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Of course, the characters’ attitudes toward female sexuality aren’t just late-medieval with regard to witches, but women in general. The period’s great “thinkers” debated whether women were naturally “purer” than men or…get this…”more promiscuous.” And when we were the latter, female sexuality was seen as innately dangerous and predatory. There’s a reason that succubi show up way more in folklore and popular culture than incubi. They were the greater threat, since the people who believed in this stuff saw women as more erotically-driven. After all, women were believed to be less intelligent than men, and therefore more easily tempted by baser desires. It’s a view that shows up in female sexuality through the end of the 18th century, only really going away with the advent of Victorian sexual attitudes…but even that really only applied to privileged women. The “women are more sexual” ideal just went underground, applied only to women society had deemed “degenerate” in another way. In both cases, the “looser” sexuality of women was seen as more reason for men to control them.
As the Reformation spread around Europe and more formerly-Catholic areas turned Protestant, similar ideas were used to attack and marginalize nuns, particularly ones who weren t so eager to sacrifice even their limited education and authority for rushed, forced Protestant marriages. The show s villains the zealot Inquisitors, merciless angels, feudal politicians, and violent thugs who profit from war, promote ignorance, and vilify Maria aren t cartoonishly evil mustache twirlers who were born bad and laugh while the world burns.
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Look Up in Anger – The Righteous Indignation of Maria the Virgin Witch
Maria the Virgin Witch is an angry show. At first it may have looked like just an affable sex comedy about a prudish teenage witch and the horny succubus who wants to get her laid, but the longer the show goes on the more its seething anger boils over. Mostly gone are the jokes about awkward teenage horniness and cherry-popping, replaced by pointed condemnations of the ugly, tangled mass of religion, blind doctrine, and abusive power dynamics that make up the medieval Church. Maria shows increasing hostility toward the people who make up oppressive, backward institutions like the medieval Church, specifically the ways the people who wield power in its name use their weight to perpetuate injustices and push people around. It’s a far cry from when the highest stakes conflict was whether or not Maria’s incubus familiar would ever get a schlong of his own.
Thankfully, Maria the Virgin Witch is an intelligent show that has already proven itself to be more than capable of handling such heavy subject matter with nuance and insight. It would be easy for Maria‘s brand of anti-authority, “leave me alone” anger to come off as flailing and immature, especially when directed at a target as big and as tempting as the Catholic Church of the Dark Ages. But Maria‘s anger isn’t the yelling kind that comes from hatred and bile; it’s the kind that comes from bitter disappointment. The show’s villains – the zealot Inquisitors, merciless angels, feudal politicians, and violent thugs who profit from war, promote ignorance, and vilify Maria – aren’t cartoonishly evil mustache twirlers who were born bad and laugh while the world burns. Their evil is the most mundane kind: they’re jealous, small-minded, complacent, and self-centered. They are desperate to maintain their lot in life and therefore instinctually afraid of anything that challenges their worldview or takes power out of their hands. It’s the kind of evil that people commit reflexively, without thinking, while still being absolutely sure they’re in the right. That kind of evil can seem small and petty but it’s the most pervasive kind of all, and often it’s the most destructive and the hardest to combat.
Which isn’t to say that Maria herself is perfect or that she doesn’t have many of the same flaws as the people who antagonize her. Maria is pig-headed, naïve, quick to anger, and at the start of the show is just as self-centeredly convinced of her own righteousness as Bernard, Galfa, and the other agents of the Church, the State, and the Heavens who oppose her. Despite her blessed name and virginal status, Maria is far from pure. But that doesn’t stop her from trying to improve the lives of the people around her and make the world a better place, even as she maintains her independence from society. Her opponents do the opposite: they use their energy and influence to wage war and control thought in the name of maintaining order under an unjust system.
Why the difference between them? What separates the flawed, humanized hero from the flawed, humanized villains in the world of Maria the Virgin Witch? A shallow reading would say that the difference is purely a choice of religion – the enlightened, pagan Maria vs. dumb, violent, witch-burning Christians – but there’s much more to it than that. What director Goro Taniguchi and writer Hideyuki Kurata* have repeatedly emphasized is that the problems and flaws of Maria‘s characters have nothing to do with the spiritual validity of the Christian faith. What makes Maria’s Christian oppressors villainous (both the individual, flawed souls and Heaven itself) is how they use their power and positions to prop up the unjust order of the world, because the unjust order of things is why they have their power and positions in the first place. Maria the Virgin Witch isn’t interested in debating whether or not Jesus died on the cross to redeem the world’s sins, or if the old-world pagan spirits are the true religion; it wants to know why the beings vested in the Christian God’s authority can’t seem to live up to their own beliefs, and often don’t even seem to try. If faith in Jesus is the light that shows the truth, why are his followers so set in their obvious ignorance? If God is love, then why does His Church promote intolerance and revel in judgement? If He weeps for people’s suffering, why doesn’t He do something to stop it?
*Kurata was also the scriptwriter for director Akitaro Daichi’s Now and Then, Here and There, which explored similar themes of individual complicity in an unjust society as the latter parts of Maria The Virgin Witch, though in much more hyperbolic and less-nuanced ways than Kurata’s writing on Maria.
Maria the Virgin Witch may not have a good answer for, “Why does God let people suffer?” (who does?), but it definitely has an answer for why His servants have such a big hateboner for Maria herself: they cannot control her. What the Church represents most of all in Maria the Virgin Witch is those who gain power, status, and self-worth through being able to control others. Even the soldier Galfa, who is of much lower social status than the rest of the villains, derives his self-worth from being a tool of the system. He lives for the violence, plunder, and glory that being his rulers’ strongman brings him. Even more than those of higher station, Galfa instinctively understands how his license to inflict his will on others and benefit in ways denied to other people of the same social position, comes from the existing unjust distribution of power: when teenage girl Maria fights back against him despite being years younger and half his size, Galfa immediately interprets her defiance as a challenge to his dominance and tries to rape her. To the people in charge of maintaining the current order, both the high-minded proselytizers and the cynical opportunists, someone like Maria who refuses to listen to them or to recognize their authority is the ultimate threat to their existence. In their eyes, Maria is much more dangerous than a rebel: she is a hostile foreigner, an invader and corrupter that is so antithetical to their worldview that until they encountered Maria, they would not have even been able to conceive of her. As functionaries of a misguided and oppressive power structure, Maria’s enemies don’t just hate her; they cannot even comprehend her.
It’s the blinding, morally stultifying effect of being a part of a corrupt authority that Maria The Virgin Witch is most angry about. The men who abuse and condemn Maria aren’t evil by nature; they do evil things because they can’t see outside their own sheltered prism. They insist that everyone else see things the same way as them regardless of whether it benefits anyone else, and they use the power they have to force their will on anyone who doesn’t comply. Maria the Virgin Witch is angry with these people, and wants the audience to be just as angry with them. Not because they are naturally inferior, but because they should know better.
“You’re already a bad girl,” you’re told. “So why aren’t you a bad girl in the way that makes men happy? How dare you define it in your own terms?” It’s another way that society defines women purely in terms of who we are to men, and denies us any kind of sexual agency. Because it primarily affects marginalized categories of women, though, it doesn’t come up in Western media that much. But maybe it works differently in Japan, because it seems to come up over and over again in anime, from Revolutionary Girl Utena to new Lupin III series The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Of these, Maria is probably the most direct about this topic.
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Reviews for "From Stage to Screen: Magic Mary 20's Journey into Hollywood"
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