Somali and the Forest Spirit is a cute and heartwarming anime series that follows the story about an adorable little girl and a forest spirit who is her guardian and a father figure to her. Together they embark on a journey in a beautiful and colorful world in search of her the girl’s real parents. But in this world humans are the rare species and could not be found easily. This series is all about exploring the real meaning of the family as it does not only imply to the blood relations but to those who love and care you with all their heart and will never leave your side no matter what. This article is all about how this series depicts this beautiful concept.
Somali and Golem meet new people and get closer to them while they travel in this beautiful world. All these characters are as fascinating as the world itself. Most have them have families like humans. There is energetic oni doctor, named Shizuno and his dedicated assistant or house husband named, Yabashira, then there is a little rabbit named Kikila who lives with his parents. There is bird like creature named harpy Uzoi and a strange looking guardian with her named, Haitora. There is also a place of witches with witch librarians and their head. One thing that we all see similar in all these characters is that they leave the side of their loved ones and keep loving them. Even if they look different by their appearances and nature, this loving nature is common among them all.
The father of little rabbit stated the wisest words to Golem when he felt bad for being responsible for making Somali exhausted to the extent that she felt sick. Kikila’s father said that none of them can be the ideal father but the most important thing is to never hesitate in making their children feel their father love them. Golem looked for medicines in the middle of the night and spent all his money to buy medicines for Somali and he never felt bad about spending all his money as Somali’s health is the most important thing.
Sadly, Golem will not be able to stay by Somali’s side for longer as he doesn’t have much time left in his life span of 1000 years. So he will have to break his promise for staying with her forever as his body is getting week day by day and he might die within few months. The thing that worries him the most is that he need to find Somali’s parents before he dies so that she will be unharmed in this world who hates human. He hasn’t let Somali know the truth but he can’t keep this a secret for longer and one day he will have to tell her. But that is not the only problem, in a word where humans have are been brutally killed, fed and enslaved by the monsters, her parents are most likely dead and if that is the case what will Golem do?
In one of the episode, the head of the witches dies and turns into several butterflies of blue color ascend over the witches who cries on her death. In opening theme we see the same butterflies flying from Golem to Somali which shows that the people keep living in the hearts of their loved ones after their death. We really want Shizuno or any other character to make any medicine or something that can make live longer but if that can’t happen then Golem will keep living as spirit near Somali even after he dies. He even mentioned that after being found by Somali, he was not a forest guardian but an actual person who could give his love and to Somali and protect her like a father.
Somali and the Forest Spirit gives a beautiful message about what a family really mean. It is not something restricted to blood relations but a bond that only get strong with love among the people. The emotion of love is what truly connects people and make them a family and this bond is so strong that it can’t be broken with anything, not even death. Even if we get to see a sad ending, we know in our hearts that Golem will never break his promise and will stay with her forever as a father.
