[Just like that, it changes over into a subsection of strings rising in a campy melody, veering in contrast stark from any of the songs played before it. Ryuji tries to keep his face straight throughout it as it starts to chug along, a young girl's voice singing absurdly about a fish child with a big, round belly. Admittedly, he loved this movie, but he couldn't really understand why. Mostly, it was just cute. He was only 9 or 10 when it came out, and there's a story attached to it that's equally reminiscent of a childhood that's also pretty... tonally shifted from the person he was today.
He'll sing along, though. His voice isn't horrible, but it definitely isn't great either. And about half a verse in, he can't do this anymore, and he gives up, laughing at himself and how horrible it is.]
I saw this movie when I was a kid. It's about a magic fish who meets a boy and decides to become human, but all this shit goes down and makes it really hard. [He's practically talking over the song now, but it's a good story, and maybe Dave wouldn't mind hearing it?] Her dad doesn't want her to, though, and enlists her mom in helping keep her in fish form. So he gives the boy a test, that if he can pass, the fish girl can become a human. But she'll lose all her magic. And her mom asks the boy if he can love Ponyo whether she's a fish or not and he tells her that he does.
[The explanation outlives the song, and it goes quiet for a second as Ryuji finishes the story.]
And he kisses her and she turns into a human. Anyway, I dunno if it's still like... a good movie, or I just really enjoyed going to the theater with my mom and getting so sick from eating an entire tub of popcorn. Either way, it was pretty rad.
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He'll sing along, though. His voice isn't horrible, but it definitely isn't great either. And about half a verse in, he can't do this anymore, and he gives up, laughing at himself and how horrible it is.]
I saw this movie when I was a kid. It's about a magic fish who meets a boy and decides to become human, but all this shit goes down and makes it really hard. [He's practically talking over the song now, but it's a good story, and maybe Dave wouldn't mind hearing it?] Her dad doesn't want her to, though, and enlists her mom in helping keep her in fish form. So he gives the boy a test, that if he can pass, the fish girl can become a human. But she'll lose all her magic. And her mom asks the boy if he can love Ponyo whether she's a fish or not and he tells her that he does.
[The explanation outlives the song, and it goes quiet for a second as Ryuji finishes the story.]
And he kisses her and she turns into a human. Anyway, I dunno if it's still like... a good movie, or I just really enjoyed going to the theater with my mom and getting so sick from eating an entire tub of popcorn. Either way, it was pretty rad.