Little Mermaid

The main characters of this story are a boy in a distant country who likes to daydream and a mermaid. One day the boy found a fish thrown on the beach when he gazed at sea from the seashore. Then he release the fish into a small pool and the fish changed into a mermaid. They liked each other soon and spend pleasant time playing the ocarina or the piano or swimming in the sea. The boy asked the mermaid to go to the town with him. Though the mermaid refused his suggestion, he took her to the aquarium in his house. He introduced the mermaid to his parents, but the mermaid was only a fish for them. Living in the country where people didn't be allowed to generate free ideas, he was examined and forced to denying the existence of the mermaid. But he never changed his insistence despite of putting to severe torture. The boy was given many books to forget the mermaid, therefore he ran away from the prison in fear of forgeting the mermaid. However, he was so shocked that the mermaid couldn't seen for him. Finally, he was founf by pursuer and went into the sea with the fish. Then the fish changed into the mermaid again in front of people who didn't believe the exsistence of the mermaid. I think what Tezuka Osamu wanted to tell us throgh this movie was the importance of having imagination and never acting against our own belif.