Early candidate for best series for 2011 and one of the best ever
2011年最佳和史上最佳之一的迅速入围者
By sortoffaerygirl on Jan 19, 2011
来源:http://www.crunchyroll.com/hourou-musuko-wandering-son#s=/hourou-musuko-wandering-son/reviews
When people ask me, a PhD candidate in Literature who has spent a lifetime reading Shakespeare, Melville, Woolf, Wilde, Austen, and many other "great" authors, why I watch anime, a show like Wandering Son is usually the answer. I am not saying that this is some how on par with literary greatness; in order to be that, it takes time and staying power (401 years after his last new play, they are still making movies out of Shakespeare) to be eternally great, but Wandering Son has what so few shows, movies, and media have these days: the guts to go where people don't want you to go because they would prefer to not know.
当人们问我——一个将生命耗费在阅读莎士比亚、梅尔维尔、伍尔芙、王尔德、奥斯汀等“伟大”作家的文学博士生——为什么会看动画？一部像《放浪息子》这样的作品可以算是一个回答。我不是要说这部动画确实在某种程度上能比肩那些文学巨著，要成为不朽的名著需要时间的积淀（虽然距莎士比亚最后的剧作问世已经401年了，但人们依然在根据他的作品制作电影 ）。但是《放浪息子》确实有一些现今的电视剧、电影和其他媒体少有的品质：涉足某些禁区的勇气。这些领域有的人不愿意了解，也不想让其他人接触，
In the last half century, there has been an increasing interest in LGBTQ media. Books, movies, and TV have all been slowly but steadily finding ways to introduce LGBTQ issues into our world. Most of the time, people are fine with it so long as it stays in the realm of adults. The reality is that many LGBTQ people don't suddenly become "queer" when they reach adulthood. Instead, they struggle with it early in life, into adolescence, and often times, well into adulthood. What LGBTQ media often lacks is addressing those early years and the struggle that it is to be different when young, especially in societies that frown upon it. It is a struggle that for some becomes too much and this struggle is why there is why suicide is such a risk for LGBTQ youth. Part of the problem is that there is nothing out there, in almost any media, telling them that there are other people like them, who also struggle, but can still find friends, acceptance, and even happiness. There is nothing out there to give these young people hope.
近半个世纪里，人们对LGBTQ题材的兴趣不断上升。书籍、电影和电视缓慢但稳定地发掘着，将LGBTQ引介给公众的方式。一般来说，只要这个话题局限于成年人的世界，人们觉得还能接受。但事实是，许多LGBTQ人群并不是在成年后突然才成为“酷儿”的。相反，他们在人生的早期就为此饱受折磨，然后步入青春期，这种挣扎持续不断，然后才是成年。媒体上关于LGBTQ的作品所经常缺失的，是描写这些人童年的生活和挣扎——幼年时的困境和成年时的困境是完全不同的，特别是在一个对此并不宽容的社会环境中。对其中一些人来说，这种挣扎太难以承受了，这就是为什么在年轻的LGBTQ群体中，始终存在着自杀的风险。这个问题可以部分归结于，这是一个空白的领域。基本上没有任何媒体告诉这些人，还有一些和他们类似情况的人也在为此饱受折磨，但他们仍然结交到了朋友，获得了接受，甚至幸福。没有人在这个问题上给这些年轻人希望。
Enter Wandering Son, which may be the first thing on television anywhere dealing with pre-adolescent transgender issues as the focus of a television series drama, be it animated or live-action. This is why I watch anime; to see shows that are willing to go places that other mediums are afraid of and to find there stories of heart and courage. The characters you find here will pinch your heart, which is the only way I can describe the feeling I had while watching episode 1. Each of them is real in that they seem not like characters, but actual people, complex and confused. This is the strength of Takako Shimura's writing: she knows that she doesn't have the answers to life and that the struggle to form the question is what most of us deal with. Her characters always seem authentic (see Aoi Hana) because she remains aware of this and her characters demonstrate this awareness. You don't have to be an LGBTQ person to understand these characters or to like the story; you only have to know that you have a heart and that you can feel for people who suffer and hope for the end of their suffering. I bet that there is not a single person reading this review who doesn't know what that is like and how overwhelmed and amazed one feels when great suffering is eased, even if it's just a little bit.
