People in every country have an era of nostalgia. Those who were in a certain era were naturally a feeling of ignorance, but once they experienced a certain point in time, this emotion would burst out at once. The most interesting or the most recent manifestation of us is that some of the big friends in the 90s felt that the art and film works they watched and the things they played when they were young were excellent and classic, and from time to time they also criticized some of today's "defective products". In fact, this is probably the only way for every generation, and it is also the inevitable existence of the reflection that every era progresses. In fact, from another level, it is precisely because of the changes in the background of the times that everyone's vision and ideas have been created, and the rich display of social features has been promoted. So, in the anime works with the flavor of the times, what kind of extension do you see as you get older?
1. Chaos Samurai (Ryukyu Samurai Chronicles) – Samurai and Ronin
Obviously, the story is depicted in the context of the samurai's Edo period. According to history, the samurai in Japan were a special class in society in the 10th and 19th centuries. Generally refers to the military who is proficient in martial arts and takes combat as a profession, except for a few countries that are influenced by the Chinese language family, the vast majority of languages are in Japanese as "侍" (Romaji: displayed in Samarii, or Bushi). The spirit of the samurai is called "Bushido"). The samurai adhere to the belief of not fearing hardship, being loyal to duty, and being able and courageous. So from a temporal point of view, the samurai class not only existed for a long time, but also until the Meiji Restoration was the dominant force that dominated Japanese society.
This is a specific story described in the anime. At the end of the samurai era, the maid of a small tea house, Wind, came to the tea house because of a group of local bullies, of which the local official's son Ryujiro especially deceived people too much, causing the wind to accidentally offend Ryujiro, in a hurry, a jobless ronin in the tea house "no illusion" came to the rescue of the wind, and the story began. I have to mention the meaning of the word ronin, although it originally meant wandering rogues, but it was actually a group of poor Japanese samurai who had wandered around and had no place to live due to the decline of the Japanese shogunate era. On the other hand in the anime story, the magistrate is bullying the common people, and the wandering samurai "Ren" draws his sword to help, kills the four "master" bodyguards around the magistrate, saves the poor, and thus offends the magistrate. Subsequently, Wu Xian and Ren meet and fight in the teahouse, and suddenly a fire traps them, and the two are arrested. Because his son was killed in the fire, the embarrassed magistrate ordered the two to be beheaded. On the day of the beheading, the two men made a big fuss at the execution ground, and with the help of the wind, escaped from the execution ground. In exchange, the wind asked them to go together to find a samurai with a "sunflower scent" on his body. Since then, the three of them have embarked on a fantastic journey. The role reversal of the samurai and ronin themselves is also one of the reasons for the rise and fall of the times in the social link.
2. "The Tale of Showa" – Nostalgia for the Japanese people of the Showa era
Showa Story tells the story of a family living in the daily life of the Showa period and witnessing the occurrence of major events in Japan at that time, and is also an original animation produced by THINK Co., Ltd. for middle-aged and elderly people over the age of 60, which lasted for four and a half years, and is said to be the world's first middle-aged and elderly animation, and the animation stage is set in Tokyo in the 39th year of Showa (1964). It shows the story of the Yamazaki Family showa Monogatari family living in Kamata, Tokyo's Ota Ward, running a street factory, and the Tokyo Olympics that year. All in all, the scenery of the era of Japan's development era is perfectly reproduced. The fact that it was the first anime for middle-aged and elderly people and the fact that it was set during the Showa period shows that this period was important to the Japanese people. Well, I have to mention the Showa era. Showa was the era name used during the reign of Emperor Hirohito of Japan from December 25, 1926 to January 7, 1989. Showa is the longest used in Japanese era names. In the early Showa period, Japan embarked on the dark path of militarism and successively launched the War of Aggression against China and the Pacific War, which deeply hurt many countries and brought devastating disasters to Japan. During the post-war Showa period, the Japanese economy achieved rapid recovery and astonishingly high growth. On January 7, 1989, Emperor Showa died of illness, and the Showa era ended. On January 8, Japan changed its era name to Heisei.
In Tokyo in 1964, it is not difficult to see that it was during the period of rapid economic growth in Japan and the period of post-war reconstruction. Joining the United Nations in 1956, hosting the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964 and the Osaka World Exposition in 1970 marked the success of its reconstruction. Japan experienced the so-called "economic miracle," with an average growth rate of 10 percent between 1955 and 1960 and even higher in the years that followed. By the 1980s, Japan had become one of the world's largest and most complex economies, with national income surpassing that of the United States. Japanese society became increasingly urbanized, and by the mid-1980s one-tenth of the population lived in Tokyo. The influence of the United States on Japanese popular culture was so strong that young people in Japan imitated their American counterparts as much as possible. The Showa era also saw more people living in a nuclear family rather than generations together, more love marriages than family arrangements, fewer children, and more choices for women.
Therefore, the reason why some Japanese people miss that period is probably because Japan at that time was very vital and gave people a boost of strength. In contrast, Japan is now one of the countries with low desire in the world, and the contrast is naturally very large. Historical times have brought about not only changes but also changes in the economic structure of society. After the collapse of the bubble economy, the Japanese economy no longer prospered as it did in the 70s, but began to decline. The post-80s and post-90s generations caught up with the collapse of the bubble economy before and after they were born, and their growth period experienced "lost decades" and "lost twenty years", and when they went to society, they encountered "difficulties in employment", their income was not high, and they were at a loss for the future. Simply abandon the house, and the idea of basically surviving came into being.
In fact, every era has an era, and the final phenomenon consideration is the beginning of everyone's problem solving. We see joy, ease, dreams and the future from anime. In fact, it also shows everyone's yearning for beautiful things. Struggle is not necessarily only the economic dimension, after the survival problem from scratch is solved, it is how to make society more refined, better and more humane. I think that when a society matures and wealth accumulates to a certain stage, the sense of citizenship of young people is more important than the desire to struggle economically. When they participate in the process of changing society, they feel that their happiness and ability are linked to this country and society. Therefore, whether it is the rise and fall of history or the continuous change of people's thinking, it is the inevitable way of the development of the world, stagnation and change are never terrible, and what is terrible is that it is not realized that this change is actually the force that drives the process of the world.