App Summary
Kirari and Zanbu - Part 2
Kirari and Zanbu is an electronic picture book app produced in Japan that’s based on an original fantasy story from Canada. It combines dynamic high-quality artwork, multiple languages, music, and special effects to teach and cultivate humanity and sensibilities in children. It also helps develop language learning skills and an appreciation for the natural environment.
Your child will naturally understand the meanings and emotions behind the words while listening to the story richly expressed by native speakers in the different languages. Your child can also record his or her own voice in any language to recite lines spoken by the main characters in this dynamic and charming story!
Kirari and Zanbu offers an immersive story experience with a heightened sense of reality and depth through stereoscopic reproduction of various sights and sounds found in nature. Let your child explore and enjoy this world!
The scenes in each chapter are constructed so that the meanings and emotions behind the words in each language, enhanced by beautiful piano and violin background music, are naturally absorbed by your child through repeated watching and listening.
Basic app operations:
Settings:
You can select your preferred languages for both spoken words and text (subtitles).
For example, you can freely combine options such as reading English subtitles while listening to the story in Japanese.
You can set the story to play in manual mode (where you control the forward, backward and repeat playing of each scene) or auto mode (where the story plays from start to finish, with the option to replay from the start).
If you pre-record lines in your own or another’s voice, you can optionally play the story in recorded voice mode. You will then hear that voice instead of the default native speakers’ voices.
You can individually adjust the playback volumes of the background music, spoken language, and sound effects.
Recording:
You can record your favorite lines from the main characters in your own voice.
If you select “recorded mode” in the settings, you can then hear your own voice recordings for those parts of the story. Or children can listen to the main characters’ lines as recorded in their father’s or mother’s voice.
You can change the recorded audio any time, so all members of your family can enjoy recording the lines for each main character in their own voices.
Story Overview
Part 2:
It seems that the Sun Goddess “Kirari” and the Water Demon “Zanbu” will never meet again or ever get together. The moon and a group of brave stars take pity on these two and discuss what can be done. But miracles aren’t easy to perform. At the same time, Kirari is facing several problems, but also learning and experiencing many new things. She also finds hope for the future. Meanwhile, all Zanbu can think about is his desire to see Kirari again, which leads him to another dangerous decision that upsets the natural cycle of the world. Zanbu then becomes weak and falls ill. Shortly thereafter, Zanbu hears Kirari’s beautiful voice in what he thinks is a dream, but is actually her speaking to him. The wishes of the moon, the stars, and also of humanity then succeed in creating a miracle in response to Kirari and Zanbu’s pure hearts. When their once impossible dream of being together finally comes true, the sparkling light of life pours from them to renew the blighted forests, rivers, sea and land.