回到《放浪息子》，这可能是世界上第一部，在电视媒体上将青春期早期的跨性别问题当作主题涉及的电视剧——无论动画还是真人剧。这就是为什么我会看动画：涉足那些其他媒体惧于涉足的领域；感受故事中蕴含的感动和勇气。我只能这样描述我在看本片第一话时的感受：剧中的角色在揪紧观众的内心。剧中的每个角色都是如此真实，以至于他们看起来都不像是角色，而是真实的人，复杂并且迷茫。这就是志村贵子剧本的力量：她知道她没有生活的答案，她也知道与某种问题进行抗争，是我们大多数人都在面对的生活。志村贵子笔下的角色总是显得真实可信（比如《青之花》），就是因为她自己一直保持着这种认识，她的角色们也体现出了这种认识。你不一定非要像LGBTQ一样理解这些角色、喜欢这个故事。你只需要知道你也是人，也能感受到那些承受痛苦，并且希望结束自身痛苦的人的感受。我打赌不是所有阅读这篇评论的人都清楚这种感受：当巨大的痛苦得到缓解时那种无与伦比的美好，即使这种缓解只是杯水车薪。
This is a character driven story, so the plot is a standard slice-of-life that will be revealed through the day-to-day lives of the characters in the series. If slice-of-life is not your cup of tea, give this a chance anyway. Wandering Son may be a genre defying show in bringing serious story to slice-of-life in a way that does not become trite or cliche. As opposed to comedy slice-of-life, don't expect this to be light, and expect to cry. The music and art, much like Aoi Hana, sets the mood beautifully and pulls you out of the world you live in and brings you right into the world of the characters. You will lose yourself in the art of this show.
这是一个以角色驱动的故事，所以它的情节是标准的日常生活，通过角色们日复一日的生活展开剧情。如果日常生活剧的风格不合你的口味，无论如何请尝试一下。《放浪息子》可能算是一部颠覆传统类型的作品，它把一个严肃的剧本置于日常生活剧的框架中，没有重复陈腐和烂俗的桥段。不同于轻喜剧风格的日常生活剧，别期待这部片有多么欢乐，更应该期待的是感动。这部动画的音乐和画面风格很像《青之花》，能制造出美妙的氛围，将你抽离出你所生活的世界，带你进入剧中人的世界。你会在这部动画的氛围中迷失自我。
At only 11 episodes, you really don't have an excuse for not watching this show. Wandering Son will restore hope in the heart of the most jaded anime fan and it will leave you wishing there was more of this story, or at least more stories as well done as this. While the subject matter is mostly what I focus on, that aside, Wandering Son is an amazingly beautiful show that demonstrates the power that animation can have. Disney and Pixar should take notes from this series.
考虑到仅有11话，你真的没有理由拒绝试试这部动画。《放浪息子》能恢复许多厌倦腻味的动画爱好者的信心，让你希望能有更多这种作品，或者至少和这部片同样水准的作品。虽然这部动画的主题恰好是我所关注的领域，但就算不考虑这点，《放浪息子》也仍然是一部惊艳的作品。它证明了动画这种艺术形式所能够拥有的力量。迪士尼和皮克斯也应该看看这部动画。
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作为一篇评论，赞美过于空泛，这点并不太好。而且很多观点我并不同意，比如我并不认为《放浪息子》是一部真正处理敏感题材（GLBT）的伦理片，我更倾向于认为这是一部涉及敏感题材，但以青春、生活和成长为主的现实主义群像片。最后提到迪斯尼和皮克斯也略囧，这些商业片大厂基本不会碰这种敏感题材的。《放浪息子》也没有特别值得一提的技法创新。但我对这篇评论感兴趣的东西在于东西方国家对这部作品不同的反映和态度，这篇文章就成为这样一个典型了。日本人基本上除了骂两句变态，很少有从LGBT角度出发的看法，这显得日本整体上对LGBT处于一种完全不接受不了解的状态。而志村贵子从《放浪息子》到《青花》的题材总是围绕LGBT相关的边缘题材（虽然女校里的百合情节在日本算是主流伦理题材之一），而以同性恋问题为主的LGBT问题算是欧美社会、政治和伦理的主要政治敏感点之一，这导致志村贵子显得在欧美语境里更容易获得理解。要知道《放浪息子》在美国甚至被图书馆联盟推荐为青少年最佳图书的候选作品，漫画原著很早就被引入美国（虽然只引进了两册），以至于动画播出时原著党的比例居然惊人的高。考虑到志村贵子后记里编辑说她对欧美艺术和文化相当喜爱和熟悉，这种看起来像是“生活在本国的外国人”的现象在艺术家里并不是不能理解。
2011年最佳和史上最佳之一的迅速入围者
By sortoffaerygirl on Jan 19, 2011
来源:http://www.crunchyroll.com/hourou-musuko-wandering-son#s=/hourou-musuko-wandering-son/reviews
When people ask me, a PhD candidate in Literature who has spent a lifetime reading Shakespeare, Melville, Woolf, Wilde, Austen, and many other "great" authors, why I watch anime, a show like Wandering Son is usually the answer. I am not saying that this is some how on par with literary greatness; in order to be that, it takes time and staying power (401 years after his last new play, they are still making movies out of Shakespeare) to be eternally great, but Wandering Son has what so few shows, movies, and media have these days: the guts to go where people don't want you to go because they would prefer to not know.
