Characters:
-The boy
-The mermaid/fish
Message of the animation:
How the government silences opinions and voices they deem to be "unrealistic" or something they don't want the citizen to believe in. The oppression that people who chose to speak freely face.
What happened at the end of the video:
After years of the government and those who have power tried to brainwash the boy into thinking that the mermaid didn't exist and that what it really was was a fish, he was released from the prison. He then went into the ocean, turning into a merman himself. I believe this was Osamu Tezuka's way of expressing that the boy was finally able to gain free speech and to live with his fantasies.
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