Anime HATERS Watch *Grave of the Fireflies* | Reaction/Review

[@fishsmellbad1862]

I can't believe they chose THIS as their first Ghibli movie 😭

[@jv_ion]

I had this as my last and it was a big mistake, the level of depression is too much lol. At least if they watch another Ghibli movie that is lighthearted, it would be a healing from this one

[@anonisnoone6125]

They brought this upon themselves. 💀

[@KimForsberg]

Like starting a Steven Spielberg top 25 movies marathon with Schindler's List. Which you would be if you went with the ratings I guess... but good lord what an introduction.

[@crazdasian]

Woof. Somebody lacked critical information

[@momoryoma4488]

@@KimForsberg same thought. Well I guess, they will turn to another Studio Ghibli series :) Hope that they try Spirited Away

[@WokeSlayer0204]

Japanese here. Thank you so much for watching this amazing movie. One thing I wanna emphasize is that the point of this movie isn’t to make the US look bad or portray Japan as a victim but to spread the awareness of what war causes to people and why it should never happen. Everyone will suffer in a war except the elites regardless of whichever side you stand for. If you think like “oh Japan playing a victim” or “damn the US deserves the worst” after watching this, you’re a part of the reasons why war will never stop. God bless us 🇯🇵🇺🇸

[@fikuS-m1d]

I agree. There were people in this situation not only in Japan, but also in the United States. And even today, there are people all over the world who are in the same situation as in this film.

[@passionfruityum1572]

Great comment❤ Japanese here myself too(mid age)

[@cypriansun]

Golden comment right here

[@北川-y6v]

私もそう思います。皆同じ間違いを犯した。国籍は関係なく、無慈悲に命が奪われてはいけない。そして忘れてはいけないのは、この映画で表されているのは実際に起こった悲惨な出来事のほんの一部に過ぎないということです。このストーリーがいかに柔らかく優しくぼかして表現されているかということを知らなければならない。

[@Megrez-Alberich]

Actually, according to Isao Takahata and Akiyuki Nosaka, the film was meant to criticize and guilt-trip the Japanese youth of the 80s, who apparently had it easy in those days. As a result, just like Seita those Japanese kids had become incredibly lazy, entitled, selfish, arrogant, and disrespectful to their elders. The real, disturbing message in Grave of the Fireflies is that Seita is responsible for his and his sister's death, because he was too lazy to take part in the war effort, and too proud and too cocky to apologize to his aunt when she scolded him for spending his time lying around and twiddling his thumbs instead of making himself useful and pull his weight like everybody else in wartime. It is explicitly said in the film, when a farmer tells Seita he should swallow his pride, go back to his aunt's, and then apologize to her and kindly ask her to take them back in. Which is why the character of the aunt was altered a bit as compared to her counterpart in the semi-autobiographic short story the film is based on*, in order to make her reproaches toward Seita more legitimate. That's also why Isao Takahata kept saying in interviews and festivals that Grave of the Fireflies was _not_ an anti-war movie. *in the short story, it is said that the aunt was an uncaring woman who made a great show of sharing Seita's food supplies with her neighbors just so that they would compliment her on her apparent generosity, and that she was actually relieved when the kids left her house for good.

[@zaynsaftab]

30 years after Grave of the Fireflies was released, fans discovered something about the poster. When you turn brightness all the way up, you'll see a B-29 bombing plane in the sky. What was thought as miracle lights of fireflies were really a rain of explosives.

[@DXDragon38]

Holy crap, really?

[@farahferchichi160]

@@DXDragon38 yeah

[@sheldonalberto1438]

@@DXDragon38yep, unfortunately.

[@poypoyh4413]

“Hotaru” in the original Japanese title “Hotaru no Haka” is written by 火垂る(fire+dropping) in kanji while it has the same pronunciation with 蛍(firefly).

[@cabbage_cat]

​@@poypoyh4413omg I just made that connection

[@myTERAexperience]

Years ago I found out the theater near me played Ghibli movies every month. I chose to see this for the first, and obviously only time...at the theaters... i was 3rd row from the front, nobody in my row or in front but pretty packed behind me. After the film ended, i made the decision to sit through the credits to wipe my tears and dry my eyes. 10 minutes go by and I finally stand up and turn to leave since the theater was dead quiet, assuming everyone already left. Wrong. Theater was still loaded with people in their seats, silently crying and hugging eachother. It was the most surreal moment of my life. I don't think I'll ever experience something so surreal like again. I literally can't tell people about this movie without breaking down.

