From: tzarius@dodo.com.au   
      
   Jamie Schrumpf wrote:   
      
   > In the past two weeks I've watched "Spirited Away" and "Akira" for the   
   > first time.  Now, these films are 15 years apart, yet both use a "giant   
   > baby" motif in them:  Yabuba's baby in "Spirited Away"; and briefly in the   
   > transformation of Tetsui at the end of "Akira".   
   >   
   > Does this motif have a special meaning in Japan, or perhaps just in the   
   > anime world?  It can't just be a coincidence that this motif appears in two   
   > films of such different natures.   
   >   
      
   2001: A Space Odysee (spelling?)   
   (you know the one with the monkey that throws the bone into the air? Or   
   have the simpsons perverted my pop-culture memory?)   
      
   Tetsuo was just growing really rapidly, his bone structure didn't keep up.   
      
      
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