When viewers meet Mei in Turning Red, she’s a confident and dorky 13-year-old who loves a number of things: math, pizza, cute animals, dumplings, music (especially the boyband 4*Town), her friends, and more. Related: Soul: Every Famous Mentor Explained Now, Mei’s journey in Turning Red is similar to 22’s in Soul. After being rescued by Joe from being a Lost Soul, 22 regained her confidence and finally made the jump to Earth. It wasn’t until she spent time on Earth in Joe’s body that she realized life on Earth wasn’t boring and there were a lot of fun activities, interesting people, and little things to enjoy everywhere, which gave her her “spark” or intention to live. When the audience met 22 in Soul, she had spent thousands of years at The You Seminar and had met every requirement to go to Earth except one, as she couldn’t find her “spark”, no matter how many mentors (some of them famous ones) she had had, and as a result, she had no interest in life on Earth. The last time viewers see 22, she jumps to Earth with Joe (though he can’t accompany her all the way) at the end of Soul and she lands somewhere in Asia. After a brief time on Earth through Joe’s body, 22 finds that spark and intention to live, completing her badge, so Joe rescues her as she had become a lost soul and escorts her out of the Great Before for her big jump to Earth. Together, Joe and 22 learn that the “spark” is not a soul’s purpose, as they had thought all along, but each soul’s intention to live. With Joe in a coma in the physical world, 22 agrees to let him help her find her “spark” to complete her badge and he can use it to go back to Earth. There he meets 22, a young soul in training who’s avoiding Earth and thus hasn’t completed her badge, which grants souls passage to Earth once it's completely filled out with personality traits. Joe is hired, but on his way home, he falls down a manhole and goes down the sewers, and when he wakes up, he finds himself as his soul heading into the “Great Beyond”. Soul tells the story of Joe Gardner ( Jamie Foxx), a music teacher who dreams of being a jazz musician and auditions to become part of Dorothea Williams’ (Angela Bassett) quartet. The latter was the first Pixar project to be sent directly to Disney+ due to the coronavirus pandemic, and while that impacted its box office performance, it was a critical success. Pixar has many traditions, including releasing at least one movie per year, and 2020 saw two very different stories: Onward and Soul. A fan theory suggests there’s a strong link between Turning Red and Soul thanks to 22 (voiced by Tina Fey) and Mei, as they could be one and the same, thus solving the mystery of 22’s fate. Of course, Turning Red has a bunch of Pixar Easter eggs and references, and fans have already tried to place it within the Pixar Universe Theory, but others have found a way to explain a Pixar mystery through Turning Red. Related: Turning Red: Why Mei's Mom's Red Panda Is So Much Bigger Unfortunately for Mei, that night coincides with a concert of her favorite boy band, 4*Town, and to further complicate everything, she also has to deal with her overbearing mother, Ming (Sandra Oh). This turns out to be a curse linked to her ancestors, who have a shared history with the species, but it can be contained by performing a special ritual on one specific night. Turning Red introduced viewers to Meilin "Mei" Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a dorky, 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student who one day discovers that, whenever she gets too excited or stressed, she turns into a giant red panda, but she can turn back if she becomes calm and controls her emotions. Pixar’s latest project, Turning Red, has been a success with critics and viewers but it has also been divisive, as it deals with topics that aren’t usually seen in Pixar movies.
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