[@Kawoostigri]

Wow that really sounds surreal !!! I would just believe in humanity again if I saw what you saw !

[@Je_Jo]

I cried like 8 times, for me a sad thing is looking to Setsuko' doll. Idk if you guys had the same feeling, but for me its so sad, to us it hasn't life, but for she, even in a war battling through rough situations, it still has life, and she plays with it. I don't know how to exactly explain it, but looking at his doll face, remembers me so much the childhood, and the can of candy too, she takes it to everywhere even after that became useless, just like we made ourselves with random things that we thought were cool/cute/beautiful/or just remember us some moments

[@thelordoftheweebs9501]

Dude I bet it would be like that for me if I went to a reshowing of the film. I'd be crying too obviously.

[@Blutregen_]

My theater did the same thing and my mom took me and my sister when I was like 7 and she was four. She thought it was gonna be magical and happy like other ghibli movies. Boy were we wrong. I fucking cried for hours lmao

[@dazaieatingchips1271]

@@Blutregen_ my country released this movie too, i thought it's just gonna be a chill movie but i also fcking cry. And a couple of foreigner behind me cried so hard that I can even hear them. I sat in the middle, they sat at the back

[@AlLenChei]

No matter whose war it is, it's always the civilians who suffer from it.

[@neo-ic7un]

その通りです！

[@ribos2762]

That's right, happening in Gaza and Ukraine right now.

[@generalali7609]

no words like that have ever touched my heart so hard

[@markthedark595]

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die

[@arya3193]

Exactly

[@jbearclowater]

I love how Brig called out that this in't just something that happened in World War 2, this is still happening in parts of the world. This movie really makes you think.

[@ooooooo5769]

Ahh, like Gaza war

[@myheartwillstopinjoy8142]

Happening rn in Palestine. I saw things that the mind can't accept from how terrible they are.

[@ooooooo5769]

@@myheartwillstopinjoy8142 yas and it is more than this film🇵🇸💔💔😢😢

[@georgemichael1482]

Poor Ukraine @@ooooooo5769

[@Manosdepiedra1979]

@@ooooooo5769 true like Imperial Japan, Hamas started a war that they have no possibility of winning.

[@MysteriMustacheToast]

Yes, this is based on the semi-autobiographical short story of a young Japanese boy who was also left struggling to take care of his little sister all by himself after their parents died in WW2. Sadly real life ‘Seita’ was not as selfless and heroic as his film counterpart, and very understandably so due to his own very young age and helplessness at the time. He remembers being much more selfish with the food he would manage to find, even with his just as hungry sister standing next to him and watching. To makes things even more tragic, the real life Seita had another younger sister who also died from malnutrition so he was forced to watch not just one, but two of his siblings slowly starve to death right in front of him. The film is basically introspect on his tremendous survivors guilt, believing that he could have taken better care of his little sister, as well as a projection of his regrets and how he wishes he could’ve done things. The saddest aspect of the narrative really is just the raw realism of it because even though his film counterpart successfully fulfilled the picture perfect, protective older brother image the author fantasized he he’d been, it still wasn’t enough to keep his Setsuko alive and give them both a happy ending. It’s such a sad but meaningful story.

[@allursins]

I wouldn't blame him at all, war and survival does things to people

[@jacksan1]

The author, Akiyuki Nosaka, had Seita become the sacrificial lamb for his sins and guilt. Seita had to pay the price for what the author felt he had done/failed to do versus his little sister, Keiko (Setsuko was the name of his adoptive mother as well as of a grade school classmate of his he had a crush on).

[@yellowrain2062]

that's so horrible. No one should have to go through anything like that ever. I hope he's found peace wherever he is

[@jacksan1]

@yellowrain2062 Mr. Nosaka, in one essay he released in 1967, looked back at his own condition as a 14-year-old boy and said, without excusing himself, "I can say with confidence that I did love Keiko (his second little sister and the model for Setsuko). But in the face of hunger, everything, including love and gentleness, became colorless reality."

