Spoilers in bound. Watch the short first! This is one of my favorites. At the time of writing this, it's available on youtube with english and spanish subtitles.
Mizu no Kotoba, or Aquatic Language, it's the first short of Yoshiura, Yasuhiro, in which he expunges his views on Kotodama, the belief that words are living things, with inherent power when they're spoken. This idea isn't just present in this short, not by a long-shot, but it's one of the few…