After watching it, I couldn't let it go for a long time. I desperately searched for commentaries, extras, and to see if there was a next season. See if there is an answer that fits me best.
Probably a big reason is that it is not like most other anime, even if there are many important characters, the male and female protagonists will eventually identify one they really like. Regardless of being together, such as "Duanzi Big Family". Or just make it clear, such as "Unknown Flower Name".
I have this kind of trouble and obsession, probably mainly because I'm used to it. Get used to the end of the movie, there is an ending, there is a destination. I don't want to accept it, only halfway through, life and death, and then parting ways. I hate to admit that parting ways is also an end - and in the same way, in my life, I've deceived myself and can't let go of the past that's long gone.
The second reason, maybe I don't know what answer I want, and the heroine is also ambiguous. Ren is taciturn, but also firm and gentle, careful as dust, the wind is tired and can't keep up, only Ren will speak slowly and wait for her. The wind fell down the waterfall, and Jen jumped off the waterfall himself and said, "I'm no different from a dead person." I don't know if I'm thinking too much: Ren thought Feng was dead and felt that he had no purpose. It was his own life experience that made him say so. But Ren later found Feng's clogs and said to Feng, "I thought you were dead, and I planned to enshrine your remains" or something. Later, on the eve of Shengyue Island's parting, the riverside conversation, Ren's unfinished words "If, I...", I was surprised how Ren could deal with the wind. Zino, who met on the way, wanted to help her if she liked it. I thought at the time that the two of them would really run away. Later, after watching so many episodes, how could I lose my benevolence and feel relieved. He is undoubtedly an affectionate and persistent person.
Wuhuan is enthusiastic and straightforward. His character is like his walking monk's shorts and shorts and a simple red jacket. He is upright and unrestrained. In comparison, Ren's long dress is very gentle and tangled. Feng told Wuhuan that Ren was very perfunctory in his speech and did not open his heart to them. In fact, I think Wuhuan, who loves bickering and sarcastic words on the surface, is even more difficult to understand, and it is difficult to see him revealing his heart in front of others. Wuhuan is a very principled person. In a small town, he said to a person who did not follow the samurai "pole way", "Don't make excuses for living, you are the one who decides your way of life". Feng is in danger anyway, he is willing to die, of course Ren is also, they don't seem to care about life and death.
The heroine's attitude is ambiguous. In the play, the blind girl said that she wanted to take one of them away, and let Fengxuan not want to leave anyone else. Fengxuan was Ren to leave without illusions. Although she said that Jen wouldn't do lewd things, she was more at ease. But everyone knows that it will be difficult to see each other again. Ren simply agreed, but Feng cried and said that they had been together for so long, but Ren did not hesitate at all. Finally, I went to Ren, saying that Ren might come back. After discovering Wuhuan's blind female confrontation, Wuhuan will die, the wind flutters on Wuhuan to protect him, or at worst, he would rather die with Wuhuan.
If I am the heroine, I have to choose, and I know that Ren is very good, and I also know that Wuhuan is actually more like a friend. But intuitively, I may still prefer to be a little more illusory. Without much reason, intuition is the answer.
I liked the trip the three of them took together and tried to avoid thinking about the eventual separation. It's not all like "Tomb Notes", where the three male protagonists end up living together or traveling together. Of course I've had other ideas too, like finding a samurai with a sunflower scent, like waiting for Godot, just a lie and a romantic excuse. Renhe Wuhuan looked at Feng's diary and found this but didn't reveal it. The three kept looking for it. The absurdity of this anime may be a little more. This is also the fantasy that I hope the three of them can keep walking together forever.
But I'm still not satisfied. I'm a person who always wants an answer to everything - maybe I'm a bit of a jerk. Until I saw a sentence on the bullet screen at station B, it made me feel empowered, and it was also the direct reason for me, a lazy person, to stay up late to write drama reviews. It's that monk, the master who kills people and serves the rising dragon may have already said the answer. That sentence is:
"All meetings are once in a lifetime."
Note, "all". I think that maybe this monk has reached the point of knowing the destiny, and he has long understood that their current journey is only a short-term intersection, and in the future, they will "only forget each other in the rivers and lakes". Besides, even if there are husbands and wives who can't live together forever, no matter how much they love each other, they always have their own destiny. I suddenly thought of the Korean documentary "Dear, Don't Cross That River". Japanese documentary "The Fruit of Life".
Although, although it is said that the right to choose in life is in my own hands, there are too many factors that affect the choice. Looking back, I often feel that everything at that time was accidental and inevitable. For a moment, I really felt that this sentence was the answer and the foreshadowing of the ending.
In fact, this ending is not impossible. The monk also said that "we traveled together, just like parents and family." Such a good three, it is very likely that there will be cracks due to the choice of the wind to one side. It is also possible that the 15-year-old girl, who looks careless, already understands that maybe the separation of the three is the best choice for everyone. It suddenly occurred to me that Sophie and Sid in "Sophie's World" are both 15-year-old girls. Also an interesting coincidence. Rather than let any one of the three feel sorry, it is better to let them all go. Everyone can have a good memory.
This is like the meaning in "Besieged City". In fact, whether you get it or not, you will regret it. Well, I accept this ending now. Forget it, I'm a melodrama, and I don't want to brush it as much as I like it.
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