当人们问我——一个将生命耗费在阅读莎士比亚、梅尔维尔、伍尔芙、王尔德、奥斯汀等“伟大”作家的文学博士生——为什么会看动画？一部像《放浪息子》这样的作品可以算是一个回答。我不是要说这部动画确实在某种程度上能比肩那些文学巨著，要成为不朽的名著需要时间的积淀（虽然距莎士比亚最后的剧作问世已经401年了，但人们依然在根据他的作品制作电影 ）。但是《放浪息子》确实有一些现今的电视剧、电影和其他媒体少有的品质：涉足某些禁区的勇气。这些领域有的人不愿意了解，也不想让其他人接触，
In the last half century, there has been an increasing interest in LGBTQ media. Books, movies, and TV have all been slowly but steadily finding ways to introduce LGBTQ issues into our world. Most of the time, people are fine with it so long as it stays in the realm of adults. The reality is that many LGBTQ people don't suddenly become "queer" when they reach adulthood. Instead, they struggle with it early in life, into adolescence, and often times, well into adulthood. What LGBTQ media often lacks is addressing those early years and the struggle that it is to be different when young, especially in societies that frown upon it. It is a struggle that for some becomes too much and this struggle is why there is why suicide is such a risk for LGBTQ youth. Part of the problem is that there is nothing out there, in almost any media, telling them that there are other people like them, who also struggle, but can still find friends, acceptance, and even happiness. There is nothing out there to give these young people hope.
近半个世纪里，人们对LGBTQ题材的兴趣不断上升。书籍、电影和电视缓慢但稳定地发掘着，将LGBTQ引介给公众的方式。一般来说，只要这个话题局限于成年人的世界，人们觉得还能接受。但事实是，许多LGBTQ人群并不是在成年后突然才成为“酷儿”的。相反，他们在人生的早期就为此饱受折磨，然后步入青春期，这种挣扎持续不断，然后才是成年。媒体上关于LGBTQ的作品所经常缺失的，是描写这些人童年的生活和挣扎——幼年时的困境和成年时的困境是完全不同的，特别是在一个对此并不宽容的社会环境中。对其中一些人来说，这种挣扎太难以承受了，这就是为什么在年轻的LGBTQ群体中，始终存在着自杀的风险。这个问题可以部分归结于，这是一个空白的领域。基本上没有任何媒体告诉这些人，还有一些和他们类似情况的人也在为此饱受折磨，但他们仍然结交到了朋友，获得了接受，甚至幸福。没有人在这个问题上给这些年轻人希望。
Enter Wandering Son, which may be the first thing on television anywhere dealing with pre-adolescent transgender issues as the focus of a television series drama, be it animated or live-action. This is why I watch anime; to see shows that are willing to go places that other mediums are afraid of and to find there stories of heart and courage. The characters you find here will pinch your heart, which is the only way I can describe the feeling I had while watching episode 1. Each of them is real in that they seem not like characters, but actual people, complex and confused. This is the strength of Takako Shimura's writing: she knows that she doesn't have the answers to life and that the struggle to form the question is what most of us deal with. Her characters always seem authentic (see Aoi Hana) because she remains aware of this and her characters demonstrate this awareness. You don't have to be an LGBTQ person to understand these characters or to like the story; you only have to know that you have a heart and that you can feel for people who suffer and hope for the end of their suffering. I bet that there is not a single person reading this review who doesn't know what that is like and how overwhelmed and amazed one feels when great suffering is eased, even if it's just a little bit.
