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Big Fish & Begonia (2016)

★ 7.4 · 482 ratings on TMDB

Two worlds. One destiny.

Big Fish & Begonia poster★ 7.4

Beyond the human realm, there is a magical race of beings who control the tides and the changing of the seasons. One of these beings, a young girl named Chun, seeks something more—she wants to experience the human world! At sixteen, she finally gets her chance and transforms into a dolphin in order to explore the world that has her fascinated. But she soon discovers that it's a dangerous place and nearly gets killed in a vortex. Luckily, her life is spared when a young boy sacrifices himself to save her. Moved by his kindness and courage, she uses magic to bring him back to life only to learn

The emergence reading

In Big Fish & Begonia, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “mystical underworld”. The story fights on E8/E9/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, sacrifice, culture, mortality, otherworld.

↷ another substrateCNidentitysacrificeculturemortalityotherworld
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6soulsouls can be extracted from the human world and traded for lifespan, allowing a human soul to inhabit the magical realm (social · local)