Aa! Megami-sama!

"Men are the wind" as one of the goddesses remarks in an episode where Keiichi finds himself turned into a gust of wind. It's no occluded metaphor to show this, the full face of the show given openly in this small interaction. Belldandy's powers are the manipulation and directing of the wind, a force of motion directly compared to masculinity. Hobbes knew this, in defining man as a creature of appetites, with the gender theory inherent being in defining *men* as beings of appetite, a force akin to a flood or a gust. Belldandy's control of these forces is related to her perfection, a sickening degree of it, exemplifying every virtue of the ideal woman imaginable, with utter devotion to fulfilling those virtues in all ways and cases.

 Her sisters and compatriot form counterpoints to her own magic of the wind. Urd controls fire and electricity, inflamed herself with passions and the occultist practices of Hell, something endemic to her very blood. Skuld has no powers meanwhile, only able to project herself through cold mechanism without the soul of magic, her maturity not yet reached. It's telling that her maturity came with the realization of love, an emotional alien to her until then, which shocked and confused her - showing her childish nature.

 All of this is to say, this show is a slice of life and an instructional. The goddesses show in varying forms an examples, ways of womanhood, through their various dramas of manipulating men. The show centers around Keiichi, a sort of training-male, castrated and only partially alive, which the Goddesses demonstrate and work through their abilities of manipulation. The show is two seasons of this - watching the Goddesses train in a harmless environment, to show the proper magical and manipulative techniques of witchcraft.

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