"White Rabbit Candy" is called the warmest and sweetest family love scroll by fans. The popularity of this anime is not particularly high, but its reputation has never declined, the work scored 9.8 points on the b station, the Douban score of 9.1 points, this work also often appears in the list of anime self-media drama recommendations. The original manga of "White Rabbit Candy" was serialized in 2005, the author's name is Yumi Uhito, the animated version began to play in 2011, and we are going to talk about the animated version of "White Rabbit Candy" this time.
The story of the work is very simple, telling the story of the young girl Shikaga Rin's father, the old master, who died, and her mother disappeared, so her ordinary life was suddenly disrupted, and the girl also became a taciturn character. At this time, relatives began to blame each other on the issue of raising the child, until the male protagonist Hedi Daji said that he was willing to raise Shikaga Rin. According to the relationship between generations, the thirty-year-old Daji should call the six-year-old Lu He Rin a little aunt, which gives people a very subtle feeling in this regard. The second half of the story tells the trivialities of this temporary two-person family living together, but the core of the story is full of the author's thinking about family affection.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > unprepared start and rapidly changed life, like a real life</h1>
In the first episode of the anime, a large number of telephoto shots are used to depict Shikaga Rin, which only accounts for one-twentieth of the size of the shot, and the rest of the places are either empty rooms or solid color backgrounds, which is to show the audience the lonely mood after losing his relatives from the side. There's a storyboard in the back that's very interesting, where Daji is throwing "Come to my house?" to Rin. After the olive branch, Rin stepped out of the shadows and into the sun, suggesting that the little girl had since come out of the haze. After that, as soon as the camera turns, the time comes to the first day of the two people's lives together.
Although the hint is in place, whether it is Daji or Rin, both people are improvisational, Daji has never had the experience of taking care of children, and Rin has never left the previous home, it can be said that this is an unprepared beginning, but at this point the lives of the two people are quickly changed, especially for Daji.
From the time of buying daily necessities, it can be seen here that the new life of the two of them will not be as smooth as imagined. Daji wants to play the role of father, but when he arrives, he has not even been a husband, let alone take care of the children. I don't know how to send my child to kindergarten, I have to work overtime at night, I can't take my child home before dark... The contradiction between ideal and reality soon collides, and here it also involves the author's first reflection on society, whether work and family can be balanced.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > balance that is difficult to balance, taking care of your family means losing your job prospects, and desperate overtime may be destroying your family</h1>
As we all know, Japan's work pressure is very large, overtime has almost become a common thing, after overtime with the leader to go to the izakaya to drink is also an indispensable daily link, film and television dramas and animations in a lot of Japanese couples quarrel bridge section, are because the husband to the pressure of work transferred to the family, a body of resentment has nowhere to vent, had to take the family to vent the fire, and the wife often feels that the husband because of the work regardless of the family, but the husband work hard is also for the family to live a better life, Therefore, the contradiction between work and family has become a dead knot, and the male protagonist Daji is also facing this problem.
His job is also to work overtime often, work late, and in the first few days of living together, Rin is always the last child to come out of the custody, and this is still a big luck to give up socializing with colleagues. Every day the two people return home late, plus to cook and collect information about Rin's kindergarten, often have to stay up very late, and the next morning they have to get up very early to catch the tram to send Rin to the child care center, which is equivalent to a person breaking in half to make it, and may not be able to carry it in a few days.
But this problem has been solved, after seeing the colleague's predecessor in order to take care of the child to take the initiative to transfer to a post without overtime, but there is no promotion space, he also learned to do so, took the initiative and the leader asked for a transfer, gave up the time to socialize with colleagues in the izakaya, and therefore Rin can start to go to kindergarten normally, and Daji paid for Rin to pay half a beautiful future. This also triggered the author's second thought, parents give their children all their time, is it worth it?
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > biological mother who gives birth to a child but abandons it, and a companion who sacrifices most of her time without a parent's name</h1>
After entering elementary school, Daji met many parents of children, including fathers who had to take care of their children personally. He also raised such a question with the parents of other children, saying that he did not have his own time after the adoption and did not know if he could bear it. Other parents said that the time spent with their children is also their own time, which is a precious time.
In this regard, Daji is positive, because his time with Rin is really precious, but not all parents are like this, and Rin's biological mother chose to give time to work. Later, Daji still managed to contact Rin's biological mother in the mother-daughter manual- unlike what she imagined, she was a very young woman, about the same age as Daji, and her profession was a manga artist. However, Rin's mother had already decided not to let Rin be her daughter when she was pregnant, and she chose to devote her time to drawing comics, so she gave up Rin when taking care of the children and not having time to draw comics and edit them. From the point of view of parenthood, she is absolutely incompetent, and it is absolutely impossible to whitewash her in any case when a child is born and abandons her. But if from the character's own point of view, she's not willing to give her time to the child, she thinks it's not worth it, and maybe she can understand her thoughts. In the second reflection, the author shows us two very different attitudes, and for this question, I think most parents will answer it worth it.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > at the same time, this work also unveils the fig leaf of family affection. And it's done with three dark lines. </h1>
One of the dark lines is Rin's biological mother, who chose to abandon after giving birth to a child, leaving the child to be taken care of by others, losing her qualifications as a parent, and she is a betrayer of family affection. From a non-God perspective, if Rin had been thrown into the so-called "well-equipped institution" by relatives after the death of the old man, or adopted by an irresponsible person, it would be a completely different story, and we could not judge the right and wrong of her mother's choice to abandon her because she was very happy after being adopted by Daji.
The second of the dark line is Daji's cousin, who plans to divorce her with her children and runs away from home to Come to Daji's home for a temporary stay, earlier we mentioned that desperate overtime may be destroying your family, cousin's husband is so, very desperate in work, in addition to overtime is on a business trip, in terms of family is basically a hand-shaking treasurer. Not to mention the children, even his wife is difficult to see him, and the cousin is angry with her mother-in-law at home, so she has planned to divorce many times. But in the end, she still endured, maybe half of the reason for putting up with it was because she didn't want her children to lose the perfect family, maybe her husband would change his mind like Daji after experiencing this incident, change jobs, become an ideal father, or maintain the status quo, the description of their family in the animation suddenly stopped, we don't know the correct ending, but the role of Daji's cousin is a maintainer of family affection.
The third dark line is the divorced Hiroki mother, who takes care of the children alone and is a family wave chaser, sometimes following the waves, sometimes going against the waves. The story does not explain to us why Hiroki's mother divorced that year, but from her feelings for Hiroki and her attitude towards Daji and Rin, we can see her cherishing of family affection.
Three dark lines parallel, coupled with the main line of Daji and Rin, the author wants to bring us is the independent thinking of family affection, what is the connotation of family affection, Rin and the biological mother are blood relations of affection, but there is no affection between the two, and Daji and Rin are not immediate relatives (in fact, the two are not even related by blood, but this fact is shown in the later stages of the manga, here is only talking about the content of the animation, so the specific content is skipped), The two people who temporarily formed a family to live together have a strong atmosphere of family affection.
After I personally watched "White Rabbit Candy", the interpretation of family affection lies in the keywords "companionship", the mutual companionship of Daji and Rin, the companionship of Hiroki's mother to Hiroki, the companionship of Daji's cousin to the child, and even the companionship between Rin's biological mother and her new boyfriend, which is the key word of family affection, and not the unashamed "I am all for your own good", "Socializing outside is for the sake of home", "I don't come to see you because I am busy with business" and so on.