1. Summary
This video begins with a boy meeting a beautiful mermaid. As they play and swim together, they become good friends and the boy decides to show the mermaid to his parents. When he arrives his home, he puts her into a big fish tank and calls his parents to see her. However, what his parents saw was a little fish, not the mermaid. The boy tries really hard to tell them that it is mermaid, but his parents never believes him. Everyone thought that he was having a weird imagination, so he was taken to the police. After that, many kinds of experiments were done to him to change his thinking, but the boy couldn't easily forget about the mermaid. He escapes from the prison and goes back to his home and see the tank. What he saw in the tank was no more the mermaid, but it was only the little fish. Then, the boy walks into the sea to release the fish, while many police watching from the behind. At the end, the fish and the boy turns into the mermaid and they swim together into the deep sea.
2. Messeage
I think Osamu tried to change the idea of not being allowed to think or imagine in an original way. The boy gets discriminated only when he insisted that the fish is the mermaid. All of the people around him, even including his parents became the boy's enemies. Many kinds of people live in one society, therefore, there should be no correct or wrong. Everyone should understand each other's different thoughts and ideas, and respect them. There is no need for every single people in the society to have an exactly the same ideas and follow the same way.
3. Ending
At the very end of this video, the boy and the mermaid swim together and go to the sea. After this, I think all the police and his parents will recongnize that the fish was actually the mermaid and they feel very sorry for him because they have been discriminated him for a lont time. This happening becomes a great news and people in the society starts to rethink about the concept of everyone having the same ideas. The law of which to execute the one who has different thoughts would be eliminated. The society changes into a place where people respect each other, and everyone puts great effort to live cooperatively. Happy ending!