[@jacksan1]

In the same 1967 essay, Mr. Nosaka continued: "In the summer of 1945, that a 14-year-old boy could not raise a 15-month-old baby is probably nothing for anyone to be bothered by. You could say that Keiko was simply unlucky. But the memory of my sneaking the food of a 15-month-old baby and striking her head (Mr. Nosaka said he did so to stop Keiko from crying), this is not something that will just slip away. "When I watch Mao (his first daughter) wildly go through the gaufres, cookies, and chocolates and leave behind unfinished mandarin oranges, apples and bananas, call me sentimental, but Keiko returns to me. My heart aches, and I wish I could give but just one piece of all these for Keiko to eat. I even feel resentment towards Mao who can enjoy the luxury. "If there were a time machine, I want to carry in my arms all the sweets that I can carry and give them to Keiko to eat." (From "A Lullaby of a Playboy," FUJIN KORON, March 1967)

[@やばいまたたび]

見た人は「二度と見たくない、けれど必ず一度は見るべき」と言う作品。

[@tsukkigakirei]

その通りです、私もそう思うよ。 めっちゃ悲しいけど、、、

[@JoseIgnacioSilva1986]

De acuerdo, yo la compré y es una buena película. Pero es muy triste, refleja muy bien las consecuencias negativas de una guerra. Con respecto a recomendarla, solamente lo haría con personas que les guste ver series o películas basadas en la II Guerra Mundial.

[@ののの-h8l]

その通りです 毎年放送して欲しい ……みないけど……

[@ri-yu-2538]

子供達には全員必ず見せてます…自分は見ないけど…😢 最初の駅の時点で涙腺が決壊してしまう。

[@Nuri722]

So true, this film broke me. I watched it once when I was younger, years later I tried to re-watch it to show my bf, so he could experience this masterpiece. But I was crying from start to finish since I knew what was coming 😭

[@luckyk7978]

I wish all citizens of the world could stand together & refuse to go to war. We are the ones who die for the whims of cowards hiding behind desks & bodyguards.

[@LoXHumaN]

It’s like System of a Down said, “why do they always send the poor?”

[@wwe12153]

so if the rich participated in war then there is no need to stop it ? it isn't that simple

[@fikuS-m1d]

It is always only the politicians who gain from wars, leaving nothing but negatives for the young soldiers, their families, and the people. As you can see from reading Attack on Titan, there are no evil people in this world.

[@mlbp2567]

That's capitalism@@LoXHumaN

[@liudmylab2328]

The tragedy is that when smart and good people throw weapons away and become pacifist, at that time many crazy people start to produce more weapon, more propaganda to invade, to start agressive war. Ukraine gave all its nuclear weapon to russia in 90s and was sure that its safe and leads to peasful future, at that time russia wanted the opposite, it opened for russia the road to invasion and agression

[@ラル部長]

I am Japanese. My father and mother had a similar experience with Setsuko. My parents lived in Osaka when they was a child, and my parents were 3 years old when the Pacific War ended. At the end of the war, there was a massive, indiscriminate air raid by the U.S. military on a civilian populated town in Osaka. My father and mother, like Setsuko, were carried on their backs by their older brother and parents as they fled through the streets of Osaka. My mother said she saw charred bodies lying all over the place. She said she was just so scared and wanted the war to end as soon as possible. When I was a child, I once asked my father to watch this movie with me, but he refused. At that time, my father said to me, "I am afraid to remember those days, that's why I can't watch this movie. I remember I regretted telling my father that I wanted to watch this movie with him. Not because he refused, but because I thought I might have made him remember something unpleasant.

[@virginiaandrade8009]

It's unfathomable that people lived through that amount of destruction. I hope your parents are living a good life now and that they have their outlets for what they experienced. I wish your family nothing but the best.

[@ChristmasCarolyn]

For what it's worth, I think it's important that you want to watch it to learn your parents' history, and maybe give them a good hug. It's good that u want to know. U can't possibly relate, but at least u can get some understanding of what they went through. An indirect vicariously tragic sort of bonding with your parents.

