Students who like to watch Japanese animation should have entered the pit of "Oka Ma" Okada Yuri's works.
She has worked as a screenwriter for many classic works, such as "Unknown Flower Name", "Dragon and Tiger", "Wandering Boy" and "Flower Blossom Iroha"...
Most of Gang Ma's works are emotionally delicate, either healing or abusive, and resonating.
The most famous of them should be "Unknown Flower Name" , which is simply a tear gas cannonball.
The picture of the disappearance of the face code is still vivid in my mind. One ED can make thousands of girls cry and harvest countless tears.
Recently, Gang Ma came again with her brand new tearjerker.
This work is a bit "different" -
"Want to cry, I put on a cat mask"
"Want to Cry, I Put on a Cat Mask" is co-directed by the famous Japanese directors Junichi Sato and Chitaka Shibayama, with Okada Hari as the screenwriter.
The film was originally intended to be released in theaters and was scheduled for June 5, but the impact of the epidemic was finally changed to an online premiere, which was broadcast simultaneously on Netflix and domestic video platforms.
Although it's a pity that it didn't land on the theater line as scheduled, but because of this, we saw Gang Ma's new work for the first time.
"Want to Cry, I Put on a Cat Mask" is still somewhat different from Gang Ma's previous works.
Friends who are familiar with Gang Ma should know that there are few imaginative settings in her works.
There is neither magical magic nor cool high-tech, but generally it is a story of ignorant boys and girls in the countryside, with a delicate and gentle style.
However, the setting of "Want to Cry, I Put on a Cat Mask" is a bit novel, telling the story of a girl who turned into a cat.
The heroine, Miyo Sasaki, is a junior high school student.
Because of her carefree personality, she often makes some strange actions to make the people around her understand incompetence, so the heroine has another nickname called "Infinite" .
Meaning: Honey Juice operates an infinite number of Wonder Woman.
The female protagonist has a crush on the male protagonist of the same class. As soon as the male protagonist appears, everyone else in the line of sight will become scarecrows.
The two met on the way to school, and the heroine asked Hinode to wait for her.
Hinode expressed that he didn't want to wait, and left indifferently.
The heroine is still in place YY:
"It's so sexy, do you hear that? He said I'm 'can't wait', it's too suggestive!"
And automatically made up many pink occasions for two people.
Girl, you think too much...
He even forcibly disturbed the male protagonist, using his mobile phone to record his voice as a song before going to bed:
"Let me record your voice with my mobile phone, I will listen to it before going to bed, I will definitely have a sweet dream!"
All in all, she is an idiot, chasing her fiercely, like a dog-skin plaster that cannot be thrown off.
The male protagonist was so bitter that he couldn't tell, at first he would express resistance, but in the end he was so tired that he regarded the female protagonist as air and ignored it.
The relationship between the two has always been one chasing and one running, unable to get close.
But after a chance coincidence, the heroine accidentally got a magical mask, which changed the fate of the two.
Anyone who wears this cat mask can transform into a cat form.
Therefore, ever since she got the mask, the female protagonist has to turn into a cat and run to the male protagonist's house every day after school.
Rubbing the trouser legs, begging for a lick, begging for a meal, begging for a hug.
Sticking to the male protagonist upright and open, doing some unspeakable things.
It's like licking a dog into licking a cat.
The male protagonist is also a proper cat slave .
The kitten felt uncomfortable after a day, not only gave it a nickname, but also always cooked special cat food for it.
I especially like to suck cats. When I checked the wound in the honey juice place for the kitten, the hostess was instantly ashamed (///).
It should be the brain hole of every star-chasing girl to become a boy who is close to his crush.
Simply beautiful! This transformed meow is also very cute~
Generally speaking, the fantasy setting in the film is actually more like Miyazaki's "Spirited Away".
In "Spirited Away", the heroine Chihiro strays into the world of gods.
Almost couldn't return to reality, and finally returned to reality with the help of Bai Long.
In "Want to Cry, I Put on a Cat's Mask", the heroine strayed into the world of cats.
Faced with the danger of becoming a cat forever, get through it with the help of the male lead.
It can be seen that the content of the two works is relatively similar.
However, although the setting of "Want to Cry, I Put on a Cat's Mask" is more fantastical, it seems to be different from Gang Ma's previous works.
In fact, in essence, it is still a healing story in the style of Gangma.
The delicate mind of the girl is vividly displayed in this film.
The heroine's home is a divorced family. Her parents divorced when she was in elementary school. She left with her father, who remarried soon after.
School bullying often occurs in Neon Country, especially children from divorced families who are easily excluded.
The heroine is one of them. She was isolated and ridiculed by her classmates at school.
Coupled with the impact of her parents' divorce, she closed her heart.
Although she always behaves carelessly, she actually suppresses her emotions every day. The reason why she wants to become a cat is because she is subconsciously escaping from reality.
In the scene of getting angry with his stepmother, all the extremes and awkwardness of his youth, and the hostility to the world after being injured are all shown.
Although she is really not cute in this scene, isn't that what the so-called teenager is like?
Immature and impulsive, like a prickly hedgehog.
But when she finally mustered up the courage to write a letter to the male protagonist to express her feelings and encourage the lost male protagonist, the letter was snatched by her classmates and read out on the spot.
The heroine's shame, helplessness, and anger were all moving, and finally she stubbornly shouted at the person who bullied her:
"Don't take my feelings lightly!"
It really makes people admire her calmness, she is very distressed, and she is so tearful.
This time, the reason why the heroine's emotions can be so delicately handled in the film is inseparable from Gang Ma's experience.
Gang Ma's parents divorced when she was 3 years old, and she also grew up in a divorced family. Because she was not good at expressing her thoughts since she was a child, she has been bullied since she entered elementary school.
In the previous "Blossom Iroha" and "The Heart Wants to Scream" , Oka Ma wrote about her past experiences. This time, the heroine in the new film still bears the epitome of Oka Ma.
This method of integrating self-experience into the creation is relatively easy to resonate, and many emotional portrayals are in place, very delicate, and can touch the hearts of the audience.
But the film also has some glaring problems.
First of all, the script of the film is relatively shallow.
It just applies the fantasy setting of a girl who turns into a cat, and discusses some of the commonplace issues of children from divorced families, but the script does not have any major breakthroughs, and the trend is basically predictable.
Second, the ending is too boring.
The Japanese love in the first half is more delicate and touching.
In the second half of the male lead, in order to save the female lead who is about to become a cat forever, they risked their lives to break into the world of cats.
Two people are you for me, I am for your concubine and the second, it is completely sensational and too forceful, but it is embarrassing.
The happy ending is also very boring, and the routine is obvious.
All in all, "Want to Cry, I Put on a Cat's Mask" is still a classic Japanese-style pure love animation, with touching scenes, but it is also inevitable that the second and the vulgar scenes are inevitable.
Still, the scenes with cats in the film are worth seeing.
It is simply a must for cloud-sucking cats. I believe that even if the men see it, they will be instantly cute~
Bluestone Films Editorial Office | Leslie
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