What do you think of first when it comes to summer? Air conditioning wifi + watermelon or beach bikini by the sea? The summer in the anime basically appears more or less these elements. Of course, in addition to these, there is also an indispensable element of summer in Japanese animation, that is, the "Summer Festival". Today I would like to introduce a romantic animated film with a youthful atmosphere in the summer.
"Words Emerge Like Soda" is a commemorative theatrical version of the anime and television record label Flying DOG. It was originally scheduled to be released in Japan on May 15, 2020, but had to be postponed due to the severe epidemic situation at that time.
It dragged on until this year, but in April, the filmmakers suddenly withdrew the file temporarily, and then decided to change to May 15 and then postponed to June 25. I thought I could finally see it at the end of June, but I still couldn't release it as scheduled. Finally, in July, the film announced that it would be changed to network broadcasting.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > luxurious production lineup</h1>
The film is co-produced by two animation companies, SIGNAL.MD and Supreme, and is directed by Kyohei Ishiguro, who has previously directed "April is Your Lie", and is good at depicting the inner activities of the characters. The script is in charge of Daisuke Sato, whose representative works "Ghost in the Shell" Seasons 1-2, Symphonic Poems, "Chaos Samurai", etc., belong to the veteran scripters.
Music: Kensuke Ushio, unlike Hiroyuki Sawano and Katsuya Yokoyama, is that the BGM he creates is combustible, lyrical, and versatile musical styles that can control various types of animation. Representative works include "Ping Pong", "Liz and the Blue Bird", "Not Ji Bo Pu Doesn't Laugh", "The Shape of Sound". (Off-topic: the music BGM of the popular masterpiece Chainsaw Man is also served by him)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > non-professional voice actors as the main voice actors</h1>
The male and female protagonists of this film are not professional voice actors, one of them is a TV drama actor and the other is a Kabuki actor. The theatrical version of the anime seems that everyone likes to find non-professional voice actors to dub, such as Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name" and "Weather Child", as well as "Hit with Fireworks", which are all voiced by TV drama actors.
First of all, let's introduce the voice actress "Sugi Kasumi", although she is only 24 years old, she has actually had an acting career for many years, and she participated in the filming of many TV series as a child star when she was young. He has worked with takuya Kimura, Keiko Kitagawa, Tsuyoshi Ayano, and others in the Japanese entertainment industry.
The male protagonist voice actor "Fujima Sai" is only 16 years old this year, but he is already a professional Kabuki performer who has inherited the title of Ichikawa Sogoro. He has a pair of fox eyebrows, is known as a national treasure in Japan, and has a large number of mother fans.
Kabuki is a traditional Japanese art that has a rule of passing on to men and not to women. Fujima Sai was born in Goryeo house, a kabuki gate with a history of more than 300 years. His father, Teruka Furu Fujima, was a famous Kabuki actor and film and television actor in 1981, and his aunt was the famous actress Takako Matsu.
In addition to the male and female protagonists, other roles are played by big-name voice actors, such as the male protagonist Cherry's father CV "Hiroshi Kamiya", his mother CV "Sakamoto Maaya", as well as "Natsuki Hanae", "Ai Nakajima", "Hoshinobi", and others who are rising rapidly in the younger generation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > teenage tales of teenage girls</h1>
The story structure of "Words Emerge Like Soda" is very simple, that is, it tells the process of two young boys and girls from meeting each other to falling in love. One is a haiku teenager cherry who is not good at communicating with people, and the other is Smile, a teenage girl who feels inferior to her own teeth and hides it with a mask. The two of them met because of a small accident, although they had a good feeling for each other, but the male protagonist could not express his feelings in words, and could only secretly convey love with haiku that hid the confession.
Later, in order to find an old record, they learned the touching story behind it, and the male protagonist was about to move, and the two immediately missed it. At the last moment, the heroine Smile also conveyed her inner thoughts to the male protagonist Cherry in words, and Cherry finally plucked up the courage to confess to Smile at the summer fireworks party after seeing it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > a Japanese implicit expression</h1>
How is "I love you" translated in English? Of course, "I love you", but the great writer Natsume Soseki does not think so. He translated it as "Tonight's moon is so beautiful." We all know that the Language of the Japanese is very subtle, they don't say they like you directly, they always express their emotions by twisting and turning. For example: "You see, the moon tonight is so beautiful (I like you)" "Yes, the wind is also gentle (I like you too)." ”
The leaves of mountain cherry blossoms grow earlier than cherry blossoms, so people with long teeth are also called "mountain cherry blossoms". The male protagonist wrote such a haiku on the Internet" "Mountain cherry blossoms, I like the leaves you hide" This is a subtle way of confession, the leaves refer to the teeth. Meaning I like the teeth hidden under your mask.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > the most romantic dark line</h1>
Although it is a youth love drama, as a commemorative work for the 10th anniversary of the record company Flying DOG, the theme is of course inseparable from music. The main line of the story is that the hero and heroine look for the old record together, and the story behind the record is a hidden dark line.
Although Mr. Fujiyama has a lot of things to remember, but his thoughts of his wife 50 years ago have never stopped, he always holds an old record in his hand, this record is what he specially made for his wife, Fujiyama's wife is also a toothless sister, so he named this vinyl record "Yamazakura". Their 50-year-old lovers also hint that the hero and heroine will eventually come together.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > two love affairs in space and time</h1>
Mr. Fujiyama burst into tears when he heard the song coming from the record, and he remembered the process of meeting with his wife from acquaintance to love. The song "YAMAZAKURA" created by Myoko Ogawa is indeed very lyrical, and when entering the memory, the audience's emotions were suddenly mobilized under the background of this song, ushering in the explosive point of the movie.
At the end of the film, there is the same scene as in the memory, on the same roof, two girls with the same "mountain cherry" teeth kiss with the boy under the gorgeous fireworks of the summer festival, and the two loves coincide in different time and space, which can be said to be very romantic.
Overall, "Words Emerge Like Soda" is a highly recommended animated film, and the highly saturated art style can also highlight the youthful vitality. Coupled with a subtle and romantic plot, this movie is as cool and refreshing as a summer chilled soda.