This ending is a bit dumb

Ken 2022-04-22 07:01:46

At first I only started watching because the tanuki is cute. The civet cats are so cute when they learn transformation, especially those who can't learn it!
It wasn't until they started to use the transformation technique to defend their living space through all kinds of failures that I realized that this is an animation with a very serious proposition. Even though their methods have failed, I still appreciate the illusion created for play, and like the sentence: "If you lose your childlike innocence, you won't be a civet cat anymore." Seeing the civet cats who have learned to transform into human society and talk about the stress and fatigue of human life, I feel like a civet cat too.

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  • Bonnie 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    (8/10) "Various Tanuki" and "Attack on Giant" essentially tell the same story, but under the appearance of the children's style of "Various Tanuki", it is far more realistic and cruel than "Giant". More cold and deeper, the "earth sounds" launched by the protagonists are actually just "the Lord doesn't care" in the eyes of the enemy (human beings). Living space, in the end, can only survive in the cracks, thinking of the beautiful green mountains and green waters in a phantom of memories created by myself. In contrast, "Giant" is actually full of secondary school, and throws a good topic, but it also describes "eliminating all mankind" too trivially, falling into the cliché that the protagonist has the "secret secret weapon of ancestors". , You must know that Hitler was organized, disciplined, using modern technology, and with the strong assistance of many countries (including France and the Soviet Union), did not exterminate the Jews, but in the anime Ailian threw a few ancestral giants, Norman A few drops of potion in a rural laboratory can destroy the entire civilization with the highest technology at the time. It's not so easy to "destroy the world".

  • Athena 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    The reason for the 4 stars is because in the end, I thought of a dog-blood ending. The civet cat that became a human is incompatible with human society, and it is not accepted by the primitive civet cat group. . .

Pom Poko quotes

  • Oroku: Lesser forms of transformation, such as changing color, can be achieved by chameleons, for example. But the true art of transforming can only be practiced by foxes, raccoons and a few cats.

    [the lesson is interrupted by the loud snoring of Gonta, who is sitting in the front row]

    Oroku: Gonta!

    [Gonta wakes with a start and sits upright, assuming the clothes of a police officer]

    Oroku: The fact that you were able to change your appearance like that means you've already mastered the rudimentary techniques of transformation.

  • Koharu: Tamasaburou, I beg you, don't go back to Tama Hills with the transformation masters. The thought of you being so far away from me and the children... I can't stand it! It breaks my heart!

    [Crying, she changes into her anthropomorphic tanuki form and embraces her children]

    Tamasaburô: My darling, I wish that we too could stay together forever. But you must understand.

    Koharu: No, I don't understand. Why can't you stay here with me? The masters can make it to Tama without you. I'll talk to Father and the elders. Why don't you stay behind and be Father's successor?

    [Tamasaburou looks off to the side]