This animation based on the comic of the same name and released in 1995 has no crossings and no meteors. There are also no strong monsters and magical colors. It is just an ordinary little story in a small town where the male and female protagonists encourage each other to learn from each other and strive for their own ideals.
The heroine Tsukishima Wen, a third grader of junior high school, is a straightforward, cheerful, sunny girl who loves to read. In the days when library cards were still used, in the library, almost every library card of science fiction had Tsukishima Wen's name on it.
The male protagonist, Tianze Shengji, is also in the third grade of junior high school. He is in the same school as the heroine but in a different class. Dreams of becoming a great violinist.
She has been paying attention and secretly in love with Tsukishima Wen. In order to attract attention, she began to read a lot and made her name appear on the library card in advance. In the age of no mobile phones, everything was so beautiful.
A country music "Take Me Home Country Roads", which was translated into the Japanese version of "Country Roads", as the main theme, runs through the entire animation.
The story takes place at the end of the summer vacation, the breath of summer, the flying insects flying around the light pipe downstairs...
The quality of the animation in 1995 is not as bright as it is now, but the old feeling is very clear, the story in memory is like the story, and the hand-painted storyboards of each frame are worth watching carefully.
Although it tells an ordinary story, there is no magic fantasy. But in this animation, the vast clear sky and the breeze that often appear, also make people feel the coolness, just like flying in the sky.
The delicate control of characters' expressions and movements is naturally a standard feature of Hayao Miyazaki's animation, but in animations such as "Listen to the Side" and "Grave of Fireflies", it can be felt even more without the background of the magical world.
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