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Grave Of The Fireflies (1988) – Review
In the realms of animated history, it’s become common knowledge that Pixar has an unerring ability to leech salty tears from from even the most jaded moviegoer as some devestating turn of events has us ugly-crying at the misfortune of a bereaved fish or a discarded toy. But while many of you may think the the pinnacle of weep inducing animation peaked with the opening ten minutes of Up, Studio Ghibli had already been responsible for one of the most devestating emotional gut-punches years earlier with the unfeasibly sad Grave Of The Fireflies.
While the lion’s share of Ghibli’s output at that time had been helmed by Hayao Miyazaki, for this sob-inducing opus, the Studio’s other leading light, Isao Takahata, stepped into the breach and something quite unlike anything released by this, or any other animation house at that time. Ground breaking is the least of the thing this movie will break as the house that gave us the unmitigated joy of My Neighbour Totoro proves that it can snap us just as easily.It’s March of 1945 and droning American bombers pound the city of Kobe into fiery submission during the final days of the Pacific War. As rampant fire takes out the buildings not out and out obliterated, we meet fourteen year-old Seita and his young sister Setsuko, two children of an Imperial Japanese Navy Captain soon find themselves homeless when their home is claimed by the destruction. Worse yet, despite only seeing their mother only shortly before as she headed off to a shelter, it seems that she was badly burned in the attack and dies from her wounds before a hospital can be found to admit her.
Choosing to save the innocent Setsuko the pain of the news, Seita takes the burden onto himself and keeps the news from both his sister and his aunt, who is forced to take them in. While Seita managed to provide somewhat by scavenging some of his mother’s belongs when can be traded for rice, life with his aunt soon becomes awkward when she treats her two charges significantly worse than her own, immediate family, which leads to Seita making a fateful choice. Leaving home, the young duo pledge to try and survive on their own, despite the fact that you need to be part of a community for anyone to properly survive in such tight conditions.
Making their home in an abandoned bomb shelter, at first the children believe that they’ve found some sort of idyllic existence as they wash in the nearby river and live off the land. However, as their reserves start to dwindle and the realities of a fourteen year-old and his little sister living rough in post war Japan start to make themselves known, a playful life soon becomes a tragic struggle as Seita desperately looks for more ways to feed his rapidly weakening sibling.While a lot of Studio Ghibli’s earlier works had used a fantasy setting to gently press an anti-war sentiment, here the studio chose not to hide behind alien bugs and complex flying contraptions in order to put a point across and instead delivered a movie set directly at a point in actual history giving them (and us) nowhere to hide. Based on a semi-autobiographical short story by Akiyuki Nosaka, Takahata had similar experiences during the war himself and thus the whole experience feels almost overwhelmingly personal. But while the anti-war message seems pretty cut and dry, the director has repeatedly denied this, instead stating that the repeated tragedies that befall the two children are truly caused by their subsequent isolation from society and social norms as no one seems willing to step in and help these two kids who are obviously going to die if they try to continue the way they’re going. Yes, the war has caused the destruction, but the inability of the survivors to accept anything other than the norm presented to them causes then to shun two children simply trying to survive their own way.
In many ways, there’s some parallels between this film and Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One as both not only feature a sense of life trying to persevere in the aftermath of war, but both feature an innocent, orphaned, impossibly pure young child utterly oblivious to the events around her (seriously, Setsuko and Akiko are practically identical). But while both movies show the painful hardship of trying to eek out an existence in such trying conditions, Grave Of The Fireflies doesn’t include a massive Kaiju to distract us from the yawning loss. In fact, in many circles, the film has been dubbed as one of, if not the saddest film ever made which pretty much clues you in to what eventually happens to our two young leads. In fact, I’d go as far to say that Grave Of The Fireflies is the perfect film foe those who believes that Raymond Briggs’ When The Wind Blows is far too upbeat.The result is cinematic alchemy. Takahata constantly heaps on the sadness as war, death, society, malnutrition and a shitty aunt take their inexorable toll on two kids who only want to live. You could point a finger at Seita’s decision to leave their aunt’s care as a contributing factor, but on the other hand, he’s a fourteen year-old boy who thinks he’s doing what is right in unimaginable circumstances. Impressively, despite all the sorrow and trauma, Takahata focuses on the happy moments, letting the dread build up naturally in the background. The kids are enraptured by using fireflies to light up their shelter at night and Setsuko’s life is constantly enlivened whenever she gets to have one of their stash of fruit drops – but reality looms at virtually every moment and while the movie mostly takes a stance of childlike wonder, when real-life intrudes it’s nothing less than devestating.
