"Animation Time for Adult Women" is a series of animations produced by The Answer Studio that focus on adult women, and there are currently 4 episodes. In the 38 Queens' Day, I normally remembered that this series had not been supplemented, so I made up the recommendation at the speed of one word a day.
The first one recommended today is "The Wind That Slid Across the River" scripted by Reiko Yoshida. Reiko Yoshida, who has been in charge of the "Eternal Garden of Violets", "White Box", and "Mercury Navigator" series, needless to say, has a delicate quality of her script, and the delicate control of female monologues is the first script of "Adult Women's Animation Time".
What kind of story should an adult woman be the protagonist? In the traditional Japanese eyes, women should be the Yamato Fumiko type, but if the opposite is true, it is a story like "Day Face". Yes, "The Wind That Glides Across the River" is such a story about a woman's infidelity.
The following text is a strong spoiler, if you are interested in this game, it is recommended to complete this anime before reading.
The story of "Wind Across the River" begins with the heroine returning to her hometown of Kanazawa, the animation uses the technology of real-time shooting to 2D animation background, although the animation technology in 2011 is also very mature, there is a feeling between animation and live-action drama, but also let the Japanese audience have a more sense of substitution.
The heroine returned to her hometown from the United States and seemed to be very happy to return with her son. When relatives asked their son how old are you?, the child answered four in fluent English. Of course, no one knows that the heroine intends to divorce her husband.
As the story progresses, the heroine's memories gradually unfold, on the one hand, in the memories, we learn that the heroine is the daughter of the owner of the Japanese and fruit shop, who chose to run away in order to live an ordinary life that is not like her sister, on the other hand, in the memory, there is a non-smiling apprentice in the fruit shop - Hisao.
Memories in Japan are interspersed with memories in the United States, and this narrative is accompanied by intense piano keys. In the memory, we learned that the heroine in the United States was not happy, and in the face of her husband's cheating heroine, she only had her own children and food in her eyes, and repeatedly ate and vomited every night.
In Japan's memories, we know the story of the heroine who returned to Kanazawa 5 years before they got married, and had sex with Hisao that night. It is a very unconventional thing for girls to offer to sleep with men, but this story first tells the misfortune of the heroine in the United States after marriage and then goes back to the night of the pre-marital cheating through such a narrative to reduce the guilt of women taking the initiative to cheat.
Maybe this is a story that wants to tell women's rights or equal rights, to tell people that women also have the right to cheat, this is the first part of "Adult Women's Animation Time" - "The Wind Across the River".
At the end of the story, the heroine who appears again in front of Kuo learns that Kuo has been married.
- How old is your son now?
- Three years old.
What kind of life would the heroine have stayed after listening to Kufu's words at that time? It's a pity there are no ifs. The mother mistook her son's age, so why not just this?
The interpretation of this story can be compared with the paragraph above about cheating on equal rights, but the end of this story seems to indicate the danger of women going out to seek development, which is really a contradictory story.