I LOVED that anime for that aspect alone (the wonderful music, beautiful art and ballet sequences, and amazing character development were only frosting on the proverbial cake)īy the way, if you haven’t seen this anime, YOU NEED TO SEE THIS ANIME.
I figured maybe we’d be forced to think about “who’s really telling this story–Nao, Ruth Ozeki, or the Ruth of the story?” Think along the lines of the anime Princess Tutu: we’re at first led to believe it’s a typical ballet anime, but then we find out that the town is a story within a story, and we have to question who’s really in charge of the story. The fact that Ruth is also the name of the author and the character Ruth is also a novelist of Japanese descent only made that more interesting. A dual-perspective story, one in the past (Nao) and one in present-day (Ruth). The mention of the possibility of the diary being flotsam from the Great East Japan Earthquake only fueled my interest.Ģ.
It’s a story set in Japan and I am trash for Japanese stories. Thinking back on when I started this book, I was super-excited about it because:ġ.
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