The Lessons I Learned Re-Watching the Anime Movie: A Whisker Away

I re-watched again one of the 2020 Anime Movies that was released, last yr of course and its the “A Whisker Away”. There are few things that this Movie’s Lesson to us have taught me. But first I wanna give the Summary of this Ani-Movie, Middle School Students’ Miyo Sasaki (Muge) & Kento Hinode are both Classmates, similar hatred to the world they living in, just want to be isolated to their comfort zones. They first met during the last year’s Summer Festival, when Muge bought a Cat Transformation Mask to a Fat & Mysterious Cat Mask Seller, then afterwards she was coincidentally founded by Hinode and both of them started to comfort & console one another because of the problems that they’ve been facing. Ever since their first meet-up at the Summer Festival, Muge of course had fallen in love to Hinode and trying her best to gets his attention when their in School, at first he was really annoyed then ignored her. After the major incident, that occurred when one of their Classmate, took her Love Poem Letter and read out loud what Miyo written and Hinode took the Letter, started to be angry and shouts at her, that meant it was the last straw of Muge’s annoyances to him and declared that he “really hated you (her)”.

She was heartbroken and started to cry and run away from their Classroom, then afterwards she returned back to her home and lashing out to both Kaoru her Step-Mother and her Dad Youji, and the reason she finally burst out of anger is because of her Parents’ decision on splitting up because of their Marriage not working out. That’s why Youji had hooked up with Kaoru without both of them and Miyo’s Mother NEVER REALLY realized that their decision have impacted Miyo in a BIG WAY, especially since she was just in Elementary when her Parents’ decided that they want to be divorced, and that’re the problems that Miyo was facing back then.

While here’s Hinode’s Problems, he doesn’t want to go to Cram School and he doesn’t want to continue his Academic Studies, because he just wants to be a Pottery Maker like his Grandfather and of course her Mom didn’t took kindly for that and really forcing him to not go down to that path, because of that he became annoyed, edgy, pissed, and rebellious. Especially when he’s having a talk with her Mother about how he needs to support his Family, financially and because he & his Sister’s Father have died early, their Grandfather’s eyes are starting to see less and that the Pottery Studio needs to be sold and his Grandpa’s Assistant has to quit.

And after Hinode’s rejection of Muge’s Love Confession, that became the final nail in the coffin. She decided ultimately *temporarily* that she doesn’t want to be a Human anymore, and the Mask Cat Seller heard her then took her Human Mask and give it to Kinako, and of course that’s what she said to the Original Muge that she replaced temporarily. They both made and settled in on a deal that they’ll get to share Muge’s Human Lifespan, then Muge decided accordingly that she’ll go to the Cat Island so se can find her Human Mask. While the other Muge, Kinako had a talk with her owner Kaoru, telling her how much Kinako (she) really loves her back. And she regretted what she had done to Muge, and also knows that Muge regretted on saying that she doesn’t want to be a Human anymore. That’s why she embarked on a mission to find Hinode first, and she did find his house then they have a talk about the original (Muge). But first, Hinode was shocked to find out the transformation of “Muge” into Kinako (Cat), and he just now realized at that moment he told her “I (he) loves you (her)” when she was a Cat. And he was conflicted at first on what he really feels for her, saying before to her Bestfriend that he don’t really hate Muge and more like was just really annoyed, since he pointed out that Muge didn’t considered how he felt after that embarrassing incident. But after what Kinako said about Muge going to the Island for Cats just to retrieve her Human Mask, and realizing that she was trying her best and hardest to cheer him up back then, he decided to return the favor by saving her (with the encouragement of Kinako at the same time) from turning into a full time Cat.

With that, Kinako accompanied Hinode to the Island, and they start trying to find Muge. While Muge was in a Cat Bar where she met up with the other Cats (who’re formerly Humans). And told their stories to her, then pointing out at the same time, that she needs to live her life into the fullest as a Human while she did recognized it and even wants to really convey her feelings to Hinode. Then the Mask Seller suddenly appeared out of nowhere and tried to take Muge with him, the other Human-turned-Cats buy time for Muge and the other Cat (former Mother) accompanied her on finding Hinode. While on Hinode’s situation, in order for him to move freely from the Island, he needs to wear a Cat Mask but after he done that, the only part of him that is Cat are his arms & hands but nonetheless he started to try finding Muge as well. After few minutes of finding one another they got to be reunited to the Mask Sellers HQ, tried their best to fight him while retrieving Muge’s Human Mask and Crystal Ball shaped Life Span. And then Hinode realizing that he was starting to reciprocate the Unrequited Love that Muge was giving to him this entire time, after that, their new formed allies/friends came to their in need of help and fought the Mask Seller, thus making their mission successful on retrieving her Human Mask & Life Span, then Hinode, Kinako, & Muge started to leave the Island, bid farewell to their New Friends and returned to Japan. Then both Hinode & Muge had their Human Masks back and got rid of the Cat Masks, the next thing happened is that they both reaffirmed and reassured to one another about their love for each other and hold hands tightly, thus declaring the ending of the Movie.

Here are the things that I learned to the Movie, but I doubt I really can apply it to the real life.

First is that, when we started liking a person, can we just say to ourselves immediately, that its our “First Love”? A lot of people might say yes and I did too in the past. But now I’m going to say that no, since falling in love hard and genuinely can both be the same & different at the same time, since when a person said to the other after their first encounter “I fall in love to you”, will make someone looks like desperate and a “simp”, the person that you confessed your early love might/will probably reject you on the spot. But when you build up a deep bond of Friendship & Trust and at the same time your genuinely romantical feelings for that person, then he/she can or probably reciprocate the same mutual feelings as well.

The second is, we really should don’t hold barred, and explain to other people especially towards to our Parents. And if they will ask us bout what’s wrong then we should be honest to them on what we feel to anything, or any situation that or will give discomfort for us. And in return they should just listen and shut their yaps for now, like what we do when we’re being lectured by them. A simple give and take on talking and listening to each other about both sides concerns, and through that there will be less verbal-turned-physical fights between the Parent(s) & their Child(ren) then less tensions at the same time. If we still have trouble expressing what we truly feel and at the same time, starts having fake, forced, & pretentious smiles and responses of “oh I’m fine” of course its not gonna benefit us and will make us more edgy towards the people we hate & don’t hate, so its important for us still to be angry from time to time to them especially if we didn’t like what they either did or said.

Lastly is that, we all have our own, escapism and the reason I’m saying this, is because its important to say it. And having our own escapism to our problems and in the real word, is necessary especially when we’re getting stress out. But we shouldn’t rely much to our escape comfort zone all the time, since those usual relaxation route to our daily lives will still bore us eventually. We definitely should try to do more things that we think we can do individually or just go outside of our houses sometimes and walk or bike around, especially when we’re bored inside of our homes and getting less satisfaction or enjoyment for ourselves.

That’s the 3 things that I learned from this Movie and it gives me both benefits & non-benefits since I don’t really do much other things as of now. IK that its gonna bore me eventually but there’s nothing I really can do much these days but to stick to my usual routines both inside & outside of my home. That is all for now.