Natsume's Friend's Account has always been one of my favorite healing manga, not one of them. So when I heard that the theatrical version of "Natsume's Friend's Account" "Fate Knot Empty Cicada" would be released in China, I was super excited, and I made an appointment with a group of friends who also liked this movie to definitely go to see this movie. We went to the movie theater to see the movie, and the movie hall was full of fans, and when the familiar Natsume and the cat teacher appeared on the screen, many people in the movie hall couldn't help but laugh. On the big screen, it was still the familiar gentle teenager and the hard-mouthed cat teacher.
The story of "The Empty Cicada" is very simple and moving. Still shuttling back and forth between the world of man and yokai, Natsume meets his classmate Yuki, who cheated on him as a child, and recalls the unbearable memories of the past that were not accepted; the cat teacher mistakenly ate the fruit and split into three kittens, how to restore him to his original state; Natsume met Rong Lizhi and her son, who had intersected with her grandmother, through a yokai who came to ask for the return of the name, and it seemed unusual between them.
Natsume, anxious to get The Cat Teacher back to her original form, strives to discover the secrets behind this series of events. It turned out that Rong Lizhi did not reject Natsume Reiko, on the contrary, she felt that Natsume Reiko was a cool and brave person, and she did not want to approach Reiko, but did not dare. She wanted to say thank you to the seemingly indifferent girl who helped her pick up the hanging ornament. When he was a child, Yuki could not see the yokai, but he deceived Natsume that he could also see the yokai, which made Natsume, who had always regarded himself as an alien, think that he had finally met a friend who cherished each other, but in the end he found that it was a deception. But in fact, Yuki also wants to see that different world. Rong Lizhi's son actually died eight years ago, and now she is accompanied by a monster. The final ending of the story is tearful and gratifying.
The youkai who let everything return to their original state left Rong Lizhi, and Rong Lizhi forgot the bits and pieces of their relationship but still felt the traces of his existence. Because there have been intersections, they are not easily forgotten. Natsume and Yuki also confess their hearts to each other, and the gentle Natsume finally reconciles with the past. The cat teacher returned to his original state, still guarding Natsume's side, never abandoning it.
In the film, there are two places that impressed me. The first is when Natsume and Yuki go to the waterfall together when they were young. The youkai who guarded the waterfall said: You can't touch every drop of water in this river, because every drop of water here symbolizes a person's destiny. The fate of humanity is fragile, and the slightest touch can be changed. In the second place, the monster left Rong Lizhi, and Rong Lizhi recovered her memory, her son had died, but she clearly felt that someone had been with her. Once people have a bond, they will not forget. Obviously, the waters meet, but their bonds are inextricably linked.
The first thing that attracted me to this anime was the faint sadness that haunted it. The forest, the sun, the white-clad youth, are obviously clear images, but the combination is melancholy. Maybe it was because the teenager always had a pretense of his heart, maybe the forest was one lonely and lonely individual after another. Do you have anyone you would like to meet? If so, be brave enough to meet them! Maybe he's waiting to meet you too.
That familiar teenager made me always surrender to tenderness.
Text: Ba Wei Wei