I still remember the screenshots in the animation that major anime magazines put up in those days - the girl and the railroad tracks that continued to the distant horizon, and the tall tower that seemed to stand on the other side of the clouds. At that time, Makoto Shinkai, who only began to fully enter the public's attention, brought his gentle and distant poetic animation, matched with Tianmen's soft and distant soundtrack, to tell such a story about a promise.
The first Yunbi I contacted was actually the novel version of Yunbi written by Shinta Garner. Although it was an animation adaptation, the novel actually added many details that were not described in the animation. To this day, I still remember the dullness of the novel in the summer classroom. After the girl Zoyuri and the boys made that promise, they never showed up again, and the boys spent a long, long, dull summer because of this. I remember that the novel version uses a very long chapter to describe this part. Although the plot is very bland, the depressing atmosphere from the text surrounds me. It seems that there are cicadas chirping and the hot air from the scorching sun. And after being liberated from that chapter, like a suffocated body getting oxygen, I instantly feel refreshed, but every time I think of that feeling of being unable to release, it is so clear, like asking for help to passersby, but But no sound came out.
If you ask me what Yunbi's story is about, I may be stunned, and then I say that I don't know very well. From before to now, I still can't fully understand what Makoto Shinkai wants to explain in this story, I only know that this is a story about a promise between a boy and a girl. And if I say why I love this one among the several works of Makoto Shinkai, I think it is because of the distant dreams and the open blue sky in those boyhoods. Everyone will have such a dream when they are young, or a desire for some unattainable things. Those things stand there like a symbol in our young hearts, even if they will be forgotten or even forgotten when they grow up, but that It is indeed a place that once held a large part of our hearts, and even sometimes we think, that that is all. And the open blue sky is like an infinite dream, staring at it, sometimes it seems that everything is possible, and the past, present and future under the vast screen seem to be connected again. , infinitely replayed in our hearts, minds, and eyes.
Just as jets are handsome and loved by teenagers, the youth and dreams of that distant era are all remembered and reminisced together.
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