COSMONAUT

The other day, BUMP OF CHICKEN released a new album, COSMONAUT. In this album, there are a lot of honest feelings of the vocalist, Motoo Fujiwara. He put his love for his precious people, his memory and his message for us into this album. Every songs in this album are made from only his experiences and feelings. But we who listen to this album feel like these songs were written for us. These words fit with our feelings, distress and greatfulness to our precious people. Of course, all of them are different, but these songs fit with our delicate feelings perfectly. That point is one of the reasons why BUMP OF CHICKEN is loved by so many people in the world for a long time.
And when I listen to this album with reading its lyrics sheet, I feel like reading a story. In the lyrics sheet, there is an astronaut. The pictures in this lyrics sheet are sight of an astronaut. And an astronaut finds some things and landscapes, and experiences various things on earth. It makes also us feeling strong affinities with these songs. But these pictures have some misteries, I think. Trying to solve them is one of the enjoyment. I enjoy listening to this album and seeing the lyrics sheet so much! So, already this album became one of my favorite CDs!



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Lilo & Stitch

In space, one form of life was created by a scientist. It was named only 626. It has terrific power. It was made to destroy. But making new form of life is a serious crime. The creator of 626 and experiment 626 were caught. But 626 escaped through its special power. And 626 crashed on earth by chance. But the scientist and a government official arrived on the earth in pursuit of 626.

On the earth, 626 met a girl, Lilo and her sister, Nani. And 626 started to live with them as a pet, a dog. 626 was named Stitch by Lilo. First, Stitch only tried to make good his escape from pursuers and destroy everything he found. But gradually, Stitch started to feel puzzled. There were no objects to destroy. And Stitch found so many things for the first time, for example sensitivity of human beings, sympathizing with others, happiness without destroying and most importantly, a family.

On earth, through the life with Lilo and Nani, Stitch found being with them is much more pleasant than destroying something. And Stitch wants to be part of a family. Since Stitch came to a earth, he learned a lot about his feelings, and he developed very much.

But then, the pursuers caught Lilo by mistake! Stitch tried to help her out of the space ship at the risk of his life!


To watch this movie, I became a fan of Stitch! I really like him! I have a liking for his pureness, heroism and loveableness. I was strongly impressed the way he developed. He doesn't say anything except in the last scene, but I found his puzzlement, lonesomeness and joy. At the last scene, Stitch spoke of his honest feeling for the first time. That scene moved me greatly and made me cry! I really want to watch the sequel of this movie!




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