The sight of Seita seeing his seared mother wrapped in bandages is legitimately horrifying, as is the matter-of-fact nature of her death and cremation while the young boy simply has to accept what’s going on. Similarly, watching the child be viciously beaten by a farmer after trying to steal sugar cane will no doubt have you loudly questioning why no one is helping an obviously starving child. Even news of Japanse surrendering comes to Seita too late as the sinking of the Japanese fleet means that he father probably died weeks ago without his children having a single clue. However, possibly Grave Of The Fireflies’ greatest trick is starting the film with Seita starving to death and both his and Setsuko’s bewildered looking ghosts are the ones who shepherd us through their agonisingly moving backstory.An utter masterpiece that busies itself about emotionally crippling it’s audience right from the word go, Grave Of The Fireflies may not be a film I’ll return to anytime soon, but that because it’s so damn good at doubling you over with some of the saddest storytelling you’re even likely to experience. Miyazaki may be adept at creating worlds of fantastical wonder, but Takahata knows how to use realism to really hit us where it hurts. Stunning animation, flawless performances and a merciless dedication to bringing you your knee means that in the storied history of Studio Ghibli, it’s the fireflies that (for once) last the longest.
#1980s #1988 #Animation #Anime #AyanoShiraishi #FilmReview #GraveOfTheFireflies #IsaoTakahata #Japan #StudioGhibli #TsutomuTatsumi #War #YoshikoShinohara
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I just can't imagine watching Grave of the Fireflies back to back with My Neighbour Totoro. What an emotional cataclysm.
A fascinating intertextual analysis about two of Studio Ghibli's finest, originally screened as a double feature.
38 years ago, Studio Ghibli pulled off a Barbenheimer with two anime classics
https://www.polygon.com/my-neighbor-totoro-grave-of-the-fireflies-double-feature-studio-ghibli/#StudioGhibli #TonariNoTotoro #MyNeighborTotoro #GraveOfTheFireflies #DoubleFeature #Polygon
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I just can't imagine watching Grave of the Fireflies back to back with My Neighbour Totoro. What an emotional cataclysm.
A fascinating intertextual analysis about two of Studio Ghibli's finest, originally screened as a double feature.
38 years ago, Studio Ghibli pulled off a Barbenheimer with two anime classics
https://www.polygon.com/my-neighbor-totoro-grave-of-the-fireflies-double-feature-studio-ghibli/#StudioGhibli #TonariNoTotoro #MyNeighborTotoro #GraveOfTheFireflies #DoubleFeature #Polygon
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I just can't imagine watching Grave of the Fireflies back to back with My Neighbour Totoro. What an emotional cataclysm.
A fascinating intertextual analysis about two of Studio Ghibli's finest, originally screened as a double feature.
38 years ago, Studio Ghibli pulled off a Barbenheimer with two anime classics
https://www.polygon.com/my-neighbor-totoro-grave-of-the-fireflies-double-feature-studio-ghibli/#StudioGhibli #TonariNoTotoro #MyNeighborTotoro #GraveOfTheFireflies #DoubleFeature #Polygon
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I just can't imagine watching Grave of the Fireflies back to back with My Neighbour Totoro. What an emotional cataclysm.
A fascinating intertextual analysis about two of Studio Ghibli's finest, originally screened as a double feature.
38 years ago, Studio Ghibli pulled off a Barbenheimer with two anime classics
https://www.polygon.com/my-neighbor-totoro-grave-of-the-fireflies-double-feature-studio-ghibli/#StudioGhibli #TonariNoTotoro #MyNeighborTotoro #GraveOfTheFireflies #DoubleFeature #Polygon
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I just can't imagine watching Grave of the Fireflies back to back with My Neighbour Totoro. What an emotional cataclysm.
A fascinating intertextual analysis about two of Studio Ghibli's finest, originally screened as a double feature.
38 years ago, Studio Ghibli pulled off a Barbenheimer with two anime classics
https://www.polygon.com/my-neighbor-totoro-grave-of-the-fireflies-double-feature-studio-ghibli/#StudioGhibli #TonariNoTotoro #MyNeighborTotoro #GraveOfTheFireflies #DoubleFeature #Polygon
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #GraveoftheFireflies #Atonement #Hamnet 10 Saddest Period Dramas, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TR84YT
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El drama de Ghibli, LA TUMBA DE LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS.
