The lost thing

Short summary

The man went to the sea to find new bottle cap. He found a wired look thing on the beach. He tryed to take it it's home hard. Finally they found the home of the lost things.

What's the main story, theme  what's the lost?

I think this video explains the process of being adult. When people get old, they have to think about their future. Then they lost thier imagination. Most people are not interested in the lost thing because of this. The  reason why he could see the lost thing is his childish hobby. When he found it, he was looking for bottle tops. The days with it means the life with child mind and the farewell to it means being adult. The author would send us a message that don't lose your imagination and curiosity even you become adult.

Symbol and metaphor

The city that is scarce in color = boringness

The lost things = imagination, pleasure

The Lost Thing

 "The Lost Thing" tells the story of a young boy who discovers a bizarre creature on the beach. He tries to find the creature's owner or proper home, but everyone around him denies its presence. Despite the lack of support, the boy feels terrible for the creature and embarks on a trip to find out where it belongs.

I think this story metaphorically prompts us to seek out hidden spaces of acceptance and understanding, where oddities and peculiarities are celebrated rather than marginalized.

The Mermaid

 What's the main idea/short summary ? 

There was a boy who found a mermaid at the ocean and brought it back home to show it to his parents. To the boy's shock, his parents could only see it as a fish. The boy is then sent to a facility where he is put through multiple experiments and mental torture to make him see the mermaid as a fish, like everyone else. Eventually, he stops being able to see the mermaid and becomes horrified by the fact. He goes back to the ocean out of desperation, and fortunately reunites with the mermaid. The two of them disappear into the ocean.

What do you think is going on? Social forces/commentary 

I believe that this is commenting on how individualism was heavily frowned upon in Japan at the time(still sort of is today) and the negative implications forcing everyone to the same mindset could have.

What happens at the end?

The boy is able to see the mermaid again and they both swim away in the ocean. The boy becomes a mermaid as well. 

The Lost Thing

 SUMMARY

The Lost Thing is about a boy who finds a strange looking creature on the beach. He plays with the creature for a bit but figures out that it is lost and he tries to find where it belongs. However, he can not seem to find it`s home. The people around him also seem to barely see the thing`s presence.

My Thoughts

I think this story represents the fact that things that are uniquedo not belong in this world. However I feel that the boy breaks the norm and helps the thing to find where it belongs. I also feel that the sotry shows that even if you are lost you can find importance and meaning in life.

The lost thing

 Summary 

A boy went to a beach to find a bottle, but instead he found a creature looks like an alien. He thought it was lost and he tried to find  its’ home. 

What is lost

What lost in the short film is innocence. Everyone around him didn’t think the creature was there. They ignored its presence, because they thought they knew about the world completely. They didn’t try to learn or explore. The boy could see the creature because he was innocent.I think this story try to tell we have to stay innocent to grow.

The Lost Thing

 Main story: 

The story is set in a dystopian society, where a man recalls the time he found a strange crab-like creature that seemed lost. He asks people throughout the city about the creature's whereabouts, but no one seems to know or care. Then, he goes to a facility advertised on TV for lost and found items, where he's informed by a janitor(?) working at the place to bring the creature to a different location if he really cares for it. After some traveling, the two reach the location and to the man's surprise, there were tons of creatures similar to the crab in the sense that they all looked quite goofy. He bids farewell to the creature and hasn't thought back to it much since.

The lost thing:

I believe the lost thing symbolizes childhood innocence/joy/imagination that tends to get fade away as you grow up and get into the "real world". There's a stark contrast between the location filled with the lost things and the human society, with the former being blindingly colorful and the latter being monotonous. No one in the city seems to care because they've either lost interest in it or are too busy with their own problems to give it any attention. 

The Lost Thing

 Summary 

 One day a man stumbles upon a weird looking creature in the beach which was later preferred as the "lost thing". Later the man was looking for the place where the lost thing belonged. At the end they found a place where there were many like the lost thing.

What is thing?

I believe the thing is like our imagination, back when I was I child, if I’m lost or if there is nothing in mind. I like d to imagine weird things in my head. I think it is something similar to it.

