Pure "healing" can no longer satisfy The Healing Manga Artists of Japan. What they seek is actually to whisper the truth about "life is helpless". This is also why "Natsume's Friend's Account" heals people while overflowing with a sadness that people dare not delve into.
This experience of the edge of human emotion is often the favorite story of Natsume's Friend's Account. No matter what kind of encounters you have experienced, in Natsume's story you will always find a fragment that accurately pierces the softest part of your heart. Assuming that Midorikawa did not see through, understand, and accept the fragility and intensity of human feelings at the same time, I think she could not have written such a story with a heavy weight.
"If there is someone you want to meet, you are not alone"
Natsume wasn't actually alone, he was much luckier than Reiko. He was also afraid of the strange eyes and even mocking behavior of others, but he did not change, and the kindness and warmth as always allowed him to meet Michisan Sensei, Tanuma, Tadashi, Aunt and Uncle Shiko, and many very kind yokai.
Natsume is a story with a not-so-happy but warm ending that I laugh at the corners of my mouth until I go to bed at night. I don't know whether the later starlings disappeared completely or continued to wander, but in fact, many times we don't have to care about the so-called ending, because meeting and parting is not the final ending, you will continue to meet some people and continue to be separated from some people.
The important thing is that you have had a unique bond with it, and this bond will eventually warm your life at some point in the future.
As the theatrical version of "Natsume's Friend's Account", "Natsume's Friend's Account" is more like a memory and remembrance, recalling the past, remembering friends, thanking the people and demons who have appeared in life, and its theme is contrary to the previous emphasis on not being able to get married, in vain to increase loneliness, but to highlight that even if I am lonely, I still exist, accompany you through the most beautiful years in your life. It is more to emphasize that encounter is the fate, acquaintance is also the fate, companionship is the fate, even if the fate is exhausted, even if the memory is lost, but you will still leave traces in my life. People leave their names, and geese pass by.
Always recall this conversation:
"Why don't you tell Aunt Tazi about you?"
"Because when they say it, they will believe it." Thinking of me so far, aunties must be very sad, I don't want them to be heartbroken, what I want to see is their smiles. ”
"Because I met a gentle person, I wanted to be gentle with others."