulting animated metropolis—which truly is its own character in the film, although people say that a lot—is a celebration of futuristic urban life and the high-tech culture that drives its residents. And it’s brought to life thanks to several new animation technologies developed in-house by Disney itself.

via A Tour of ‘San Fransokyo,’ the Hybrid City Disney Built for Big Hero 6.

I’m rather enamored of the trailers, and the city looks freaking amazing so far. I want to see it.