Main Character?

  Turning Red follows Meilin, or Mei, as she discovers that she can transform into a giant red panda. In the beginning of the story, Mei has a falling out with her mother, signifying a separation from the feminine. Her overprotective mother, Ming, discovers her drawings of her fantasizing about a convenient store clerk and proceeds to go and confront him, embarrassing Mei in front of everyone. Mei the next day discovers that she has transformed into a giant red panda which belongs to the feminine side since this ability is passed down to all the female descendants. What’s most interesting though is that this ancestral power symbolically represents the masculine due to separation from the women in the family and this power through a special ritual which seals it into a talisman. I would say that the red panda represents masculine side while the human side represents the feminine even though both could be interpreted as the feminine. I think that her discovering this ability right af...