The heat had just passed, and the student party's summer vacation had also been consumed. But that's okay, we still have a weekend! When I was a child, I liked a group of friends around in the afternoon to nibble on watermelons and watch animations, not to worry about future life, not to worry about homework has not been done, and to intertwine imaginative ideas with ordinary happy daily life, as if this is the simplest but special summer scene. The animations that accompanied us became the most memorable images in our memories.
The "Rainbow Firefly ~ Forever Summer Vacation~ recommended by Qiyingjun" is a film that is easy to recall the days when they were children and watched the TV with their friends.
The father of Yuta, a sixth-grade elementary school student, left due to a traffic accident. Yuta, missing her father, came to the mountain reservoir where she used to catch unicorns with her father, and met a thirsty old man in the woods, so she gave the old man the water bottle she had brought with her. Unexpectedly, I traveled back to 1977, more than 30 years ago.
It was the last summer before the reservoir was built, and the small village under the water had not been submerged at that time, and there was a legend that rainbow-colored fireflies saved the people of the village. Yuta suddenly appears as a cousin from the city by the girl Samako, and becomes acquainted with the boy Kenzo from the neighbor's house, and just as everyone is preparing for the last firefly summer festival under the summons of the shrine god Aotengu, Yuta discovers that he is not the only one who has crossed over...
Although the animation is a time-space reversal and a firefly legend, the most empathetic part of this animation is the rural daily part of the first half. In addition to the typical Japanese labels of catching unicorn fairies, summer festivals, and fireworks displays, this is a process that everyone will go through from acquaintance to playfulness to parting.
When Yuta and Kenzo are separated, the truck does not stop, the friends in the field of vision are getting smaller and smaller, and the cute village will never be seen again, but it will still be moved. Parting can be uncomfortable for a while, but if it is a permanent parting, it is enough to make people sad. In order to say goodbye, Kenzo kept running, climbing up the hillside, climbing up the roof of the tile, and when we grew up, we couldn't do such a move.
This is a quiet and soft story that needs to be read quietly. Watch fireflies spend their summer vacations together with childhood playmates, teenage boy-girl conventions, growth and memories, pain and relief, and love and hope. Those who made a pact together when they were young that "we will be separated and will contact again" have probably been blown away by the wind and scattered in the end of the world.
The original work of "Rainbow Fireflies" was a web novel of the same name that began to be serialized by novelist Masayuki Kawaguchi in 2004, and later published a physical book due to its high popularity, and sold more than 400,000 copies before the animation was released. As early as the beginning of the publication of the novel, the author himself put forward the declaration of "the goal of eventually realizing the image". In May 2012, eight years after the novel's birth, the theatrical version of the anime was released under the supervision of Konosuke Uda.
Many people may know Unako Utanosuke from One Piece, as one of the earliest supervisors of the ONE PIECE series of TV animations, Utanosuke is also the supervisor of the theatrical versions of Galaxy Railway 999 Eternal Fantasy, Adventure at the End of Death, and Mechanical Giants of Organ City. In addition, many familiar TV animations such as "Sailor Moon", "Kaneda Kazuna Event Book", "Realm Triggerer" and many other well-known TV animations have also participated in him.
"Rainbow Firefly" is a relatively special existence for Utada Konosuke. Since the original manga of the previous theahatrical anime had little room for Utanosuke to play, "Rainbow Fireflies" left a lot of room for imagination for the adaptation of the anime, making it a work that embodied the style of Utah Konosuke.
The story is about the natural landscape of the Japanese countryside in the 1970s and the friendship between the protagonist and the children, and Utada Konosuke's childhood coincided with the 1970s, so the animation naturally added a lot of personal experience.
The art supervisor of Rainbow Fireflies is Tamura, who was in charge of the melancholy of Haruhi Ryogu and The Light Tone. As for the music used in the film, Masataka Matsunaya, who had produced the soundtrack for "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time" and "Heaven's Main House ~ Love fire", was invited. The theme song was sung by Yumi Matsunai( Arai), the wife of masataka Matsunaga, one of the most influential singers of the 20th century in the Japanese music scene and wife of Masataka Matsunai.
To borrow the first lyrics from the theme song "Dedicated to Love and the Distant Future", "Relive the memories that stirred my heart when I was young, and leave behind something that cannot be described in words". This may be the resonance that "Rainbow Fireflies ~ Forever Summer Vacation ~ " can make us resonate.
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