What I thought

I think the story is telling us about our imagination. When we were younger, we used to imagine many things, when bored, lonely or other occasions. But after we grew older we stop imagining much any more.

The Lost Thing(2010)

 The Lost Thing 

The thing is a metaphor for people who have difficulty finding the place they think they belong to. In the beginning of the film, nobody about the protagonist seemed to care about the thing , which was feeling lost.  

The climax is the scene where the protagonist said maybe there aren’t many lost things around anymore or many I’ve just stopped noticing too busy doing other stuff I guess.  This scene made me realize that This film is an reflection of our world.

I thought  this film is also about imagination. When we were little, we use to be curious about anything but as we grow , we become less curious and stop enjoying things around us.  At the end of the film, the protagonist seems to have an actual job and wears a suit.  This means He ended up being like other people, no time or energy to care for other things, just living with no purpose. 

The Lost Thing

 Summary: A boy goes to a beach to find bottle tops, but instead, he discovers a bizarre looking creature. The boy, thinking that the creature is lost, tries to find the owner or where it belongs. Though nobody else seem to notice the creature's existence. Then, the boy feels sorry for the creature and looks for its home.

What is the "Lost Thing"?: Similar to Mermaid by Osamu Tezuka, I think this story tells us about the power of imagination and how we lose it as we grow older, and the loneliness of being able to see what nobody else could see.

The Lost Thing

Summary

Story take place in the dystopian society and the protagonist who is a collector is talking about the time when he found a thing he refers as "The Lost Thing". It all began when he went to the beach finding the out-of-place creature at the beach. Intrigued by its presence, protagonist engaged in playful interaction but after realizing it dosent have any owner, protagonist and "The Lost Thing" embarked on the journey to find its owner or the place it belongs. They went through the city eventually finding a sancutuary like place full of the odd and forgotten objects. 

What "The Lost Thing" represents

I think it represents the unique imagination and playfulness adults and young adults often lose in the process of becoming an adult. And it also serves as an reminder that how much curiosity and creativity faded as we each individual adapted to societal norms and expectation. 

The lost thing

Summary 

The lost thing is a story about a boy who finds a creature at the beach. No one seems to notice it and the man decides to take it home. Trying to find out where the strange creature came from, the man and the creature follow the arrows and finally made it to a place where many other strange creatures lived.

 

What is lost? 

In my opinion, the lost thing is the imaginations we used to have as a child. As we grow older, we are busy focusing on work and we do not notice the things around us. We also forget about the imaginations and dreams we had in our childhood.

The lost thing

"The Lost Thing" is a story about a boy who finds a strange creature at the beach. He tries to locate its owner or rightful home, but everyone around him dismisses the creature's presence. Despite the lack of support, the boy feels sorry for the creature and sets out on a journey to find where it truly belongs.

At the end of the video the protagonist said “I see that sort of thing less and less these days though. Maybe there aren’t many lost things around anymore. Or maybe I’ve just stopped noticing them. Too busy doing other stuff, I guess.” and by that line I guessed that the lost thing is a metaphor for youth and dreams. 

By growing over time, as a result I think that all the dreams and expectations we had when we were young gradually fade away. 

The Lost thiNg

 Summary

 In "The Lost Thing," a young man discovers a strange creature that seems to be lost. However, no one else in the world notices it. So, the man decides to help the creature. He goes on a journey to find where the creature truly belongs. Along the way, he faces different obstacles and experiences unusual things in his world. But he doesn't give up, following the mysterious arrows, he continues to help the lost thing. 

The Lost Thing

 Summary:

    The Lost Thing is a story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while collecting bottle-tops at a beach. He tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but is met with indifference by everyone else. Despite his better judgement, the boy feels sorry for the creature and attempts to find out where it belongs.

