I'm Ebata, a fundamentalist of the novel "Japan sinks" and the movie (the 1st) "Japan sinks"

I have always said, "Don't be stingy with other people's creations. Be silence as my criticism". Hence, I would like to refrain from giving my thoughts on TV dramas in 2021.

I just tell you that I agree with the criticisms listed on the Internet.

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I like the fact that in the novel "Japan sinks" and the movie (the 1st) "Japan sinks", there is not a single bad guy.

I think the theme of "Japan sinks" is a fierce exodus in which everyone, from ordinary people to scientists, the Self-Defense Forces, and politicians, all work together desperately, risking their lives.

"In the face of a catastrophe of unprecedented scale that could sink Japan, who would be so carefree as to engage in "political affairs"?"

I come to think so.

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As for the mechanism of the sinking of Japan, The novel "Japan sinks" devotes an enormous number of pages to a thorough explanation.

I was so worried that the readers would lose motivation if the explain is so technical at such length.

In the movie "Japan sinks", they had a real seismologist explain about the mantle convection (He was a professor of Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo).

The realism of it scared me.

I also heard that the number of students majoring in seismology had increased since then.

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What the great about Sakyo Komatsu's "Japan sinks" is

"In what areas is the behavior of fluid mass of different temperatures on Earth most clearly understood?"

As represented by this line, the paradigm of meteorological models has been brought into tectonic models.

Of course, this model may be unreasonable, but science fiction is science fiction.

And then, that is it.

"In the worst case scenario... . ..this is regardless of the size of the earthquake. ...In the worst case -- most of the Japanese archipelago will sink below the surface..."

No matter how many times I reread the phrase, it still sends shivers down my spine.

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In the novel "Sinking of Japan," the compound word "Japan sinks" appears in only seven places (I checked on my Kindle).

I don't think this word was used much in the movie.

I think it is very important to make the reader understand the theme of creation without using power words.