"Cat's Repayment": I "love" you, love you as you are.

Joanie 2021-12-23 08:01:31

I used to read "Cat's Repayment" and thought it was about love, but now I look at it again. The idea of ​​the work is actually not the case. It is far more profound than the perspective of love. The author's theme in "Cat's Repayment" is to be brave to be true to yourself. , Don’t change yourself because of the outside world. In the film, the heroine Xiaochun also lives like any ordinary girl at the beginning. She has never thought about how to live her life well. She will be late for school, and she will have a crush on boys who are handsome in class but don’t really understand. She is accepting cats. The king’s gift of thanks, even when he was invited to the Cat Kingdom to be a guest, has never had a firm heart, always half-pushing half-heartedly, with the idea of: "If you are in a good situation now, let's do it." This idea will step by step her Placed in a more dangerous situation. From the beginning of the invitation to the king’s servants, he set foot on the cat kingdom, ignored Xiaoxue’s advice, went to the king’s palace alone with the chubby, and then danced with the cat baron, adoring such a beautiful state, and growing a cat. Beards, like you and me who are trapped by temptation in life, always think: "This is also good", "It's also good just like this", "Everyone is like this." At this time, as the character in the film, Baron Cat has shown great personality charm. Perhaps you will meet people very similar to Baron Cat in your life, but the most moving part of this role is that Baron Cat surpasses The wisdom and love of mortals can be understood as: "I love you, love you as you are. I love you, and I don’t want to possess you, change you, or take anything from you. You don’t need to do it for me. And change yourself. Love means love is unconditional and unrestricted. Love is love itself, pure love." The "love" of Baron Cat here is different from the love that people understand in a narrow sense. It can be regarded as a complete pairing. The unconditional support of the other side, it is this unconditional love that gives the baron the brilliance of humanity. The author finally settles here. Unlike the previous comics that focused on the love of the male and female heroes, "Cat's Retribution" is more like a work that emphasizes the cycle of cause and effect and the true self. The core is to be the true self. You must know that everyone is different, and you must walk your own true path. Therefore, at the end of "Cat's Repayment", the relationship between the baron and the heroine also avoids falling into the cliché ending of ordinary love. Because love will eventually disappear, but unconditional "love" will not. Therefore, in the end, the Baron faced Xiaochun's confession, and his heart was very sensible and clear. He knew that Xiaochun was out of admiration for him, so he mistakenly thought it was love. Of course, although his reply was not straightforward, it was implicitly expressed: "I also like Xiaochun's straightforwardness" instead of "I also like you Xiaochun." Such "love"

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Extended Reading
  • Dayton 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    Morita Hiroyuki's work, the sister chapter of "Listen to the Side", the protagonists are the cat baron and the fat white cat who appeared in "Listen to the Side". The plot is relatively commercial and very funny.

  • Lenny 2021-12-23 08:01:31

    I like Hayao Miyazaki. What moved the most was the line. "Xiaochun! Be yourself, don't lose yourself!" At that time, Xiaochun was thinking that being a cat is also good. She began to grow pointed ears, tails and even beards. Don’t we give up ourselves in this way. In many cases, people will be persuaded to do that. This is not bad. Gradually, they will be assimilated and become one of them. It may not be as scary as a cat, but the truth is the same.

The Cat Returns quotes

  • The Baron: If you find yourself troubled by something mysterious or a problem that's hard to solve, there's a place you can go where you always find help. You just need to look for it.

  • Haru: [Haru sits down on a lawn chair in a cafe, and a squishing/meowing noise is heard. She shrieks and jumps up] A cat... a FAT cat!