Beauty in the Mundane
When you fancy yourself a writer you're always observing what other writers and storytellers are doing, regardless of the medium that writer may be using. Someone loaned me a VCR this week and I got out my VHS of some anime from the late 90's. (I think my age is showing)
Kare Kano which translates as his an her circumstances is an anime about relationships. The main ship in the story is between a 16 year old girl, Yukino Miyazawa and her boyfriend Arima (cannot remember the kid's first name). Nothing particularly dramatic ever happens in this story there is no intense sex, drug abuse or domestic abuse, no poverty and no social justice issues. Just standard healthy couples and the ways that they come together.
At one point in the series they cover the relationship between the main character's father and mother and how they come together. I'll try to keep it short Yukino's parent were highschool sweethearts. They married right after the mother graduated highschool. Yukino's father Hiro Mizayawa was raised by his grandfather, whom he loved dearly and wanted desperately to care of. The grandfather died just as he was graduating highschool and thus he was unable to ever take care of the old man the way he wanted to. This feeling of failure is a strong part of his grief that confesses to his future wife. She comforts him by pointing out that he didn't have to earn his grandfather's love, that the old man loved him just for being born; this is something Hiro later observes at the birth of his own child. As the episode concludes I thought to myself how beautiful this was and was glad that the writers let me observe this for myself rather than tell me that I should find it valuable of beautiful.
Kare Kano which translates as his an her circumstances is an anime about relationships. The main ship in the story is between a 16 year old girl, Yukino Miyazawa and her boyfriend Arima (cannot remember the kid's first name). Nothing particularly dramatic ever happens in this story there is no intense sex, drug abuse or domestic abuse, no poverty and no social justice issues. Just standard healthy couples and the ways that they come together.
At one point in the series they cover the relationship between the main character's father and mother and how they come together. I'll try to keep it short Yukino's parent were highschool sweethearts. They married right after the mother graduated highschool. Yukino's father Hiro Mizayawa was raised by his grandfather, whom he loved dearly and wanted desperately to care of. The grandfather died just as he was graduating highschool and thus he was unable to ever take care of the old man the way he wanted to. This feeling of failure is a strong part of his grief that confesses to his future wife. She comforts him by pointing out that he didn't have to earn his grandfather's love, that the old man loved him just for being born; this is something Hiro later observes at the birth of his own child. As the episode concludes I thought to myself how beautiful this was and was glad that the writers let me observe this for myself rather than tell me that I should find it valuable of beautiful.