[@Taquitipia]

You should not regret it. Your father gave you an honest answer and doing that always helps to close the traumas. You helped your father when he verbalized to you why he didn't want to see the movie and I'm sure he thought a lot about it as another step toward overcoming the pain.

[@Imjustahuman1206]

Hello my great grandmother was a victim of war too, although it happened in the Philippines and it was the time that Japanese invade our country during WW2 and my great grandmother is a comfort woman....her father and mother died due to the extreme torture... personally I never liked war, it only brings resentment and sadness no matter what country you are in, innocents were the one who's going to suffer...😢

[@morrymorrycat]

15:38 Setsuko's voice actor was 5 years old at the time of recording. She became so emotionally involved with Setsuko that she really cried during the recording. The director gave up on retaking this performance, although the length was not enough. Where the length was not enough, the audio was repeated in the sound processing. "IYAYA! IYAYA! IYAYA!"part. If you listen with earphones, you can hear that the sounds are connected.

[@virginiaandrade8009]

Omg STOP it was actually a little girl having to enact this..I'm crying again.. omfg. I thought I was done being devastated. That's just too much

[@fiveoctaves]

@@virginiaandrade8009 Takahata, the late director, was insistent on authenticity. Both Setsuko and Seita were portrayed by actors their same age.

[@superme63]

Setsuko is actuallly saying 'Iie, iie, iie!', which is japanese for 'No, no, no!'.

[@あみあみ-z6l]

​​@@superme63"Iie" is standard Japanese, "iyaya" is Kansai dialect

[@morukichikurabu]

様々な国籍の若者がこの映画を見て何かを感じて涙してくださったことに感謝したい。 もう35年前の作品になりますがこの2人は今もラストシーンの丘の上で現在の私たちを見つめています。 今も世界中でこのふたりと同じように様々な悲劇が起きている、また同じ事を繰り返してしまっていることが 本当に情けない。

[@Mangomelonbar]

it really is so sad

[@SoftTangerineDreams]

I was watching an interview with Felix Kammerer who played Paul Bäumer in the 2022 version of All Quiet On The Western Front and while they were filming, the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out. Felix and the rest of the cast were just talking amongst themselves about how we never seem to get any smarter. All Quiet is about world war one, this movie is about world war two and we're on the brink of a third and the thought what we could do with modern technology terrifies me.

[@ito1486]

Seita was just a child.Nobody can blame him for making wrong decisions. The author of this story said that he would've liked to die like Seita at the beginning of the movie. This movie is the saddest movie I've ever watched, but watching it was necessary for me. Thank you for you guys watching and reacting to the movie!

[@kevinappearshere]

I had the same thought till recently I watched an interview that the director Isao said he was surprised how audience sympathized with Seita. When he made the movie he saw him rather like the children of today, saved money and thought he could manage on that, so he didn’t obey his aunt because he could live without relying on her. He knew how to do all the housework and he didn’t try to get along with others even if he was humiliated. He was short tempered and had no perseverance. He thought he had money and could buy and solve everything but in reality money didn’t help much in those days. He had no patience and believed he could live on like that. Isao wanted audience to see that living like Seita could mean death, but people didn’t and only felt sorry for Seita. Isao would love to see more criticisms on Seita, and he thought it’s important that the audience watch the movie with a clear mind.

[@kevinappearshere]

Isao’s review was quite mind blowing to me after so many years I watched it.

[@lavinder11]

​@kevinappearshere That's oke how the directors of Evangelion thought it was strange how many people ended up liking Rei's character. But this should tell the director something about people. Many are just like Seita which is why they sympathize so much.

[@NaNa-wp1ep]

@@kevinappearshere この映画の原作者は、野坂昭如という日本では有名な作家です。彼は後悔と懺悔の気持ちからこの小説を書いたと告白しています。実際の彼はもっと妹に冷淡で、妹は死んでしまったと。清太はこうありたかった野坂氏のファンタジーの部分が大きいのです。 終戦の前後、日本の鉄道駅のあちこちに清太のような戦災孤児が大勢たむろしていましたが、人々は同情するより差別し下げずむことの方が多く、盗みが常習になる子も多く、餓死や凍死も多かったとか。みんな自分が生きる事に精一杯だったそうです。野坂昭如もこのアニメの叔母も、ごく普通の人なのだろうと思います。

