Xin Haicheng's new work "Weathering With You" is finally here. I noticed an interesting thing. Brother Cheng's popular previous work "Your Name" was released on December 2 in mainland China in 2016. The slogan "Let's Watch Together" touched thousands of couples and won 576 million domestic box office, setting the highest box office record for Japanese animation films in China.
"Your Name" can be regarded as the work with the highest degree of story completion and the most satisfactory ending among all Cheng Ge's current works. This time, the schedule of "Weathering With You" is selected on November 1st, the Little Singles' Day, which can't help but give people rich associations. What does this imply?
Since Makoto Shinkai's first animated film, he has been committed to creating a world for the audience with the temperament of a middle-schooler and a young boy who moves forward bravely. This time in "Weathering With You", the teenager breaks free, the girl manipulates the weather, and changes her life against the sky to meet you. Shinkai Makoto's animation reflects the youth we most yearn for in Japanese animation.
purest love
There are three treasures in Makoto Shinkai's works, more exquisite wallpaper-like pictures than the original scene, regretful feelings, and beautiful youth. Yes, Makoto Shinkai, who was born in 1973, tirelessly depicts the story of adolescence in his works. From his first released animated film "Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place" to his latest work "Weathering With You", no matter how the world changes, the protagonists of the works are always teenagers.
The background of the story of "The Other Side of the Cloud, Where the Promise is" is slightly sci-fi. Three teenagers and girls made an appointment to build a plane together and fly to the other side of the cloud to see the scenery there. The three of them wandered around in various places and embarked on different life journeys, but they never forgot their original agreement.
Later, the girl lost her memory in a deep sleep, and the boy got on the plane. This story cannot stand scrutiny, but Makoto Shinkai established his beautiful style of painting, with a large blue sky, neat and poetic buildings, silhouettes of boys and girls in the sunset, and the lush Aomori sea of trees, blowing for a while. A grassy summer breeze...
Then came "Five Centimeters Per Second", still focusing on teenagers, telling an ordinary youth love story. The 13-year-old couple was forced to separate. After 13 years, the two met and passed by, but they were already Unable to recognize each other, the two separated by the train have traveled thousands of miles since then.
This animation created a golden sentence, "If the speed of cherry blossoms falling is five centimeters per second, how long does it take for two hearts to get close?" Such a hypocritical dialogue makes the audience unforgettable, because Brother Cheng told us that in those years we Confessions that I dare not say out loud, every adult, in the youthful days of flowers like jade, must have such a TA who can't love them. animations, awaken memories and make them shine again.
And then to "The Garden of Words", it talks about the love between teachers and students, the endless rain, the forbidden love that can't be rushed. Even so, I still run into the rain for you. "The Garden of Words" is like a picture scroll that has overturned the green paint, turquoise, dark green, matcha green, avocado green, fashion bloggers should be able to find a lot of color matching inspiration in this animation, with pattering rain The curtain looks very youthful, moist, rich and vivid. The ending of this work is still unclear, and fans are in tears.
Perhaps to make up for the fans' regret, in "Your Name", Makoto Shinkai finally gave the hero and heroine a happy ending. When the comet hits, the boys and girls who swap bodies, with the sprouting of adolescence, run up to save the whole village. It seems to be a story of saving the world, but in fact it is still about young love.
In order to meet you, I will not hesitate to fight against the meteorite with my flesh and blood. The couple who missed out on "Five Centimeters Per Second" finally held hands in "Your Name" and when they rubbed shoulders, they recognized each other. Love at first sight, goodbye for a lifetime, what a happy ending.
Such pure youthful love is commonly found in Japanese animations. A "Girl Who Travels Through Time and Space", which is also constantly running and smashing into you, is also densely filled with a youthful and restless heart. The work of Mamoru Hosoda tells the story of a girl Makoto who accidentally acquired the ability to travel through time and space. She foolishly used this ability to avoid trivial matters such as being late and on duty. When she encountered a confession from a future teenager, she did not know how to deal with it, so she also used this ability. To escape through time and space... Later, Makoto realized that this confession is more precious than any words.
The young man hugged Makoto and said "I will wait for you in the future", which blinded countless girls. This sentence comforted the girl in the night when she was struggling to read "Five-year College Entrance Examination and Three-Year Simulation", and comforted Bei Piao in the early morning when she grew up working overtime and took the last bus to go home, and ironed it at every meeting where the boss was picky about the plan. Pace the broken heart of the social animal.
The innocence of youth can still be used for many years later. It is precisely because of the young you who loved me unreservedly and unconditionally that I can persevere in the nights when I want to give up countless times in the future. Japanese animation is able to portray this unforgettable first love of youth to the heart, and it can make the audience who have reached middle age cry in front of the screen.
hottest summer
Eason Chan has a song about youth, "White Sneakers", "At a certain age, I finally understand that most of the beautiful things seem to happen in youth." I will accept that all the beautiful things in youth happen in summer.
On the basketball court, the teenagers practiced their skills hard, dribbling, tossing, and laying the ball in a wide basketball uniform. The orange basketball that was thrown with the perfect parabola fell into the box steadily. The chin "ticks" to the ground and evaporates...
By the river, Junmei high school student skipped class, wearing a blue hoodie with a backpack on his back and riding a bicycle, the setting sun gilded him with a layer of gold border, "Where is this fairy coming down to the world?" …
In front of the tram stop, boys and girls in summer school uniforms waved their hands across the rails. This scene has become an internet celebrity punch-in scene many years later.
