The theme and setting of "Forest of Fireflies" are the type that many people like: Ying, a little girl who goes to the village to live with an old man in summer, and Yin, a "monster" who meets in the forest.
The typical Japanese style, ordinary curiosity, nothing special, the cultivation of feelings is the same and monotonous in the summer vacation year after year, the only change is that Ying grows up, looks more and more beautiful in school uniforms, personality From the reckless and bold as a child, he has become delicate and sentimental.
And the most fascinating core of the story is that "untouchable".
This is the price of Yin after being abandoned by his parents and rescued by the Mountain God. He is neither a monster nor a human being, but a kind of spiritual thing. Once touched by a human, it will disappear and his form will be destroyed.
At the beginning, Ying was just curious, and wanted to touch it to see if it was like that, but was hit on the head with a branch by Yin Dong Dong Dong. She also felt scared, and was warned and frightened by other monsters in the Forest of the Mountain God, telling her not to touch the silver. At this time, it was just innocent novelty. But when she grew up to be as big as Yin, when she was indifferent to the other boys in the school, she could not wait to fly to the forest immediately... When she was in the mood of love, touch became a desire. And Yin is more eager to be touched, because he has never embraced a human being who has been abandoned since childhood.
"You can touch me," Yin said. "I'm serious."
People who are passionately in love can die for each other and sacrifice everything. Ying also made plans for the future, and went to work near the forest, so that she could be together regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. In fact, any adult knows that this is a mystery, an impossible assumption, and so do the monsters in the forest...
They go on their first date to go to the summer festival held by the monsters in the forest, which is the best moment in the story, and the moment when things go wrong. In the dialogue between Grandpa and Ying at the beginning of the story, the foreshadowing has already been laid: Grandpa's childhood friend once entered the forest by mistake and witnessed the funeral of the monsters.
Yin subconsciously helped a little boy who fell down, and this little boy was also a human who made a mistake. The puzzle was broken. Silver disappears from the moment it touches the hand of a human child.
"Now you can hug me." "Now I can hug you." All the grief and despair are too late to emerge, hugs and touches are the most impatient longings.
An instant became an eternity, and this was our first love. Sad and beautiful.
We long to relive being embraced and accepted in our first love, but those who lacked love and hugs when we were young are eager to be compensated in love. It's just that for most people, the more so, the sadder the first love.
The first love of "Forest of Fireflies" is beautiful. It not only fulfills a wish, but the beauty that it ends after it is completed hides the continuation of other stories.
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