Main Character
Mermaid and the boy
Plot
Boy found a mermaid at the sea, then brought her back home to admire it in the tank and show it to his parents, although all they could see was just a normal fish. He was tortured and punished to forget about fish, because he lived in the world where imagination was not allowed.
Ending
He run and escaped back home although he was starting to forget about the mermaid. He brought fish back to sea where they first met. He brought himself into the sea with fish, at the very end, two mermaid was jumping and playing beyond the horizon while policeman are watching from the cliff by the sea.
Message
I think at the end, the imagination became reality. In this world, people often segregated from being different and minority, because majority of people tries to vanish them to make everyone looks the same. Tezuka wanted to tell us how imagination is pleasure thing that only human can, and all the people has right to freely express theirselves.
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
