Sad, Apparently Ano Hannah Taken from the Real Story of the Story Maker

anime-addict (64)in #anime • 7 years ago

If you hear the anime Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai or often abbreviated Ano Hana you will surely imagine how sad life of Jintan who is a hikkikomori or a person who never go out and have no social life. The psychic and mental effects after Menma and his mother died made Jintan a shy figure and did not want to see anyone anymore.

Apparently the story of Jintan is similar to the story of the maker of Ano Hana named Mari Okada. For those who do not know who Mari Okada is, he is a story writer who has made many stories for popular anime such as Ano Hana, Nagi no Asukara, Hanasaku Iroha, Kiznaiver, Anthem of the Heart and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Mari Okada's name is famous among the anime lovers because the story he created can always make the audience sad with various dramas that are close to everyday life.

In April 2017, the woman born in Chichibu in 1976 issued her own biography with a controversial title of How I Do not Go to School to Write Anohana and The Anthem of The Heart. The book tells Okada's story as a teenager.

In his book we can see that the drama of life he always shows in each story is a reflection of his childhood and adolescence. Okada experienced a social anxiety or social phobia that made him reluctant to socialize.

The great Okada in Chichibu which is the setting of Anohana and The Anthem of the Heart refuses to get out of the house and can not stand the pressure from the outside environment. Just like the Naruse characters in The Anthem of the Heart Okada big with parents single parent with his mother, his father cheating with another woman and run away with him. Okada who always refuses to go to school makes her mother embarrassed incredible.

Once Okada's mother brought a kitchen knife and said to her, "I can not stand a child like you, I'll kill you." He himself managed to fight his mother's attacks and for the first time he saw his mother cry so great. Such feelings make Okada think that he is the source of trouble that makes her mother behave like this.

At elementary school, Okada is always bullied by his friends and continues through junior high school. During junior high school he tries to be someone else until his friend says "Stop bothering to be someone you do not want". The words shook his feelings and he stopped coming back to school.

Okada becomes a hikkikomori and continues to live in his room while playing video games and reading books. When high school he again failed against his social phobia and decided to move to Tokyo after graduating high school. He was finally accepted into Amusement Media School and majored in storywriting.

Okada's fate changed when he began applying to various places and was accepted to move the interview into writing in a magazine. After feeling enough he returned applying for the anime studio and he got his first anime project DT Eightron, he was finally given the opportunity to write five episodes of the script.

With a variety of recommendations from people in the anime industry Okada managed to become one of the best and leading story writers in the anime. Okada's past filled with gloom made him able to write drama stories full of emotion and make his audience cry. He can turn bitterness in his past into a force that brings him popular now.

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