#tempvsfrangit #inktober2025 #inktober2025firefly #art #mastoart #fediart #illustration #doodle #sketch #drawing #anime #manga #ghibli #latumbadelasluciernagas #hotarunohaka #graveofthefireflies
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El drama de Ghibli, LA TUMBA DE LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS.
#tempvsfrangit #inktober2025 #inktober2025firefly #art #mastoart #fediart #illustration #doodle #sketch #drawing #anime #manga #ghibli #latumbadelasluciernagas #hotarunohaka #graveofthefireflies
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El drama de Ghibli, LA TUMBA DE LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS.
#tempvsfrangit #inktober2025 #inktober2025firefly #art #mastoart #fediart #illustration #doodle #sketch #drawing #anime #manga #ghibli #latumbadelasluciernagas #hotarunohaka #graveofthefireflies
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El drama de Ghibli, LA TUMBA DE LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS.
#tempvsfrangit #inktober2025 #inktober2025firefly #art #mastoart #fediart #illustration #doodle #sketch #drawing #anime #manga #ghibli #latumbadelasluciernagas #hotarunohaka #graveofthefireflies
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El drama de Ghibli, LA TUMBA DE LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS.
#tempvsfrangit #inktober2025 #inktober2025firefly #art #mastoart #fediart #illustration #doodle #sketch #drawing #anime #manga #ghibli #latumbadelasluciernagas #hotarunohaka #graveofthefireflies
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Cartoons could in fact make me weep like a baby
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What’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – July 8th, 2025 – Lethal Weapon, The Stuff, Grave of the Fireflies and more. Details here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/07/08/whats-new-in-home-video-pop-culture-july-8th-2025-lethal-weapon-the-stuff-grave-of-the-fireflies-and-more/
#OutThisWeek #NewReleases #film #Bluray #4K #LethalWeapon #TheStuff #GraveofTheFireflies #Eephus
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Blu-ray Review: Grave of the Fireflies. Read it here https://bit.ly/40uTnLa by Trevor Hogg
#GraveoftheFireflies #StudioGhibli #film #bluray #review #Japan #animated #anime
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POM Anime Strikes Multi-Territory Deals For Quartet Of Titles Including ‘Lupin the IIIrd The Movie’ & ‘DAN DA DAN: Evil Eye’
#News #Akira #DANDADANEvilEye #GraveoftheFireflies #LupintheIIIrdTheMovie #POMAnimehttps://deadline.com/2025/06/pom-anime-acquires-lupin-the-iiird-dan-da-dan-evil-eye-1236425683/
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Ma note : Grave of the Fireflies (1988) ★★★★★★★★★★ #EnRegardant https://trakt.tv/movies/grave-of-the-fireflies-1988 #GraveOfTheFireflies #trakt
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Je commence à regarder Le tombeau des lucioles (1988) #EnRegardant https://trakt.tv/movies/grave-of-the-fireflies-1988 #GraveOfTheFireflies #trakt
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I can’t seem to remember if Freddy or Jason is the killer in Grave of the Fireflies 🤔
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Netflix has announced plans to stream "Hotaru no Haka" (Grave of the Fireflies), an animated film produced by Studio Ghibli, from July 15 in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/16/japan/netflix-ghibli-film/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hotarunohaka #netflix #studioghibli #wwii #us #streaming #graveofthefireflies
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Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies, the acclaimed animated historical drama directed by Isao Takahata (Pom Poko, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya) will be released on high-definition Blu-ray on July 8 from GKIDS, with distribution by Shout! Studios. #Gkids #GraveoftheFireflies #IsaoTakahata #ShoutStudios #StudioGhibli
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Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies, the acclaimed animated historical drama directed by Isao Takahata (Pom Poko, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya) will be released on high-definition Blu-ray on July 8 from GKIDS, with distribution by Shout! Studios. #Gkids #GraveoftheFireflies #IsaoTakahata #ShoutStudios #StudioGhibli
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Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies, the acclaimed animated historical drama directed by Isao Takahata (Pom Poko, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya) will be released on high-definition Blu-ray on July 8 from GKIDS, with distribution by Shout! Studios. #Gkids #GraveoftheFireflies #IsaoTakahata #ShoutStudios #StudioGhibli
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Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies, the acclaimed animated historical drama directed by Isao Takahata (Pom Poko, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya) will be released on high-definition Blu-ray on July 8 from GKIDS, with distribution by Shout! Studios. #Gkids #GraveoftheFireflies #IsaoTakahata #ShoutStudios #StudioGhibli
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Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies, the acclaimed animated historical drama directed by Isao Takahata (Pom Poko, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya) will be released on high-definition Blu-ray on July 8 from GKIDS, with distribution by Shout! Studios. #Gkids #GraveoftheFireflies #IsaoTakahata #ShoutStudios #StudioGhibli
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Keine Ahnung, wie die Fassung klingt, aber wenn ihr heulen wollt, dann schaut den Film. Und auch sonst ein sehr guter Film.