What is lost? What does it symbolize? :

    In my opinion the thing that is lost in the animation is the imagination and the childlike innocence we had in our childhood. The reason for this is the appearance of the “lost thing”. It was red, huge and looked like a crab. Though, the other “lost things” looked different from the red one. Some flew in the air, one was shaped like an instrument, and one had pencil and was drawing on the ground. Additionally, the main character was saying “ I see that kind of thing less and less these days. Maybe there aren’t many lost things around anymore. Or maybe…maybe I’ve just stop noticing. Too busy doing other stuff, I guess.” These words I think is representing how when people become an adult, we tend to fit in to others and forgets about the dreams and the imaginations we had as a child. 

Shin・The Lost Thing analysis

Summary

    The man found the lost thing on the beach in a summer and they begin to find the home of it. Later the man finds out that there are many lost things out there ins the world. In the end, they found a secret place where the lost thing goes into to stay forever.

What's the lost thing?

     I think the lost thing is our childish vision or the ability to find fun in a seemingly plain world. One reason is that, because the colors of the lost things are very bright, a stark contrast to the other dim colors used in the animation. These beautiful colors are often used in child animation or books. Further more, a tiny detail, only the scene with the lost thing in it has ambient music playing. Another reason is that the lost things are essentially the objects we see everyday. As adults, we don't have the imagination of a child, everything is what it supposed to be. For a young child, the world is so joyful and colorful, anything can be a playmate.

What does it symbolize?

    At the beginning of the video and through out the video, there is no child character exist. Every human character doesn't seem to actually care about the lost things, or anything at all, despite their abnormal looking and behavior. This detail symbolizes the boring vision adults have. Moreover, the scene which has the lost thing in it, there is music playing. This gives out a calming atmosphere making the dusty world looks somewhat better. Therefore, I think the lost things represents the happy little things in a busy adult life that we are not able to see.

    In order to get rid of the lost thing, the man is asked to fill out tons of papers, these papers represent the burden from a job. The more works you do the less able you are to see the lost things (happiness).

    I think the author wants to convey a message that if we slow down and look closely around us, we can find many lost things. Once we find it, the world could be brighter and more hopeful than it looks like.

OKTAPODI

 OKTAPODI  

SETTING:

  Not a specified time, in a seaside in Greece.

CONFLICT: 

Two octopuses against a human.

CLIMAX:

 The climax happens when the female octopus is caught by a human.

SYMBOLS:

 The octopuses= Lovers

 Aquarium= Home

 The man= Obstacles that couples may face in a relationship, because no relationship is perfect.

 The seagull= More obstacles 

IRONY= When they thought that they ran away from obstacle 1, another one was waiting for them and they had to fight again.

Theme= Love is hard.

Oktapodi

setting: somewhere in Greece

conflict: two octopuses running away from a man

climax: when the man saw the octopus got out from the aquarium

symbols: aquarium-home but dangerous

                octopuses-lover

                the man-obstacle 1

                seagull-obstacle 2 

                sea-their new home(goal)

irony: after they succeeded on running away from the man, one of the octopus was captured by a seagull

theme: despair

Oktapodi

 Settings: daytime in Greece.

POV:

Conflict: 2 octopuses against 1 man

Climax: the 2 octopuses was able to escape with the power of friendship and, The man falls into the ocean

Symbolic: Ocean: freedom, release from captivity/death Octopuses: couple

Irony: When they were able to escape from the human and reunite, a seagull appears and divides them apart.

Theme: Love has many obstacles

Oktapodi

Setting:

 No specific time. In a seaside town in Greece. 

Conflict:

2 octopuses against 1 human 

Climax:

 The man falls in the ocean

Symbols: 

Aquarium: home to the octopuses 

Octopuses: A couple

The human: the obstacle 

Seagull: another obstacle

Ocean: freedom, the end goal 

Irony: 

When the octopuses reunite after escaping the human, a seagull appears and divides them

Theme: 

love and its obstacles 

Oktapodi Analysis

Setting: 

A street in Greece during day time

Conflict:

Two octopuses vs the human on the vehicle

Climax:

When the male octopus and the female octopus finally come together and the human falls into the ocean with his vehicle

Symbols:

Ocean = freedom/release from being trapped in the aquarium

Octopus (Especially the orange one) = Braveness, intelligence and dexterity

Irony:

Octopuses are separate again after coming back together because of being caught by a seagull

Theme:

Obstacles never outweigh love 

Oktapodi

oktapodi

Setting

daytime, Greece town

Conflict

octopus vs human 

Climax

orange octopus saved pink octopus from human

Symbol

water tank=prison

pink=feminine, love

sea=freedom, home

Irony

orange octopus finally saved pink octopus, but he was captured by a seagull.

