How did they handle such an astronomical problem? Let’s break it down one character at a time.Īshitaka is probably the wisest of all the characters in Princess Mononoke but remember that he didn’t start out this way. Okay, maybe it didn’t exactly go that way in Princess Mononoke but the similarities between this movie and with the COVID-19 pandemic we have right now are worth taking note. It all starts like this: an infected animal meets a human being, the virus spreads and boom, a pandemic starts.
