Healing is a style, not a rigid type.

For example, "Mushishi" is famous for its artistic beauty, while "Bamboo Sword" focuses on inspiration and passion. However, these two completely different types of cartoons are both recognized as healing.

In a narrow sense, the healing genre refers to a genre that can warm people's hearts, or be relaxed and happy, without too much bad taste, eroticism, violence, gore, horror, and other intense plots. There are often a lot of them in the works. Full of warm, light music, such as "Mercury Pilot" is a typical example.

Broadly speaking, no matter what type of theme it is, even if it is a very heavy, dark, tear-jerking work, as long as the theme of the work is positive, it will be healing.

So I personally do not agree with the forced classification of healing systems on the Internet.

Furthermore, sometimes it is difficult to classify a healing work into a single category. The reason why "Mercury Navigator" is considered a model work of healing is because this animation has Aesthetics, literature, warmth, comedy, inspiration and other common characteristics of the healing system.

For the generalized healing system, there are several types of works that are often regarded as having nothing to do with the healing system, but in fact this may not be entirely the case.

The first is works with bad taste, service-oriented, and corruption. This has been very popular in the animation industry in recent years. I won’t go into details. In the healing series, there are also "Kana Diary" and "Whispers" that fall into this category.

The second is the gray series (also called the dark series). The theme is very heavy, gloomy, and negative. This genre has become popular since "EVA". However, instead of resisting this genre, The Healing Series has formed a very special work called "Grey Healing Series". This kind of story Although full of tragedy, the theme is very positive, with the intention of finding bright spots in the darkness. For example, "Journey of Kino", "Afterlife" and "Cocoon of Blue" fall into this category.

The third is the hot-blooded system. The reason why hot-blooded dramas are often not equated with the healing system is because such works often involve the taboos of the healing system, that is, they cannot have overly intense plots with ups and downs. However, in fact, some works can also blend blood and warmth. Together, such as "The Bamboo Sword Girl" and "The Legend of the Demon Hero".

The fourth is the tear-jerking system. The biggest characteristic of the healing genre is that it can warm people's hearts, or make people feel relaxed and happy, so it often cannot have overly tragic content, but this is not absolute, such as the 1997 animated film "The Dragon and the Loyal Dog" , is recognized as a masterpiece of healing, and has been repeatedly mentioned and even parodied in the Japanese animation industry ("Pokemon" once parodied this work). And "air" also belongs to the healing genre with a tragic color.

The fifth is a suspenseful work. Maybe it’s because recently many healing series pursue independent chapters without a specific main line (such as "The Bug Master"), so the healing series often misses suspense-type films. In fact, there are exceptions, such as "The Cure", which is adapted from a world famous book. "Secret Garden" is full of warmth, but also suspenseful and fascinating.

So there is no iron-clad formula for the relationship between healing and animation types.

It is generally believed that healing animation is a new type and a partial animation. Individuals have different opinions on this.

Although the concept of healing has only been formed in recent years, many of the animation works we watched when we were children are actually healing.

The most typical ones are Hayao Miyazaki's animated films and the "World Masterpiece Theater" series.

For example, Hayao Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro" is an early work, but no matter from which angle you look at it, there is no reason to exclude it from the threshold of the healing series.

Not to mention the masterpiece series. In this series, it is even more difficult to find works that have no healing characteristics at all.

There are also many childhood classics of the post-80s generation such as "Chibi Maruko-chan" and "Entertainment Goldfish Eyes", which obviously belong to the category of healing. Compared with other hot-blooded dramas of the same era, "The Legend of the Demon God" highlights the warmth and joy, and many plots have made people laugh and cry.

So I think that the healing system is not just a side trend that has emerged in recent years. On the contrary, in the early days (especially in the 1980s), the healing system has always been the mainstream in the animation industry, and was even once the mainstream. Popular, but in recent years, Japanese animation has begun to follow the KUSO, cute, rotten, service-oriented and other routes, which has caused the healing genre to withdraw from the mainstream stage and gradually become a sideline.

There are many people on Douban who started to pay attention to the healing system after coming into contact with Gingerbread Douban. I am one of them. Although I have seen many healing works before, if I have not encountered it, If I go to Gingerbread, I will miss many healing masterpieces.

I remember that at first, Gingerbread’s collection of works was less than 100, and the number of recommendations was only over 20 times, but later it began to increase to more than 150 works, and the number of recommendations reached hundreds of times. .

In the process of organizing, I also "contributed" some works. Once I recommended the super tear-jerker "Dragon and the Loyal Dog (Theatrical Version)" in the 1990s. After watching it, Gingerbread put the film At the front of the bean queue, and then the inner cow complained about me in the comments...

I can't imagine how I would choose the direction of the film now if I didn't encounter gingerbread. , maybe I will like some other masterpieces and find them interesting. Despite this, I am still very glad that Gingerbread has brought me to the threshold of the healing system. I like many works in the no longer existing series, especially "Sketch Book" and "Light Music Girl", which I have watched almost ten times. All over.

By the time Gingerbread logged out his ID, I had probably read through most of the works in that bean column, plus the dozens of animations I had watched later, and now I can no longer watch them. Two hundred films. However, I still think that I am very superficial in this field, and the content of this article is only my personal opinion.

Attachment: Recommendations for healing animations

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(This is a private list. I have watched all the works in it, half of them Passed it more than twice, currently updating from time to time...)