Theme

Not everything go smoothly. 

Oktapodi

 Setting: 
Anytime, in a seaside town in Greece. 

Conflict:
Two octopuses VS one human 
Climax: 
The two octopuses jump off the vehicle 
Symbols: 

- aquarium = “love nest” where the two octopuses feel safe, but not free. 

- octopuses = two lovers 

- the human = the obstacle 

- speed of the vehicle = difficult moments are temporary

- sea = happiness, the goal 

- seagull = another obstacle 

Irony: 

As soon as the octopuses reunite after getting rid of the human, a seagull appears and tears them apart 

Theme: 

love and its obstacles 

Oktapodi(2007)🐙

 Setting       Greek village, daytime 

Conflict      Octopus couple vs The cook

Climax       When the male octopus got the female octopus back

Symbols     Ocean = freedom 

Irony          The male octopus ended up being captured by a seagull 

Theme        Don’t be afraid of helping someone you love 

oktapodi

Setting

・daytime, Greece

Conflict

・human vs octopus

・octopus vs seagull

Climax

・the orange octopus rescues the pink octopus

・the seagull captures the orange octopus

Symbol

・sea = freedom

Irony

・the seagull captures the orange octopus

Theme 

・love is hard

Oktapodi

 Setting: Daytime, near the sea

Conflict: Octopus escapes from human.

Climax: When the orange octopus getys captured by a seagull.

Symbol: Tank-prison

               Car/Truck-death

               Ocean-freedom

Irony: When the seagull captures the orange octopus

Theme: Help one, then they will return the favor

Oktapodi Analysis

Oktapodi Analysis 

Setting: anytime, place near the sea

Conflict: octopuses VS human

Climax: When the seagull captures the orange octopus

              When the octopuses jumped off the vehicle

Symbol: orange : man

              pink : woman

              seagull : enemy

              sea : freedom 

              aquarium : prison

              

Irony: When the seagull captures the orange octopus

Theme: Help others, then others will help you

oktapodi

 setting

daytime, Santorini in Greece

conflict

two octopuses VS a delivery man (+ a seagull)

climax

1, the femal octopus was caught by a delivery man

2, the male octopus took her back from a delivery man

3, a seagull caught him and went away

symbol

a couple of octpuses = love, someone important, relationship

a delivery man and a seagull = something bother us(the octouses)

irony

1, a delivery man tried to catch both of the octpuses, but he lost everything. `二兎追うものは一兎も得ず`

2, a male octopus tried very hard to get back a female octopus. After making so much efforts, he could finally get her back. However, a seagull caught him and they got separated again.

theme

1, love is hard, so many difficulties, never ending crisis

2, you may lost everything by losing temper. you can't even get one if you try to get two or more. 

Oktapodi Analysis

Setting : Daytime, Starts with the octopuses in side the aquarium and then changes to Santorini (Greece)

Conflict : orange octopus and pink octopus vs Human, orange octopus and pink octopus 

vs sea gal 

Climax : where they jump off the car

Symbols : aquarium : future problems

     Orange : passion, positive, energy, happiness

     Pink : love, kindness, femininity 

Irony : The last scene where the orange octopus got grabbed by the sea gal 

Theme : Lovers fighting to get reunited

Oktapodi

 

1. Setting 

Street in Greek Island

2. Conflict

2 Octopus fighting against delivery man for freedom 

3. Climax

2 Octopus gets freed from man`s grasp and the man falls into the sea along with his car soon after that. 

4. Symbol

Orange Octopus represent male

Pink Octopus represents female

Delivery man represents Obstacle

5. Irony

Just as it seemed that danger had been averted with the delivery man falling into the ocean, bringing a happy ending. Suddenly seagull appeared, this time taking away the male octopus.

