The Japanese love cats so much.
For example, the "Tang Cat" that protects buddhist scriptures on the shipboard, the aristocratic pet cat in ukiyo-e, such as Natsume Soseki's "I Am a Cat", such as the demon cat or cat, as well as totoro, robot cat, and cat to repay the favor.
After hundreds of years with cats, the Japanese projected the inexhaustible dark spots of their emotions onto cats.
Artists use the cat as a metaphor, in fact they intend to compare themselves to cats, cat demons are the evil in the heart, and cute cats are the reverence for nature in the faith.
I also like these Japanese Chinese translations too much.
For example, "Escape is shameful but useful", "We still don't know the name of the flower we saw that day", "If we can ride the waves with you", "Spring is short, the girl is moving forward!" "Adolescent pig-headed teenagers do not dream of dream girls", "Tomorrow's I date you yesterday".
Of course, I am not partial and hide my love for Korean drama titles.
For example, "It doesn't hurt to know much, it's a family", "Although it is mentally ill, it doesn't matter", "If the weather is good, I will go to you", "Very cheap, Maxima supermarket", "Pretty sister who often invites to dinner", "Although we leave every time, we will fall in love again".
It's no secret that I decided to pay for it because of the title of this anime – "I Want to Cry I Put on the Mask of a Cat" (hereinafter referred to as "The Mask"). Just listening to the title of the film, I feel the vitality of the adolescent girl escaping from the world, although shameful but useful, and finally moving forward to ride the wind and waves.
This new work written by Gang Ma is scheduled to be released in Japan on June 5, affected by the epidemic, and is now exclusively released by NETFILX, while the domestic broadcast rights are bought by Douyin and Watermelon Video.
The headlines have been transformed into comic special effects and various anime works on the line these days, and they have already started a battle with the B station and the short soldiers.
Speaking of the story of this anime, there is a kind of world structure of Miyazaki's "Cat's Reward", and the relationship setting of the body and soul exchange of Shinkai's "Your Name", of course, it is only similar, after all, the structure and setting of these two works are not original.
"The Mask" also tells the story between the teenage Miyo and the teenage Sunrise, both of whom have unhappy families and unbearable adolescent pains.
Miyo's parents divorced and her father remarried, and she lived with her father and stepmother, Miss Kaoru, and Hinode's father died early, and her pottery grandfather was about to retire, and she was under a lot of pressure.
Miyo, who says, "Hates the world and wants to destroy it," meets a cat who sells cat masks at the summer festival. When she became a little white cat, she happened to meet Sunrise, who showed great affection for the cat like his lost dog, Dairo.
Miyo becomes a substitute for Dairo, but also finds a long-lost feeling of care and being loved in Hinode, but she can't tell the boundaries between miyo and dairo, and finally chooses to be a cat forever when she becomes more and more disgusted with the divorced and reorganized family, so as to stay away from the human world.
At the same time, Sunrise also began to discover the "smell of sunshine" shared by Miyo and Ohro, as well as some actions and actions. But because of the pressure of his personal family, he never had the courage to face his inner feelings and choices.
It wasn't until Miss Kaoru had raised "soybean powder" for twelve years to replace Miyo into a human, and then debunked all this, that Sunrise and Miyo began their adventure of redemption on Cat Island.
The "Cat Island" in "The Mask" is like the "Cat Country" in "The Cat's Reward", and the adventure and redemption scene is like the 2018 Sakai Masato starring "Kamakura Monogatari".
In Japanese anime or monster culture, there is no special wall between the real world and the other world, and the other world or the other world is not all swords, mountains, fires, monsters and demons.
This point is presented in "Kamakura Monogatari", "Mask" or "Spirited Away".
The advantages and disadvantages of "The Mask" are obvious, even one, it is actually a story of ambiguous feelings between young boys and girls wrapped in the theme of "knowing and accepting the imperfect self", but it is divided into two halves.
Due to the direct pursuit of Miyo on campus and the sweet pet cat after the incarnation of the big lang, the details are in place and the psychology is delicate, so that the focus is on how this relationship ends. As a result, the story peak loops, and even lets the soybean powder insert a bar, directly reversing the direction of the story.
I do like this passage of soybean flour, even if it makes the ambiguous flavor of the story a little lighter.
Huang Dou Powder was Miss Kaoru's childhood playmate, and she has been with her for twelve years, which translates to an adult life expectancy of about 64 years. Soybean Flour knew that he didn't have much time, but he wanted to accompany Kaoru, so he decided to become a human to continue to protect. If the story between them has a previous history, it is reminiscent of Miyazaki's "Witch House Rush".
The story of the witch Kiki and the black cat Gigi touched me when I was young, and it was also a story about finding self-worth and ultimately growing up.
Soy bean powder incarnates as Miyo and strives to improve the relationship with her stepmother Kaoru, but it does not expect that its identity as a cat is irreplaceable, and Kaoru does not give up looking for her good friend Sodou Powder because of Miyo's transformation.
This made the soybean powder trance, why bother to incarnate as someone else. So I found the sunrise and explained the truth of the matter, which led to the final cat island rescue.
From the perspective of this theme, "The Cat's Reward" is more explicit than "The Mask".
"The Cat's Reward" tells the story of Koharu, an ordinary, kind but unconfident high school girl, who also has a crush on Machida Jun, who lives in the experience of her accidentally saving a cat and transforming, starting a fantasy adventure.
Xiao Chun did not expect that the cat she saved was the crescent prince of the cat country, and in order to repay the favor of the cat country, the whole family went out collectively. The front of Koharu's house is covered with a cattail plant; When Koharu goes to school, he finds that the school cabinet is full of "beautifully packaged" rats; Elvis invited her to visit the Cat Country, and when she was a guest in the Cat Country, she vaguely agreed to marry the prince of the Cat Country as a wife.
Xiaochun lives a confused life in real life, the family is full of chicken feathers, school is often late, and people with crushes do not have the courage to confess. The appearance of the Cat Duke makes Koharu realize that his confusion may be irreparable, that is, to become a cat.
And the people in the cat country are people who "can't control their own time", when Koharu grows cat claws and cat ears, the cat duke always reminds her that she "can't lose herself", this theme is consistent with "The Mask". There is also a similarity in appearance to Koharu, who grows cat's claws, and Hinode, who first entered Cat Island.
Miyazaki's cat inherits the transgender way of the cat in ukiyo-e, conveying the humanistic concept of anti-war and great love, as well as his idea of advocating Shintoism. However, "The Cat's Reward" is not outstanding in Miyazaki's sequence of works, mainly for different audiences.
"Cat's Reward" is different from the grand setting and deep thoughts of "Spirited Away", "Princess Mononoke", and "Castle in the Sky", and is more like a fable story, a bedtime story, telling young boys and girls to be true to themselves, to accept their imperfect selves, and to strive to become a better self.
In this way, this "I Want to Cry I Put on the Mask of a Cat" also takes this route, even if there is a bridge section to exchange soul bodies, it does not want to be as high as "Your Name" to the level of philosophy.
On a hot summer day, such a work that makes people want to see after hearing the name, why be harsh on the level that does not belong to it.
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