[@LiNestHetalia]

​@@kevinappearshere not trying say he's wrong, but it's weird that he expected people would be over critical about a teen boy in a extreme situation like war, shit teenagers have the right to make mistakes like everyone else, that's LITERALLY when they need do It and hopefully learn to be a better version of themselves, the thing is, Seita was not only a teen boy with flaws, he was surviving a literal war with his baby sister, obviously he would make mistakes, he's only human, and I'll never blame a kid for not understanding what they should supposedly do I blame adults for that because after the 23 you should fucking know better

[@geminiii7611]

Saw the title and flinched, I watched this movie in middle school. We had a substitute teacher and we just watched movies in her period when she subbed. When I tell you I WAS BAWLING MY EYES OUTTTT at the end of this movie. I looked around and remember nobody else cried but me, I had never been so overwhelmed in my life. This is still the saddest movie I have ever seen, hands down.

[@OpalKaboi]

That's crazy that no one else cried. I didn't think it was possible to watch this without Some crying

[@OddOtter707]

Your eyes were full of tears, you couldn't see anyone else crying.

[@revanthnagabathula5476]

"And she never woke up " this line hit me soooo hard 😭

[@MishaHusnainAli]

This movie is genius because it shows you the end up front and you know what will happen, but you still get caught up in times and have hope that things will be okay. Incredibly sad and what a gut punch.

[@iwymm7047]

この映画を見てくれてありがとう。 戦争では勝ち負けに関係なく、日本でもアメリカでも同じように辛い経験をされた方がたくさんいらっしゃるはずです。 国籍の違う方たちがこの映画を見て同じ気持ちになってくれていること、とても嬉しく思いました。 これからもリアクション動画楽しみにしています！

[@simple.1829]

でも結局、この映画の本当の悲しみを知ってるのは日本人だけだよ。 英語の字幕で見ても分かるはずない。日本人がこの兵庫弁を聴きながら見るから泣けるんだよ。

[@horiizu1296]

概ね同意するけど日本側の見解の映画を見てくれるだけでもありがたいと思うけどね

[@北川-y6v]

⁠​⁠@@simple.1829確かに共感性においてはそうだよね、日本人から見た悲しさは日本人が1番よく理解できる。ただ私はこういいった映画の目的は共感ではなく、知ってもらうことだと捉えています。無知は罪ですから。

[@leeja1294]

しかし、先に戦争を始めたのは日本であり、日本も同様に韓国を植民地化し、中国を占領しながら彼らに苦痛を与えたという事実を忘れてはなりません。

[@aish125]

いろいろ英語でのこの映画評を読んでいますが、国籍を超えて通じているものはあると思いますよ。（両親が彼らの年頃であった年寄りより）

[@monmongorilla]

何年か前まで、日本では定期的にこの映画がテレビで流れていたので、私たちは小さい頃からこの映画を通して戦争の悲惨さを学んでいましたが、最近は子供に悪影響だ！という1部のクレーマーのせいで放送されなくなりました。 私は英語が話せないので、視聴後みなさんが何を話しているかは分かりませんが、表情だけでも気持ちが伝わります。見てくれてありがとうございます。

[@yuciehayashi266]

全世界に観て欲しい 彼らも誰も1回くらいこの映画を観るべきと言ってた

[@virginiaandrade8009]

Oh my gosh, that must have retraumatized newer generations of children, I'm so glad they decided to stop showing this to young kids. They need to be happy and protected from things like that and teach them as they get older. I'm a mother so it hurts to see our kids exposed to things like that if the threat is over. My heart goes out to families that went through this and as someone from the U.S. I definitely want to speak our and make sure this never happens again

[@grreece]

私の日本語はあまり上手ではありません。こうしたことは今日でも頻繁に起こっていると彼らは言いました。彼らはまた、誰もがこの映画を一生に一度は見るべきだとも言いました。 Google翻訳に少し頼りました* 私のコメントがわかりにくかったらごめんなさい 😭

[@kyosankyosan]

@@grreece thank you！

[@TheUtax2911]

「クレーマーのせい」と仰いますが、そのような事実は確認できませんでしたよ。

[@mckaycarter2749]

This will go down in history as the saddest movie I’ve ever seen 😅

[@Manchesthair]