6. Theme 

Love is hard, there is full of Obstacle. 

Shin・Oktapodi Analysis

Setting

Modern society, a street near the sea in Greece

Conflict

Two octopuses VS Human

Climax

The orange octopus brings the pink octopus back and the man crash his car into the sea.

At the end a seagull emerges

Symbol

The orange octopus represents a brave man.

The aquarium represents.

The pink octopus represents a woman.

The guy represents the obstacle, most likely the woman's father, trying to separate them two in their pursuit of love.

The seagull at the end represents an unexpected enemy, most likely another woman, taking the man from the woman.

Irony

Although successfully taking back the pink octopus thinking they can live happily forever, a seagull comes out of the blue and steals the orange octopus this time from the pink octopus.

Theme 

Love is full of obstacles some may be difficult, some may be unexpected, and some may be the unbeatable force such as long distance.

Mermaid

What’s the main idea?　Short summary

             A boy sat on the beach lonely met a mermaid. He took the mermaid to his house, then he showed it to his parent, but his parents couldn’t see what he wanted to show. The mermaid was his imagination. Imagination is prohibited in his country, so he was brought to the government's experimental facility and tortured not to think about imaginary things. One day, he ran away from the facility and went his home. He couldn't see the mermaid anymore. then he went to the beach where he met the mermaid first. When he released the fish, the mermaid showed up. He was glad to reunite.

 Reaction

              I think Osamu Tezuka expressed the importance of diversity in this animation. He wanted Japanese people to have own strong personality. During the war, there are regulation on speech. People are taught to have same idea to unite strongly. The legacy of war still existed in 1964. He thought this situation was terrible, then he worried about future of Japan and made this animation.

 What happened in the end?

              The boy became normal the government think by being tortured and he couldn’t imagine the mermaid. It was painful for him, but he could imagine it when he released the fish to the sea. Finally, he dived into the sea with mermaid. I think he committed suicide. Osamu Tezuka send a message to us. Don’t mind the differences with others. Develop your personality. Don’t be general. These messages still have strong impact on our society now.

Oktapodi

• Setting: Daytime, Seaside town in Greece
• Conflict: Octopuses against the cook
• Climax: The orange octopus gets caught by a seagull.
• Symbols:
• two octopuses: a couple
• fish tank: home/small community
• town: outside of their comfort zone (because octopuses live in water not on land).
• (cook)/truck/windshield wiper/seagull: obstacles in the real world
• Pools: chance to escape
• sea: freedom
• washing line/wire: a small moment of peace
• Irony: After the orange octopus succeeded in rescuing the pink octopus, he gets caught by a seagull and they get separated again.

• Theme: Love

MERMAID.

 Short summary, 

In this fictional universe, having an imagination is banned by the government and its considered as illegal. However, one day, a boy saves a fish and in his head, he imagines it as a mermaid. This surprises everyone and makes the government angry, even tho he wasn't causing harm to anyone, and was just happy by himself and his own imagination. The government arrests him and tortures him to make him lose his imagination, which is the mermaid. He fights back for a long time but at the end, he can't remember the mermaid anymore. Instead, his mind is filled with the information that he might not even need, which the government forced him to learn.

My thoughts, 

I don't know what everyone else thinks of the story, or what was the true meaning of it but, in my point of view, this is a story of society trying to get rid of creativity. It kind of reminds me of my home country, Iran. 

The main character find joy, music, and is finally happy being himself but the society doesn't like that, no one is used to it, they find it weird and not acceptable, most of them might even think of him as an mentally ill person.

Not even his parents can understand him so they all turn on him.

He is put through therapy, and is forced to learn things that are supposed to help him be accepted by the society. 

And unfortunately, because he doesn't have the support of the others, and people around him might not agree with him because of their own reasons ( could be religious, could be being scared of the government, could be personal reasons ) he loses the fight and gives up at the end, becoming like everyone else and losing his diversity.