The above are all the plots in the "Bible" and "Slam Dunk" in the hearts of basketball teenagers born in the 1980s and 1990s. During the hot summer vacation, I watched Sakuragi Flower Road with red hair showing eight teeth over and over again. Smirking, watching Kaede Rukawa dunk dunks chicly, watching Mitsui Shou lying on the ground crying and shouting "Coach, I want to play basketball!", watching them training for the national competition without sleep. Then the little boy in front of the TV felt the weight of "dream" for the first time, his heart was full of blood, and he also tried to stick to the things he loves, grab the basketball and set off.
After all, in the hot summer, if you don't do some intense exercise to sway your hormones, it seems a pity for the golden sunshine. As a result, one summer episode after another appealing for blood, appeared. "Free! "Men's Swimming Club" is an animation full of all summer symbols, sunshine, swimming pools, bikinis, mermaid lines... Open this show, teenagers with six-pack abs and slender limbs are running up and down in the water , the blisters float and drift with the rhythm, so beautiful as if there is no pain in this world, it is a cup of mint tea in the summer afternoon.
In Japanese animation, there is also an indispensable scene - the summer festival. The girl tied up her hair in a bun, put on a gorgeous kimono and yukata, went out beautifully, went on a date at a temple fair, fished for goldfish, made hoops, and ate balls... There is also a fireworks display that should not be missed, watching the gorgeous fireworks bloom in the summer night, It is the most magnificent ceremony of the year.
A Japanese animation director who is obsessed with spinning in his youth, there are summers in his life that will never end, and we grew up watching these animations. Every time we hear the familiar melody of "Slam Dunk", even if there is no time machine, I can also go back to the summer of chasing dreams. I remember the boys who fell and stood up again and again on the court, the cheerleaders who blushed and shouted cheers, and you who still shined until the end of the world.
Such a hot, splendid and moving summer is always reluctant to live up to it. The famous Japanese writer Osamu Dazai had to finish the summer before committing suicide. A linen kimono with mouse gray pinstripes is a kimono suitable for summer, so I'll live until summer first."
middle school boy
After reading "Harry Potter", I firmly believe that one day when I open the window, an owl will send an admission notice to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; after assembling the gunpla, I begin to imagine the appearance of taking a special machine to fight the universe; taking a nap Woke up with a sense of melancholy, it must be because the sailing adventure has not yet succeeded... These are also the symptoms of chuuniu that will definitely exist in Japanese animation. Welcome to the world of chuanji disease.
In 2012, Jing Ani produced a "Secondary Sickness Also Falling in Love", which comprehensively showed the current situation of the cuteness of the middle two teenagers. And I prefer "In Shimo Sakamoto, what are you doing?" produced by Studio DEEN in 2016. ", a 360-degree presentation of the large-scale playful costume X scene of the second disease.
"What are you doing in Shimo-Sakamoto? "The male protagonist Sakamoto, a high school student who may be the most pretending to be X in this century. He wears black-rimmed glasses and has an ecstasy tear mole under his left eye. Every move is gorgeous and unrestrained. Wherever he goes, there are countless murders of film, and the star-chasing girl frantically shouts "Sakamoto Sakamoto, give me a kiss!"
Such a man who is like a firefly in the dark, cool when he eats, cool when he does his homework, cool when he is on duty with a broom, and even the white sneakers on his feet tell of his pride. Sakamoto naturally attracted the jealousy of boys of the same age. They tried every means to bully Sakamoto on campus, but helplessly, they were all resolved by the handsome Sakamoto with an IQ of 800. In the end, these boys also bowed down to Sakamoto's school uniform pants. At the end of the story, Sakamoto, who conquered the earth, was selected by NASA and decided to conquer the universe.
Sakamoto is an existence that violates the laws of nature, doing all the things we imagined but couldn't do, and fulfilling our unfulfilled dreams. This kind of middle school, although it will be scorned by adults, can support ordinary teenagers to go through a dark and unclear period of depression.
The author who can create these brain-hole works must also have a middle school child who comes out to be funny from time to time. For example, in Rumiko Takahashi's "Ranma 1/2", the protagonist Ranma, who is both male and female, turns into a girl when exposed to cold water, and turns back into a man when exposed to hot water. This special physique makes Ranma more than just Girls are chasing marriages, and there are a bunch of officials under their skirts; in the animation, there are also handsome Lu Chi who turns into a pig when exposed to cold water, and a cute doctor who turns into an idiot when he sees his sweetheart...
When I was young, I was only fascinated by the appearance of Ranma. When I grew up, watching this animation, I felt that this animation was 50 years ahead of its time. It simply satisfied all the fantasies of the LGBT community.
Makoto Shinkai said in an interview that when he created, he often imagined his teenage self as one of the audiences. Create for the past self, create for the youthful self, romantic and gentle.
Youth is a road of no return, and it will never return. Fortunately, in these animations, the best youth is preserved. The ignorance, struggle, yearning, and passion of youth are all carefully excavated and delicately expressed. It understands us. Because of this understanding, the once reckless teenager shook hands with the past and himself in one animation after another, and learned to live in harmony with the world. When I became a social animal as an adult and felt that life was difficult, I would hide in these animations to avoid the limelight. As long as I open "Cherry Maruko", there will be endless summer vacations in my life.
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