untouchable lovers

Cullen 2022-09-16 12:01:45

After watching it, I couldn't calm down for a long time. Although I could predict the ending early in the morning, when it really happened, I was endlessly sad and overestimated my tears.
So I thought, something has to be written, those moving episodes.


Quiet and warm like the style of Natsume's friend's book, in the summer with mottled tree shadows, she lost her way in the forest and met the boy named Ajin with silver hair and a fox mask who could not be touched by humans. Grabbing the branch he handed over, he was led out of the labyrinthine forest. Because of curiosity, I wanted to know more, and I hoped to meet again, so the agreement was reached.
The second meeting was as impulsive as always, and he rushed towards the person in front of him, but was knocked on the head with a branch. The same is true for the third meeting. The fascinated teenager took her to many places. Although he was always doing boring things, he was still very happy. Then on that quiet afternoon, she saw the face of the boy under the mask, a quiet, lazy, gentle face.


It was a young man who could not be touched. Falling from a tree because of play, the teenager wanted to reach out and run to catch it, but finally stopped. After falling into the bushes, she got up and smiled and said to the boy, no matter what happens, don't touch me, okay? In the end, her hearty voice turned into a crying voice uncontrollably. She covered her face and cried, while the boy looked at her quietly, wearing a mask, unable to read the expression.
As the days passed, Loli became a girl, the distance from the boy gradually shortened, and her mood also changed. It seems to have become more greedy, want to see him, not only in summer, want to touch him, although it can't be achieved.
This is love. People are the product of desire integration. For the people and things they love, they always yearn for more, want to possess, and want to have them all the time.
——I want to touch Ah Jin, because I love him from the bottom of my heart.
Now, Akin, let's stay together until time takes us apart.


The boy wants to take her to the summer festival of the monster, saying that he will protect her. She smiled and said that she was so moved that she wanted to pounce. The teenager only said "then come over, it's just what I want", and there was no emotion on the face under the mask. At the summer festival, in order to prevent them from straying, they tied cloth strips on their wrists. She joked that it was like a date, but the boy smiled and said seriously, it was a date.
I can't wait for summer. Once we are separated, I want to see you even if the crowd is over, the boy said.
Since both parties are in the same mood, is there no need to confirm face-to-face? The kiss through the mask is gentle and affectionate.


Accidents always happen near the end, unexpected, but reasonable. When the boy stared blankly at his glowing fingers, he suddenly smiled relievedly, opened his arms to her, and said with a smile, "Come on, I can finally touch you." She took off her mask and ran away, hugging each other tightly in a glow of fluorescent light, smiling contentedly and happily, and then fell to the ground with her empty clothes in her arms. Tears seem to touch at this moment.
"I like you."
"Well, so do I."


After the PS, I recommended it to many people, and they asked if it was HE or BE, and I couldn't answer. At the end of the film, I couldn't help crying because of sadness, like BE. But for Ah Jin and Yingying, they were finally able to confirm their feelings and touch each other, and it was like HE. Falling in love but unable to touch, I think this is more regrettable than anything else.

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To the Forest of Firefly Lights quotes

  • Takegawa Hotaru: Time might separate us some day. But, even still, until then, let's stay together.