Mermaid

 

short summary

The boy was seeing a hallucination. He tried to force them to believe the mermaid, but others doesn't allow him to imagine freely.

my evaluation

This short video is a sarcasm. I thought the boy was either mentally deranged or running away from reality. I've heard that people start to hallucinate when they are strongly preoccupied with something in their minds. Apart from that, I also wondered why other people force him to let him see the reality. What did he do to those people? 

what will happen at the end

After he see the reality, it seemed he had a big shock, and again, he was running away from reality in another way. I hope he doesn't suicide.

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☆Shin・Mermaid・Interpretation☆

  From my perspective, the main idea of this short film is everyone cannot see the boy’s mermaid friend, yet trying to convince the boy that the mermaid does not exist at all. Eventually, the boy escaped from the torture with his mermaid friend. 

I think the author is trying to describe the strict censorship of imaginary arts or fantasies during that period. In the film, the only character who is able to see the imaginary mermaid is the young boy, who is at the age of imagination. The adults torturing the boy with highly inhumane means is a metaphor for the censorship or education at a time when imagination is considered to be useless even harmful. I lived in China for 15 years and I can understand this very much. China has very strict censorship on everything. Anything besides study is seen as a waste of time. At the end of the film, embracing his imagination, the boy escapes from the harsh world for good. This ending is happy and sad since the boy can only keep his imagination alone. 

My interpretation of the ending is the boy committed suicide. After the torture, the boy lost his imagination and life became meaningless. For a young boy, killing his fantasy is like killing his existence. Without his mermaid friend, and being pushed to the edge, both figuratively and literally, the boy lost all his hope and jumped off the brink. In the afterlife, the boy and his imaginary friend live happily after. 

mermaid

The main idea of this video is imagination. A boy saves a fish and imagines that it becomes a mermaid. He then gets arrested because the world he lives in does not allow imagination. During his time in prison, it seemed like the government were torturing him, trying to make him forget about the mermaid. Times passes, and the boy starts to forget what the mermaid looked like. Then, he escapes and goes back to where he found the fish in the first place. At the end, the mermaid shows up again and the boy also goes into the ocean and they both disappear. I think this video is trying to tell us about how society control our thoughts and how education took away children’s individuality.

Mermaid

 - Main Idea

   I think this anime tells us imagination is amazing, and no one should not be bothered to imagine by others.

-  What’s going on

   The main character loves to imagine or maybe it wasn’t imagination but non-fiction though. However, no one believes him and people blamed him for being different from them. They want all the people stay same as others because differences can threat them. 

-  What happened to the end

    He left with Mermaid. This means he went to find somewhere he could be mentally free. He didn’t give up even though people tried to make him. I think this is a message that we should keep dreaming and imagining, and e we should not give up on it.

Mermaid Analysis

The video depicted a boy who daydreamed about a mermaid. The story subtly conveyed a theme of totalitarianism, where imaginative or dissenting thoughts are strictly prohibited. Furthermore, it illustrated how societal norms, expectations, and limitations can erode an individual's sense of self and identity. Although the ending was somewhat ambiguous to me, I interpreted the scene where the boy and the mermaid were in the ocean as a metaphor for the character's expulsion from society.

Mermaid

1. What's the main Idea

There are no boundaries that could limit imagination and free will, and nothing can stop or crush them, regardless of how society or even the authorities may try.

2. What is going on 

So honestly speaking, I am having a hard time trying to understand what is going on in this animation, especially in the last part. However, one thing that is clear to me is that the government or society is trying to forcefully suppress the boy's imagination and impose its beliefs on him. Despite this, the boy is resilient and refuses to give up his imagination. 

3. What happened in the end 

I'm not 100% sure, but it seems like the boy in the animation initially succumbed to the pressure of the authorities. However, he managed to break free from their grasp and defended his imagination ability. As a result, the authorities eventually gave up on trying to suppress his imagination. I think it is trying to show strength and resilience of human spirit and the power of imagination. 

