I could honestly say so much about this movie but this really speaks to me as someone who does push for platonic male and female relationships and why Ashitaka and San's relationship transcends personal connection to another human, or in this case outcast. Their love story (or just relationship) is a compromise between the two worlds.
The story of Princess Mononoke is one that is about ''the marginals of history'' (Napier 233) but Ashitaka and San are the outcasts of their respective realms that collide and mix and their similarities bring them together to keep the human and natural world at peace with each other.
