“I opened the window and saw the Bay of Tisa in the dark. I closed my eyes and heard the familiar sound of the sea.”
Tokyo and Kyoto are not new to me because of the people I know living in them, but the two “small places” fascinate me more. One is Ehime of Kanji Nagao, and the other is Kochi, Kochi of Roam Sakamoto, and Kochi of “the one who sleeps in the bathtub.”
Kochi is not a big city, even sometimes feel “rural”, but Kochi has its own unique flavor: the city is quiet after the lights are turned on, at this time, you can look up and see Kochi city standing in the night, the twinkling lights merge with the sky, and it is beautiful.
A story once happened here.
Suzuki Take ran from one side of the platform to the other, looked around in vain, the camera rotated 360 degrees, Muto Stake appeared in front of him, slightly tilted his head, held down his long hair, hands together, and gently bowed – this is the most impressive scene at the end of the film in the history of animation. I remember that there was only a VCD version of “Hear the Waves” when it first entered the mainland. It was cut off in the 72nd minute because of time constraints. How is this going on? “, holding such a regret in many years after holding the DVD version of the complete appreciation, how the mood can be imagined
It’s fitting that this is the end of a work of unforgettable scenes.
Take and Rigato strolling through a dwindled summer path is one of the most frequently displayed images outside the film. Although it is a short shot, the feeling contained in the white space is indescribable. The key word in this scene is silence.
Too and Fang meet after the university, two people walk in the dock, the sunset will be two boys back drag very long very long, Matsudo fang speak, Du Qi Too said nothing to listen, they both looked at the distance of the sea line, the key word of this scene is friendship.
What I love most, of course, is the scene where they stand looking up at the town of Kochi after the class reunion. Everything in the past appears like a slideshow before Take. “This is a scene I want to see with Rigato.”
Quiet, friendship, missing, reunion, these originally vulgar terms but in the hands of the animation supervision of the moon Zha filled burning flash, the achievement of such a best work.
How did Hear the Waves come into being? Based on the acclaimed young adult novel of the same name by Hank Immure, Glibly, led by Toshio Suzuki, Hayao Miyazaki, and Hoshi Takada, decided to make a breakthrough after feeling that the animation they had been doing for years was in the “Miyazaki mode”. As Toshio Suzuki put it, “You can’t make anything new out of the old… So I decided to leave it all to the young people.” And so you have this TV movie made entirely by a new generation, the first outsourced glibly production, the first fully faithful adaptation of the original, the glibly animation that “we can all relate to, we all love,” and of course, Miyazaki has long criticized it, Maybe a little jealous?
Art supervisor Nagoya Tanaka used the word “constant heat” to describe that Miyazaki Hayat’s animation always has a climax and a happy ending at the end, while Hearing Waves is a straight story from beginning to end, which is not Glibly, and is also the reason why Toshio Suzuki, an old man with a white beard, always insists that “this is suitable for young people”. Katya Kondo, who illustrated the original Little Talk (and was also the animation’s painting director), couldn’t even understand at the time why he chose something that wasn’t suitable for animation. “It’s not touching at all.”
Thanks to the persistence and compromise of all sides, we finally completed the Sound of Waves. In 1993, when it was released on TV, it achieved incredible ratings. At that time, all the young people were fascinated by the youth animation, “This is our story”.
The boy in the country falls in love with the girl who comes from the city. It is not until the two are separated that they slowly determine their feelings for her. This is a very clever or very in line with the audience (that is, a group of dead children watching animation) psychological setting, someone once analyzed the success of this work, “the boy’s perspective” is one of the main reasons. Boys cannot be like girls to understand them to understand girls, so Du Qi Too is always unable to grasp mute in the son of the current state of mind, she or happy or angry, the development of a variety of feelings for the son and affect their own mood, because do not know each other now think of what, for a long period of time always floating, There was even a misunderstanding for a while. Until Li Jiao Zip’s friend accidentally said such a sentence, “Li Jiao Zip said, she is looking for, is a person sleeping in the bathtub,” that time did not suddenly understand each other’s feelings.
Muto Retake is standing in the audience (or that group of dead children watching animation) opposite, her actions accompanied by psychology, we are not immediately known as the protagonist. Only that she was a young lady from Tokyo, of mixed style, ill-tempered, and taciturn. And then, because of a variety of things happened to her mature and immature produce more understanding， I don’t know, this is a very strong girl, against her mother, and when she came to Tokyo, she couldn’t see past what her father had done. Despite her “vanity” (she put on a high when she met her former boyfriend) and her compromise (she accepted her mother’s advice to enroll in Kochi University), she finally took her future into her own hands and went to university in Tokyo. “And” Looking for the man sleeping in the bathtub”
Matsudo fang is the third person, he put the male and female protagonists in series, relative to the expansion of the ignorant and the pride of the son, the full show is he does not match the age of maturity and sedate. He is different from his friend extension, because standing apart, so it is very clear that the mood of two people respectively, the extension like the son but take into account the mood of friends and give way, the son of the unknown feelings of the extension, these Matsudo fang fully know. That’s why he punched Suzuki at the end of high school, because “you were letting me.”
It has been more than ten years since the animation began, and three or four groups of people have already changed in the year of high school or college. Can the current people have the same feelings as them? Is it possible for the romance caused by regional differences, cultural differences and gender differences to happen now?
An aside: After Makoto Sinai’s 5 Cm in a Second came out, someone asked, “If the two people in Hear the Sound of Waves had been separated for a longer time, would the ending have been the same as Makoto Sinai’s two people?” The answer was a surprisingly unanimous “No way”. Du Saki Too and mute Gaze compared to GUI tree and Ming Li (second speed protagonist) to be stronger, more assertive grasp of two feelings and future, although there are including distance apart even cannot express their real mood such as such factors, but two people finally come together. Distance and time is never the deciding factor of feelings, really can decide only two people’s hearts. This is something Mr. Sinai’s protagonists may never experience.
In a short more than seventy minutes, Mochizuki Zha filled and others will be a successful end of the story, but if you have the heart to turn over the original novel will find that is not the case, this is because the animation is only the first, the original ink point more in the second, that is, the university life of Dusky Too. Too met a university named Tsumura know sand elder sister, at the same time in a party encounter in Tokyo reading Li Jiao son, mature of the former and wayward of the latter, Dusky Too hesitated and confused between two people. Take and Rigato deepen their understanding of each other through their rocky interactions, and the story ends with them walking hand in hand under a street lamp. The adaptation of the anime was successful, because the theme was “young and ignorant love”, and it would have been nice to meet at the station, but when I got the novel, I was surprised to find out that they had met in Tokyo — a small adaptation difference, but it completely separated the two. See the animation at the end, we will think that Riga son has been from wayward to mature, and the extension also firm their faith, the novel is not so, Riga son than high school period more from time to time to highlight helplessness and capricious, the extension is still as ignorant. On the other hand, this is very reasonable. As two people who just entered the university, compared with a year ago, it is impossible to say that there will be too much change. Gradually, slowly contact, the feelings of the two people slowly out.
Some people prefer the youth of the animation, while others feel that the “adult and realistic sense” of the novel is better. It is better to separate the two.