Mermaid review

What happened from my point of view 

 The video is about a boy who saves a fish and imagines that it becomes a mermaid. Little did we know that in the country where the boy lives, imagining is prohibited. As a result, the boy is tortured in an attempt to make him “normal” and prevent him form imagining things that are not real. After a brief period of forgetting what the mermaid looked like, the boy decides to escape and return to the place where he saved the fish. There, he remembers the mermaid’s appearance and decides to drown himself, perhaps because he cannot bear thought of being  unable to imagine or because he is disappointed in himself for forgetting. 

Tezuka Osamu Mermaid review

     Tezuka Osamu created this short film to send a message to society. I believe that message was to show that the evolution of society was headed in the wrong way. On the official website it says “ Around the time of this production, Japan's fiercely competitive examinations were criticized for producing average children with no individuality all over Japan”. This is still the case when it comes to school in Japan. There is not much uniqueness among the children leading them end up having no future goals or dreams. An unfulfilled and regretful life is the worst way to live in my opinion because you always focus on what could be and don’t appreciate what you have.In this fictional country where the short film takes place, it is illegal to have an imagination. This made me realize another message, to be grateful for what we have and what we can do with that freedom.

Kai Mermaid analysis.

 Through this animation I believe Mr. Tezuka showed us that imagination is something that is limitless and that only us humans have access to it. During the animation the boy is locked up for continuing to use his imagination even when told not to. I think Mr. Tezuka was trying to tell us that society was and still is trying to control how we think and is trying to prevent us from thinking outside the box. After going to his official website it said that children all around Japan were being produced with no indivisualism. I think that Mr. Tezuaka hated this and he wanted to show us that we have to keep a strong will to not be regulated by  the goverment. Overall I think he wanted to show us how regulated the society that we live in is.

Mermaid

 1. Main idea of the anime

    I think the main idea of the anime is imagination and fantasy. It’s trying to tell us how wonderful our power of imagination is.

2. What’s going on in the anime?

    It denounces the tragedy how the imagination that is inherent in human nature is stolen from us by management education. We can see this from the anime, where the boy gets arrested and his ability to fantasize is forcibly taken away by the government. Around the time this work was produced, "examination wars" became an issue in Japan. At this time, the education scraped away children's individuality and averaging them out was becoming prevalent.

3. What do you think happened in the end?

    When he finally got released, the boy no longer remembered the mermaid. Grieving, the boy went into the sea. Though, surprisingly, he reunites with the mermaid. In the end, the boy and the mermaid disappear into the sea.

When we grow up, we all forget what happened to us as children and think that it was a dream. But I believe the boy refused to forget his childhood fantasies and disappeared into the horizon where no one could reach him.

Mermaid Reaction

What (I think) is happening in the video

The story begins with a boy sitting at a beach. He sees a fish washed up on the beach, then saves it by dropping it into a sea puddle. Then the fish he saved magically morphs into a mermaid. As a tribute for saving her life, the mermaid gives him an ocean tour. Soon and later, the boy decides to take the mermaid home with him by putting her into a tank filled with water(or sea water). He then goes to show the mermaid to his family. However, she, whom he saw as a mermaid, was just a fish to the others. The place he lived in forbids their people from having imaginative thoughts. So when he called the fish a mermaid, it triggered what seems to be scientists and the policemen to go furious. Resulting in the execution of torture(tickling?) to get rid of his imagination. The torment did not seem to work on him. The boy then manages to escape the facility with a ton of people chasing after him. Eventually, he reaches the beach he was at in the beginning of this story. Nowhere else to run, he decides to dive into the ocean. He then turns into a merman, living happily ever after with the mermaid he saved.

Mermaid (1964)

1. Main idea

    The main idea of this animation is imagination. It contains a message about being unique, and loneliness and hardships that come with it. This short film is a protest against the exam wars and the mass production of "normal" citizens with no indivisualism or uniqueness.

2. My interpretation

    In one scene, the boy shows his parents the mermaid, but they only see a fish. Then they sent him to some sort of facility to get him "fixed". This shows that the boy and his parents might not have had good relationships. It may be the reason why he was looking lonely and depressed at the very beginning of this video. Maybe he wanted someone he could talk to. Loneliness could be the reason why he started to see something in the fish others did not see.

