Summary
Once upon a time, there was a boy who found a little fish which he sees as a beautiful mermaid. He took her home with him, but in this country, imagination was banned. The government found him and forced him to go through many experiments to make him see a fish as it is, not a mermaid.
Evaluation
I think this is a kind of a story which could be taken in many different ways. At the ending, What I saw was the boy and the mermaid going beyond the sea where there is a freedom in imagination. I assume that when this animation was created, it was a tough and depressing time for people. In my opinion, Tezuka Osamu's message through this film was that people always have imagination to escape from the reality. The reason why I want to believe it is an happy ending is I genuinely think Mr.Tezuka wanted to encourage people to be imaginative. As a manga and animation creator, that was the way to spread the beauty of imagination to the world. We, young people nowadays could also take this advise and use imagination to either to escape from the really for a while, or create something unique out of it.
Key words
imagination, freedom, unique
