Good works are those that can resonate, and those that can respond to the tastes of the public become popular, while those that only meet the tastes of the niche are so indifferent.

Insect Master, the characters are not exquisite, and there are few emotions in the voice of the seiyuu, too quiet, the whole tone seems to be a black and white movie, plain and straightforward. And the unfinished words behind the story are long and long. Maybe it is only after feeling that I feel that this work is excellent. feel.

Sometimes I can't accept the ending of a story, so I can't help but think, will a different ending make me happy? What is the human understanding of happiness? Just like the one-night bridge built by the false Katsura, he could only move forward but not retreat. The young man still flinched. He couldn't let go of the past, and he could only get the result of dying in it.

And the children born during this time are even more incredible, but the bizarreness of the story is not the point. The point is that the man yearns for the village, but when he returns to the village, he is rejected. The wife and daughter eventually wither and die because there is no white bamboo water, but This is not the ending. The ending is that they were reborn again because of the return of the time. I think this ending is not good enough. If I were the author, I would not arrange the rebirth. The ending of the rebirth is not profound enough. If you can't be satisfied with the happiness in front of you, you will have the idea of throwing away the life in front of you.

The different understanding of happiness is also reflected in the "time of existence" that can devour people, decompose people into an embryonic state, and after a woman eats it, it regenerates. You can think about it later, no matter how many times it is regenerated, it is repeated. A pattern of life? Or will there be a different ending? Is this kind of regeneration a kind of happiness or is it just as boring and repetitive? This is the same as the "worm" that can only survive for one day in the human body. It lives and dies every day. "Sunrise and sunset, Chaoyan flowers only one day, sunset and sunrise, a nearby flower blooms, but it is no longer the flower of yesterday." Boundless time Sometimes it's a terrifying and inescapable situation.

There are many hypotheses of two extremes in the insect masters, which are thought-provoking and have to follow the author's footsteps to find out.

Therefore, the goodness of insect masters is not only in the straightforward story, but also in thinking!

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Mortimer 2022-04-20 09:02:51

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Laverna 2022-03-30 09:01:11

There is no doubt that the animation is better than the manga. No matter how many times I watch it, I think it's an excellent work. Perhaps the first brush was initially attracted by the setting and the story, the second brush was the soundtrack and painting, the third brush slowly began to understand this grand worldview full of primitive natural beliefs, the fourth brush and the fifth brush were drawn by some of them by folklore. Attracted by things and subtle plots... I really can't get tired of watching it. I often watch it often, it is a great work beyond the general animation sense. Everything it makes is too quiet, as if it were nature itself—merciful, violent, cruel, gentle, ruthless, yet emotionally charged, evoking awe and intimacy. But because it has been purified too thoroughly, it is impossible to sum up its goodness and beauty in one word.
Charley 2022-03-24 09:03:53

Light and quiet, brief and profound. What has been done will be done again; what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun. There is not one thing people can point to and say, this is new. However, in our previous era, it already existed. The past generations will not be remembered; the future generations will not be remembered by those who come after.