Da Hai (Da Yu Hai Tang), an animation that can easily impress you with fantastic graphics, yet it's seemingly simple plot can hardly be understood thoroughly without background knowledge of ancient Chinese culture and myth.
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The story outline appears to be a girl (Chun) trying to get back the life of a boy who saved her. However the real No.1 actor, is the boy behind Chun, another one of "the others", Qiu, who has the ability to manipulate water.
Chun has the ability to manipulate the growth of Hai Tang (Begonia in Chinese), which was once named "Beauty of the Nation" in traditional Chinese poetry. However, her fight against the society of "the others" is in no way fragile as the flower. Instead, the power of will is so strong that can overcome obstacle from authority, natural disaster, and familiar bond. Guess that's why she is name after a 16,000 years old tree, Chun.
Qiu was Chun's childhood friend. And he has always loved Chun secretly. The love was so strong that he would give up everything including his freedom of eternity to exchange the happiness of Chun and her beloved one. Started from a young boy who just become an adult last year, Qiu even dare to steal the sacred mask that is used to connect fairy-land and the human world. People always say until death tear us apart as a promise between lovers. But the cruel separation between Qiu and Chun was even beyond the dimension of life and death--Qiu has to observe, manage and maintain the spiritual library(known as Tong Tian Ge, the pavilion to the sky) that over sees the spirits of everyone. That is to say, though deeply in love with Chun, Qiu has to watch her life and death and there is little he can do about it.
The worst thing is not that you don't know if you can get what you want if you try, it is the desperation that you know for sure you can never get what you what, and yet you only can sit and watch the last thing you want to see from happening.
What will Qiu become? Like the sneaky predecessor, the "trader"? or getting "mature" like everyone else in the fairy-land?
That, is the only thing I really really want to know.
--------Here may involve some plot detail, watch out--------
The story outline appears to be a girl (Chun) trying to get back the life of a boy who saved her. However the real No.1 actor, is the boy behind Chun, another one of "the others", Qiu, who has the ability to manipulate water.
Chun has the ability to manipulate the growth of Hai Tang (Begonia in Chinese), which was once named "Beauty of the Nation" in traditional Chinese poetry. However, her fight against the society of "the others" is in no way fragile as the flower. Instead, the power of will is so strong that can overcome obstacle from authority, natural disaster, and familiar bond. Guess that's why she is name after a 16,000 years old tree, Chun.
Qiu was Chun's childhood friend. And he has always loved Chun secretly. The love was so strong that he would give up everything including his freedom of eternity to exchange the happiness of Chun and her beloved one. Started from a young boy who just become an adult last year, Qiu even dare to steal the sacred mask that is used to connect fairy-land and the human world. People always say until death tear us apart as a promise between lovers. But the cruel separation between Qiu and Chun was even beyond the dimension of life and death--Qiu has to observe, manage and maintain the spiritual library(known as Tong Tian Ge, the pavilion to the sky) that over sees the spirits of everyone. That is to say, though deeply in love with Chun, Qiu has to watch her life and death and there is little he can do about it.
The worst thing is not that you don't know if you can get what you want if you try, it is the desperation that you know for sure you can never get what you what, and yet you only can sit and watch the last thing you want to see from happening.
What will Qiu become? Like the sneaky predecessor, the "trader"? or getting "mature" like everyone else in the fairy-land?
That, is the only thing I really really want to know.