I'm not the only one crying over it

Adelbert 2022-03-22 09:02:30

Many of Miyazaki's animations highlight "environmental awareness". There have also been many times at the expense of spending a lot of money to highlight or highlight the strengths and weaknesses of human nature and at the same time to express "man and nature must be in harmony!"

However, in addition to "Grave of the Fireflies", "Heisei Tanaka War" is the only one. A Ghibli animation that made me cry.

These Japanese civet cats (actually raccoon dogs) live a very lively life of struggle, but in the end they still cannot resist the development of human civilization. What is this? In the end, they can only abandon their past lives, let the stone statues enshrined in front of the temple be covered with moss like foxes, and disguise themselves into the human world (whether it is true or false, whoever is still discussing this issue at this time should be dragged out TJJTDS).

So I got wet.

Not for those ideas that can be seen as a sigh of "the withering of traditional culture" or "the green hills in memory will never return", but only for the changes these Japanese civet cats have to make to survive. When A-Chun threw off his office worker's coat and ran to his long-lost companion crying and laughing, the salty water in his eyes finally burst out.

I don't care if someone laughs at me, I just cried.

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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!