The director of "The Journey of Bell Buds" Makoto Shinkai joined Douban and posted a long article explaining the setting of the movie

Makoto Shinkai, the director of "Your Name", "Weathering with You" and "The Journey of Bell and Bud", officially joined the Douban platform today and published a long article explaining the various settings in the movies and his feelings about traveling around the world with a straw chair.

Makoto Shinkai said in the article that when he was a child, his father had made a chair with his name engraved on it, which made him very happy. The Souta chair in the movie "The Journey of Suzuya" was created based on this. As for why the small chair has three legs, Makoto Shinkai said that when Suzuya was a child, there was a tsunami, and the whole family was washed away, and this small chair was also washed away, so one leg was washed away. He also wants to tell everyone that even if we may have flaws and imperfections, we can still live well and face our lives bravely, just like Souta, who stood up on three legs and ran forward freely and bravely.