How the red panda became the face of cute rebellion, from "Turning Red" to "Aggretsuko"
SalonIn "Turning Red," the Pixar-produced film airing on Disney+, a 13-year-old girl named Mei who lives in Toronto turns into a red panda whenever she feels a strong emotion, ranging from anger over her mother's strict parenting to crushing on her and her friends' beloved boy band, 4*Town. Perhaps it's the "not considered dangerous" part that makes red pandas so endearing. They seem like they have secret lives — and in fiction, they do: In Netflix's "Aggretsuko," a red panda office worker by day screams hardcore metal karaoke by night, like a fierce, fuzzy "Jem and the Holograms." An animal that doesn't seem to fit in anywhere — it makes sense that the young teen heroine of "Turning Red" would find herself as this creature; she's still trying to find herself in general.
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