My daily life with the Shiina sisters

After finishing dinner, Mahiru knocked on his door with some trepidation.

After the call with Eriri, Imagawa Kaede started writing "The Garden of Words" and "The Forest of Fireflies"

The original work of "Firefly Forest" is a comic book, telling a poignant and fleeting love story that takes place in the mountains of a rural village. The protagonists Yin (a monster) and Ying (a human) met in the mountains, but Yin would disappear if touched by a human. As they spent years together, they fell in love. Finally, at the monster's memorial service, Yin disappeared because he touched a human, but the two were finally able to hug each other.

However, Imagawa Kaede has no plans to draw it. Compared to comics, it is obvious that words are more relaxed.

Imagawa Kaede is also planning to make it into an animation or a live-action movie in the later stage. He has even chosen the actors, but as for whether it will be a box office hit.

Imagawa Kaede has no worries. The phenomenal box office of the original work of 311 billion yen is enough to prove its achievements. Moreover, Imagawa Kaede can hire the best production team to carefully craft this work. As for other things like publicity, theaters, distribution, etc., it can only be said that the difficulties encountered in ordinary film production and distribution are not a problem for him at all.

Of course, more importantly, "Firefly Forest" can be said to be a "prequel" to "Natsume's Book of Friends" to some extent. Both are warm stories about monsters and humans. You may not know much about "Firefly Forest", but "Natsume's Book of Friends", well, many people may not have watched this one, but at least they have heard of it, and it is also a relatively popular IP. After all, it takes a warm and healing route.

Another thing is that in his previous life, even a grown man like him cried when watching "The Secret World of Hotaru".

Imagawa Kaede's consideration of "The Garden of Words" is still a little bit. Compared with the compact 46 minutes of the movie, the original novel actually describes more details. The psychology of some minor characters is actually very important, but the production team is still very attentive. Although a lot of it was deleted, it doesn't feel so abrupt.

What Imagawa Kaede is worried about is that this movie seems to be more famous for its pictures, but Imagawa Kaede can also spend a lot of money to produce it and then promote the pictures on a large scale.

Compared to the above parts, what actually worries Imagawa Kaede more is whether the "teacher-student love" will have an impact on the content. Anyway, Imagawa Kaede plans to make the ending more open like the original. As long as it doesn't obviously show what happened between the two, there should be no problem, right?

It should be normal for young students to have some vague feelings for mature and intellectual female teachers, right?

Anyway, I won’t describe it in detail, you can experience it yourself.

But since he chose to do it, then isn't 46 minutes too short? The whole 90+ minutes, if the people next door saw it, they would think...

In my previous life, Imagawa Kaede watched the movie of The Garden of Words, and her first reaction was also about "teacher-student love" and students spreading rumors about teachers. Later, after reading the novel, I felt that the movie deleted too much.

It’s like the female student who spread rumors about her teacher. At the beginning, the girl liked the female teacher very much, but she didn’t get any response.

Later, the girl started dating a senior. At first, the senior was gentle and considerate to her, saying sweet words to her. When the girl became more and more dependent on him, the senior began to deliberately belittle the girl. The girl began to constantly please the senior and change herself to please him (changing her hairstyle, etc.)

However, when the senior student started to take interest in the teacher, the girl gradually became indifferent. After that, the senior student no longer had the patience and interest to play with the girl, which made the girl start to retaliate against the teacher.

Imagawa Kaede also wondered why the girl behaved like that, especially why she wanted to take revenge on the teacher.

Because love and hate are essentially the same emotion. Many times there is no hurt without love. When love is constantly given but not responded to, hatred at this time will become a form of self-protection to stop this meaningless giving.

Thinking about it this way, he is actually in the same situation now. The original owner kept giving to Kaguya Shinomiya without any positive response, and his arrival can be said to have directly transformed this love into hatred. Although it is a bit outrageous, Imagawa Kaede knows in his heart that he actually has some hatred towards Kaguya Shinomiya.

It's just that he is more mature and doesn't take revenge deliberately. In fact, it's not a question of revenge. You like someone, but they don't like you, so you take revenge on them? But Imagawa Kaede knows that the woman is just using him for a purpose.

There are many details like this in the novel, such as the teacher and her ex-boyfriend, and even a... plot. In the novel, the teacher had a good chat with a strange man in the bar, and then she had a brain seizure and went to the hotel. Fortunately, the teacher finally came to her senses and escaped.

Another scene is that the two of them went to the teacher's house after being caught in the rain, and drank coffee together in the kitchen and living room. This scene actually pays tribute to Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood".

Of course, the reason why Imagawa Kaede was so impressed by this work was the Easter egg at the end of the movie.

When the male protagonist opened the letter sent by his teacher, there was actually a line of English on the bottom of the letter.

"When I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, What lies ahead?"

When I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, what will our future be like?

This sentence comes from an English song "Que Sera Sera".

The response to this statement in the song is:

Go with the flow.

Imagawa Kaede had many... conversations about the future with many girls. Putting aside the anticipation and enthusiasm of the first few times, the reality actually made him pretend to be excited when chatting with them later.

Raising dogs, raising cats, interior decoration, taking care of both parents, several children, children's education...

Even he knew at that time that he and she couldn't go that far, but he still looked forward to it.

But the reality is that we just let things take their course.