I was planning to write the blog last night but it turned out that I fell asleep on my bed with my pc on my lap.. :O

Characters:

A boy, fish (which turns into a mermaid in the boy's imagination), parents, police

Relationship:

The boy is in love with the mermaid but the police is against the boy's imagination

Setting:

Probably a country ruled by strict communists and where one's free imaginations or beliefs were not acceptable.

Conflict:

The boy sees the fish as a mermaid while everyone else only sees the fish itself. He starts to doubt his mind why people are so skeptical about what he is seeing with his own eyes. Then the police come to chase him and confines him in a jail to make him forget about the mermaid.

Climax:

The boy returns to the sea with the mermaid, leaving behind the country where freedom is restricted. I personally think that all his imagination came in reality in where he headed for.

This story made me think what freedom is and what Tezuka Osamu wanted to convey people by creating this story.