This is a cartoon without a protagonist, without a big hero, and the battle scenes are full of ease. The civet cats were happily fighting, as if it was just a game. They rejoice easily, and a little victory gives them enough reason to celebrate, party, sing, dance. They are easy-going and cheerful, and even when debating whether to kill all the humans, they drool over hamburgers, tempura, and decide to keep some of the humans. As Elder Jinshe said, a civet cat without a spirit of entertainment is not a civet cat.
But in the blink of an eye, human beings easily shattered their fragile dreams. Their desperate efforts are so meager in the eyes of human beings that they cannot hinder the process of residential development. Large areas of their homes have been lost, and they have fallen into depression and loss again, and even have of people advertised with the spectacle they created! The civet cats are angry, someone has stolen their honor, but they also do not accept the fox's condition - to work for humans. The gonta who advocated killing all human beings (doesn't know if the spelling is wrong?) finally ended his wish in a kamikaze-style way, sad! The 999-year-old elder, who was passively escaping, led the civet cat to escape, but the result was still death. Although they have mastered ancient illusions, and although countless warriors have sacrificed, in the end, they cannot save their homes. The civet cat that can transform becomes a human and lives the life of a clerk, while the one who cannot transform lives on the roadside and in the park, eating the garbage on the roadside. Living in the sewers, the civet cat crossing the road was hit and killed, and although signs were erected, it seemed too late.
Speaking of which, maybe it's just the typical ending of Hayao Miyazaki's animation. The animals are sad and reluctantly withdrew after paying a painful price. The endings of "Princess Mononoke" and "Nausicaa" are sour and tragic. They can never defeat humans, and ancient magic and cold weapons can never fight modern excavators and pistols. In the end, it's just the sacrifice of the large-scale, and the helpless departure.
But this cartoon is different. The overall style is relaxed. The battle of the civet cats is sometimes like a children's prank, full of knowing little joys everywhere. Will be happy for the four little civet cats, laugh at the elders' hip-hop pretending, laugh at the act of intimidating the human police, and admire the parade of the civet cats. The overall feeling of the picture is green, and the civet cat is always in a state of transformation and semi-transformation, which is very naive. At the end, the tanukis meet in the park's open space, and the tanukis who turned into humans also take off their clothes and turn back into tanukis to participate. They still sing and dance, and the past doesn't seem to have left any shadows. When they can't change, they adapt to this society, maybe this is the best ending for them. The easy-going and kind-hearted civet cats, may you continue to rejoice in this "forest" of reinforced concrete, don't lose your nature!
They say "as cunning as a civet cat", but how can a civet cat be more cunning than a human?
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