After Thoughts About Ayako

                        Ayako is an anime made by Osamu Tezuka. It is about a poor girl been kept and locked up for nearly two dozen years because she is the evidence of her family's terrible incestuous affairs. Her family does not want people to find out that, therefore they decide to do that to her. However, she eventually escapes the basement because of the great political and social changes of Japan. She grows up and seeks for connection of the outside world while terrified by the outside world. That causes the fall and tragedy of the Tenge family. I have a lot of empathy on Ayako, not only she gets locked up in the basement for years but the disconnect from the rest of the world and that's no different than the in prison however she has done nothing wrong. I can not think of how a person can still seek for connecting to the outside world. I feel sad when see Ayako fears the outside world while she still wants to look out. I admire her braveness. And I feel shame on her family, not only the terrible affairs but the way they treat Ayako as just like a thing or a terrible secret.