回到《放浪息子》，这可能是世界上第一部，在电视媒体上将青春期早期的跨性别问题当作主题涉及的电视剧——无论动画还是真人剧。这就是为什么我会看动画：涉足那些其他媒体惧于涉足的领域；感受故事中蕴含的感动和勇气。我只能这样描述我在看本片第一话时的感受：剧中的角色在揪紧观众的内心。剧中的每个角色都是如此真实，以至于他们看起来都不像是角色，而是真实的人，复杂并且迷茫。这就是志村贵子剧本的力量：她知道她没有生活的答案，她也知道与某种问题进行抗争，是我们大多数人都在面对的生活。志村贵子笔下的角色总是显得真实可信（比如《青之花》），就是因为她自己一直保持着这种认识，她的角色们也体现出了这种认识。你不一定非要像LGBTQ一样理解这些角色、喜欢这个故事。你只需要知道你也是人，也能感受到那些承受痛苦，并且希望结束自身痛苦的人的感受。我打赌不是所有阅读这篇评论的人都清楚这种感受：当巨大的痛苦得到缓解时那种无与伦比的美好，即使这种缓解只是杯水车薪。
This is a character driven story, so the plot is a standard slice-of-life that will be revealed through the day-to-day lives of the characters in the series. If slice-of-life is not your cup of tea, give this a chance anyway. Wandering Son may be a genre defying show in bringing serious story to slice-of-life in a way that does not become trite or cliche. As opposed to comedy slice-of-life, don't expect this to be light, and expect to cry. The music and art, much like Aoi Hana, sets the mood beautifully and pulls you out of the world you live in and brings you right into the world of the characters. You will lose yourself in the art of this show.
这是一个以角色驱动的故事，所以它的情节是标准的日常生活，通过角色们日复一日的生活展开剧情。如果日常生活剧的风格不合你的口味，无论如何请尝试一下。《放浪息子》可能算是一部颠覆传统类型的作品，它把一个严肃的剧本置于日常生活剧的框架中，没有重复陈腐和烂俗的桥段。不同于轻喜剧风格的日常生活剧，别期待这部片有多么欢乐，更应该期待的是感动。这部动画的音乐和画面风格很像《青之花》，能制造出美妙的氛围，将你抽离出你所生活的世界，带你进入剧中人的世界。你会在这部动画的氛围中迷失自我。
At only 11 episodes, you really don't have an excuse for not watching this show. Wandering Son will restore hope in the heart of the most jaded anime fan and it will leave you wishing there was more of this story, or at least more stories as well done as this. While the subject matter is mostly what I focus on, that aside, Wandering Son is an amazingly beautiful show that demonstrates the power that animation can have. Disney and Pixar should take notes from this series.
考虑到仅有11话，你真的没有理由拒绝试试这部动画。《放浪息子》能恢复许多厌倦腻味的动画爱好者的信心，让你希望能有更多这种作品，或者至少和这部片同样水准的作品。虽然这部动画的主题恰好是我所关注的领域，但就算不考虑这点，《放浪息子》也仍然是一部惊艳的作品。它证明了动画这种艺术形式所能够拥有的力量。迪士尼和皮克斯也应该看看这部动画。
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作为一篇评论，赞美过于空泛，这点并不太好。而且很多观点我并不同意，比如我并不认为《放浪息子》是一部真正处理敏感题材（GLBT）的伦理片，我更倾向于认为这是一部涉及敏感题材，但以青春、生活和成长为主的现实主义群像片。最后提到迪斯尼和皮克斯也略囧，这些商业片大厂基本不会碰这种敏感题材的。《放浪息子》也没有特别值得一提的技法创新。但我对这篇评论感兴趣的东西在于东西方国家对这部作品不同的反映和态度，这篇文章就成为这样一个典型了。日本人基本上除了骂两句变态，很少有从LGBT角度出发的看法，这显得日本整体上对LGBT处于一种完全不接受不了解的状态。而志村贵子从《放浪息子》到《青花》的题材总是围绕LGBT相关的边缘题材（虽然女校里的百合情节在日本算是主流伦理题材之一），而以同性恋问题为主的LGBT问题算是欧美社会、政治和伦理的主要政治敏感点之一，这导致志村贵子显得在欧美语境里更容易获得理解。要知道《放浪息子》在美国甚至被图书馆联盟推荐为青少年最佳图书的候选作品，漫画原著很早就被引入美国（虽然只引进了两册），以至于动画播出时原著党的比例居然惊人的高。考虑到志村贵子后记里编辑说她对欧美艺术和文化相当喜爱和熟悉，这种看起来像是“生活在本国的外国人”的现象在艺术家里并不是不能理解。