https://www.anime2you.de/news/870843/netflix-die-letzten-gluehwuermchen-deutsch/
#studioghibli #anime #dieletztengluhwurmchen #graveofthefireflies
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I had never seen 火垂るの墓 (Grave of the Fireflies) before today, and it's brilliant, extremely sad but more than anything incredibly powerful. Even with the very first sentence, spoken by Seita, being 「昭和20年9月21日夜僕は死んだ」 ("On the night of September 21, 1945, I died" ) and so trying to prepare viewers for what is to come, I still wasn't quite prepared.
If you haven seen it (but most of you probably have), please do.
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Honestly, this review works for any ongoing atrocity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ELLhETCcGU #GraveOfTheFireflies #火垂るの墓 #anime #warcrimes
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It is time to once again inflict PTSD on a new generation of anime watchers, with the most popular medium of the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhlh7JVcTt8 #GraveOfTheFireflies #火垂るの墓 #anime #Netflix -
Oh goodness.
Well, if you are ready for some emotional damage, Grave of the Fireflies is coming to Netflix in September https://www.fandompost.com/2024/08/20/netflix-schedules-grave-of-the-fireflies-anime-streaming/
My goodness is that movie intense.
Source: @fandompost
#Netflix #Anime #AnimeMovies #GraveOfTheFireflies #AnimeNews #Streaming #AnimeStreaming
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Oh goodness.
Well, if you are ready for some emotional damage, Grave of the Fireflies is coming to Netflix in September https://www.fandompost.com/2024/08/20/netflix-schedules-grave-of-the-fireflies-anime-streaming/
My goodness is that movie intense.
Source: @fandompost
#Netflix #Anime #AnimeMovies #GraveOfTheFireflies #AnimeNews #Streaming #AnimeStreaming
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Oh goodness.
Well, if you are ready for some emotional damage, Grave of the Fireflies is coming to Netflix in September https://www.fandompost.com/2024/08/20/netflix-schedules-grave-of-the-fireflies-anime-streaming/
My goodness is that movie intense.
Source: @fandompost
#Netflix #Anime #AnimeMovies #GraveOfTheFireflies #AnimeNews #Streaming #AnimeStreaming
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Oh goodness.
Well, if you are ready for some emotional damage, Grave of the Fireflies is coming to Netflix in September https://www.fandompost.com/2024/08/20/netflix-schedules-grave-of-the-fireflies-anime-streaming/
My goodness is that movie intense.
Source: @fandompost
#Netflix #Anime #AnimeMovies #GraveOfTheFireflies #AnimeNews #Streaming #AnimeStreaming
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Studio Ghibli’s ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ Sets Netflix Release Date
#News #BreakingNews #GraveoftheFireflies #HayaoMiyazaki #Japan #MyNeighbourTotoro #Netflix #StudioGhiblihttps://deadline.com/2024/08/studio-ghibli-grave-of-the-fireflies-netflix-1236044697/
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Grave of the Fireflies | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhlh7JVcTt8
#GraveOfTheFireflies is coming to #Netflix. It is truely one of the great works of #Ghibli. But I bears mentioning. While this can be a sweet tale of a brother trying to care for his sister in Japan after WWII, it is heartbreaking.That said, I believe it should be watched -at least- once. Similar to #Godzilla #MinusOne, it shows postwar Japan, & what ppl went thru that's not often talked about.
CW: poverty
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So movies don't usually bother me. I love gore horror suspense or anything.
But one movie that really stuck with me was #graveofthefireflies not sure why. It's G I think. But something about it is hard to shake off. Not sure if it's because I have young children. Or how they portrayed innocence in the film.