3. About the end

    With his power of imagination fading away, he escapes the facility and rushes to his home to see the mermaid, but he could not see what he was able to see before. He then goes to the beach where they first met to release the fish, though surprisingly, the fish once again turns into a mermaid. Afterwards, he turns into a merman and they swim far away from land, leaving everybody else behind.

    I think this is a metaphor for if you remember the spirit that you started with, even if your imagination or your dreams begin to fade, there could still be a chance. Moreover, it tells us to do whatever makes us happy and to do that with the right person/people.

Yamato's self introduction

 Hi everyone.I'm yamato.

I'm going to write about my background stories and my hobby.

I was born in Fukuoka and I moved to Yokohama when I was 2 years old. My relatives live in Fukuoka. I went to there during summer vacation every year, so I can speak Fukuoka prefecture's dialect. （Kitakyuuben and Hakataben）Do you know the meaning of this famous dialect sentence 「おっとっととっとってっていっとったのになんでとっとってくれんかったとっていっと～と」？

I speak Kitakyuuben when I talk with my family.　I'm a native speaker of Kitakyuben,so I can tell you about it!

Next I will write about my hobby.

I like watching baseball games. My favorite team is Seibu Lions which is based on Saitama. I went watching a game yesterday with my highschool friend. Chihiro Sumida, the starting pitcher of the game got second win in his carrer. The game was very exciting!  

I'm looking for someone go to stadium with me. If you are interested in watching  baseball games, please talk to me!

Hello

Hi I’m Akane:)

 Hi everyone! I’m Akane Taro.

This is my first time posting here, so I’m going to talk about myself.

My hometown is Okayama. Do you know Okayama? There’s nothing interesting, so I assume some of you guys don’t know about Okayama at all haha. Here’s one thing about my hometown. Braille blocks were first placed on the road in Okayama.

This is my second chance to study at university. Actually, I was in a university in Fukuoka last year, but I got really bored there. So I left there and came to AGU. I left my apartment and came back my home in Okayama last summer. After that I started a part-time job at Starbucks and worked for 6-9hours for 3-5days in a week. I had to quit the job as I came to Tokyo, but working experience there really helped me in many ways. If you want to know super tasty drinks, talk to me! I know how to customize a good coffee or tea:)))

I love talking to people, but I’m scared to do it here in our IE class because I’m not confident enough to talk with someone in English and you guys use English super naturally. I want to talk with you badly, maybe I’ll try next time. Or I’m waiting for you talking to me ;)

See you in our class room!

Seiya's background story or something.

I'm not sure if this is where I write the stuff but anyways,

hi, I guess.

I am currently writing this blog at 1 am. How am I awake. Am I an Insomniac. (Maybe I should check out the insomnia quiz.)

My name is Seiya, and I am a mix of Japanese and white. I was born in U.S Oklahoma and stayed there until I was three or four years old. Then I moved to Aomori prefecture in Japan. 

I then stayed there for about three years and then moved to Shibuya. I went to the elementary school right next to our campus (Not the elementary school built in the Aoyama campus). I saw a Dango shop I used to go to as a kid last week, which made me feel nostalgic. Y'all should definitely try the Amazake-Manju they have there, it's really good. The steamed bun has a nice amazake whiff with anko/red bean paste inside that has a nice creamy texture. 👀 It's only 180 yen. (Sorry, I'll stop talking about food now, this blog was supposed to be about myself. Not some Manju.)

Ok, Then I moved to Germany. I stayed there for about three years, I think. I can't speak any word in German since I went to an all-English school on an American Military base. The only word I know is dunkeshiun and I think it means thank you in German. (I don't even know if I spelled it right)

(I'll just skip the next few years because I feel like it's going to be too long and all.)

The reason for why I'm moving a lot is because of my dad's job. He works in the military, in Airforce. he flies a jet called F-16 or something, don't really remember. My mom works at a hospital.

I don't know what else to write about so,

I guess that's all for now. byeee :P

I hope I can survive through this class. Will I even be alive at the end of this semester .😭