Variety civet cats-survival of the fittest

Elta 2022-04-23 07:03:43

A story of chubby fat men fighting for their homeland. Watching them frown, pat their stomachs, and sway chanting incantations, I can't help but laugh.

Until their hard-working parade was taken over by humans, their angry and sad looks made me also wipe away tears. Their purpose is not fame and fortune, they just hope that humans can know the existence of civet cats, and they just hope that their homes will not be destroyed.

The fox said to the elder, "survival of the fittest, we can live in their world like humans." "What about the civet cats that won't change shape? Does it matter whether they live or die?" The fox is also helpless, there is no way, the fittest Survive and survive.

It's cruel, as if you have to face this law no matter where you are. Being forced to grow up, being forced to do things you don’t want just to survive, doesn’t seem like an exaggeration, or even justified. But always feel sad.

The elder and the mother-in-law said to the camera with tears in their eyes: We did all those things. The mountain area is our homeland. I hope you don't destroy it. Then all the civet cats turned into rabbits, deer, bears and other small animals, they surrounded reporters and photographers, and finally turned into fireflies and flew away.

This is not just the story of the tanuki.

Suddenly I wondered, would I be walking on the road and encounter a human being transformed into a civet cat or other small animal?

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Extended Reading

Pom Poko quotes

  • Narrator: A few tanuki went into real estate and got rich, selling forests to developers. They're no different from the humans.

  • Narrator: Some raccoons sold real estate, and, unable to resist the money they could make, promoted leveling even more forests.

    [Seizaemon, in human form, is shown on the phone]

    Seizaemon: I've got a prime piece of forest just waiting to be developed!