But anytime I put it on I feel like my stomach was punched
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Two kids die after World War II, it's super sad.
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Which is the better anime movie about the impact of World War II, Grave of the Fireflies or In This Corner of the World? After watching both, I have to go with the latter.
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Although Grave of the Fireflies is supposed to be about adults abandoning children in need, I can't help but put a lot of the blame for what happened to Seita and Setsuko on Seita. He made a lot of poor choices.
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Grave of the Fireflies gives us a look at what surviving during World War II was like for Japanese children.
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25 Best Movie Tearjerkers of All Time, Ranked
#Collider #Movie #GraveoftheFireflies #CinemaParadiso #Casablanca #ToyStory3 -
10 Best War Movies From a Child's Perspective
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(Not so) New intro since I moved instances! (from @[email protected])
- 20-something from the Philippines 🇵🇭
- Just got out of college and now officially an unemployed bum
- Interests fluctuate a lot between #WebDev, #GameDev, #DigitalArt, #PixelArt, #Blogging, and probably other stuff.
- Anime and manga: #KaguyaSama, #FullmetalAlchemist, #GraveOfTheFireFlies, #Yotsubato, #Bokurano, #KOn, and others
- Games: #Danganronpa, #AceAttorney, #SteinsGate, #Celeste, #Omori, #StardewValley, and maybe others
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I'm updating my introduction since there's a lot of new people coming over. Hopefully, this is easier to skim through.
- 20-something from the Philippines 🇵🇭
- Computer Science student (soon-to-be graduate)
- Interests fluctuate a lot between #WebDev, #GameDev, #DigitalArt, #PixelArt, #Blogging, and probably other stuff.
- Anime and manga: #KaguyaSama, #FullmetalAlchemist, #GraveOfTheFireFlies, #Yotsubato, #Bokurano, #KOn, and others
- Games: #Danganronpa, #AceAttorney, #SteinsGate, #Celeste, #Omori, #StardewValley, and maybe others
- My anime blog: https://dopeydopierdopiest.wordpress.com/
Other hashtags:
#Nijisanji
#CommunityTV
#GodotEngineI sometimes talk about NSFW stuff (always with a CW) or reblog NSFW posts, so maybe don't follow me if you're a minor.
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CW: Manga Spoilers - Do Retry, Chapter 1
Do Retry - Story of a brother and sister duo who are living on the streets after WW2 in Japan as their home was destroyed & Mom died after US attacks.
No, it's not #GraveOfTheFireflies.
That's the setting of Do Retry. The kid's Dad was a boxer before the war & the son always wanted to do that too.
The first chapter ends with what appears to be him getting that opportunity after he gets enough money to help his sick sister.
I'm not sure where this will end up going, but it's got underground boxing tournaments so...let's hear it out.
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'La mañana siguiente, puse algo de las cenizas de Setsuko en la lata de caramelos y bajé la colina. Nunca volví al refugio.'
- Seita, La tumba de las luciérnagas (1988)#Latumbadelasluciérnagas #GraveoftheFireflies #IsaoTakahata #StudioGhibli #Seita #Setsuko
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'La mañana siguiente, puse algo de las cenizas de Setsuko en la lata de caramelos y bajé la colina. Nunca volví al refugio.'
- Seita, La tumba de las luciérnagas (1988)#Latumbadelasluciérnagas #GraveoftheFireflies #IsaoTakahata #StudioGhibli #Seita #Setsuko
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Spirited Away #spiritedaway
Weathering With You #weatheringwithyou
Grave Of The Fireflies #graveofthefireflies
Metropolis #metropolis
The Girl Who Leapt through Time #thegirlwholepthtroughtime
Ghost In The Shell #ghostintheshell
Tokyo Godfathers #tokyogodfathers
Akira #akira
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade #jinroh
A Silent Voice #asilentvoice
Summer With Coo #summerwithcoo
Inu-Oh #inuoh -
Spirited Away #spiritedaway
Weathering With You #weatheringwithyou
Grave Of The Fireflies #graveofthefireflies
Metropolis #metropolis
The Girl Who Leapt through Time #thegirlwholepthtroughtime
Ghost In The Shell #ghostintheshell
Tokyo Godfathers #tokyogodfathers
Akira #akira
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade #jinroh
A Silent Voice #asilentvoice
Summer With Coo #summerwithcoo
Inu-Oh #inuoh