While Kubo in the Two Strings attempts to enrapture young Americans with the beauty and glory of an animated East-Asian-centric hero’s tale, thus improving both the looking-glass self prescribed by the outward world onto Asian Americans, as well as the presentation of self by Asian Americans onto themselves, the film in actuality perpetuates harmful stereotypes, contaminating the inward and outward perception of Asian Americans in a way identical to those linked with lower self-confidence in other marginalized groups. Furthermore, the intended audience of families with young children only adds to the detrimental effect of such perpetuation by directing these destructive perceptions to the minds of developing parents and young children, under