Still waiting for McKay's villain arc to start.😂

[@buttmunchmcnugget328]

So surprised you geks* picked this one, but also proud lol

[@comeatmebro8120]

It’s one of those movies you watch once and then never again because it’s too emotionally draining

[@Anikeshtripathi7479]

watch some more

[@MysteriMustacheToast]

@@Anikeshtripathi7479 ok calm down Roger Ebert

[@まめ-r3k]

誤解しないで欲しい。日本人はこの映画を視聴する時「日本だけが苦しいんだ！」とは思いません。 「お願いだから世界中で二度と戦争は起こらないでほしい。」と願いながら見ています。

[@jbp9653]

Fun fact: This movie was based on the Author's life and his experience of WW2. The ending is like a part of him that passed away during that war, He survived a sad life and was able to at least immortalized his life in the world. This movie hits super hard if you have a little brother or sister. Story in the reply.

[@jbp9653]

Author: Akiyuki Nosaka Story: It is based on his experiences before, during, and after the firebombing of Kobe in 1945. One of his sisters died as the result of sickness, his adoptive father died during the firebombing proper, and his younger adoptive sister Keiko died of malnutrition in Fukui.

[@HK-rh4yw]

"fun" fact...it's more like sad fact to me

[@joannakurpanik2643]

This film is based on a short story by Akiyuki Nosaka, based on his memories of World War II. It was directed by Isao Takahata. Those are memories of a real living person, there's nothing funny in that.

[@tinyguy9398]

What is even more devastating about this is that the brother actually survived the war and his book (and this movie by extension) is his Mea Culpa, both blaming himself for being too stubborn to truly get the help his sister needed and to basically rewrite history so he suffered the same fate as his sister and died of starvation too. To think he hated himself so much even though he did the best he could given the circumstances makes me sick to my stomach every time I rewatch this movie.

[@fireaza]

This movie is actually an adaptation of a biography, that written by someone who lived through the war and had a younger sister who died in much the same way. The biography was intended as an apology to her.

[@ChristmasCarolyn]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@エリザベス桂-x5y]

最後のシーンで2人が現在の日本を見ている。 日本人として彼達が居たから日本は存続できて今の暮らしがあると思うと彼達に恥ずかしい所は見せられないと思う。

[@MysteriMustacheToast]

I’m still emotionally processing the trauma 12 year old me gained accidentally watching this movie for the very first time, when my unknowing mother just threw it on in the living room for me because “Ghibli can’t possibly miss” and then left to get a rotisserie chicken from Costco for 2 hours. Crazy how a film can just end your entire childhood.

[@allursins]

ARE YOU OKAY BRO 😭😭😭

[@MysteriMustacheToast]

@@allursins n-naur 😭 valuable wisdom was acquired though. Hot off the rack Costco rotisserie chicken after crying from sheer shock and sadness is a w move. Shit was unreal. The only reason I remember all of this is because that particular rotisserie chicken became one of those core memory meals. Suffering is the best seasoning ig.

[@_Ch1wa]

dude thats crazy your mom was like "this lit"

[@anab5090]

Oh no did your mom just find you suffering?

[@sammylane21]

I can relate, character "Large Marge" and her story in "PEE WEE's BIG ADVENTURE" movie ended my childhood.

[@鈴木-h4g]

楽しいアニメがいっぱいある中、このアニメを見てくれてありがとうございます。

[@some-j5l]

This movie was shown at the same time as a Ghibli film called "Totoro.'' Totoro is a very bright work. Setsuko is 4 years old, and Mei in Totoro's works is also 4 years old. The two were very contrasting. I think that this work, like AOT, is not a problem that is unique to Japan, but a story that is common throughout the world. Each has their own justice. I am reminded that it is important to discuss this and understand each other.

[@ants08031236414]

You think Totoro is bright? Perhaps on the surface. I saw so many ghosts along the movie. So many realities that do not match. Elderly siting on branches? Watch that movie again.

[@julianaabatti3454]

I love How every poor inoccent soul begins this film with high spirits and end It like the saddest day ever.

[@_trie8334]

I am Japanese. People around the world are suffering from war. I pray for peace in the world. Thank you for your reaction.

[@tinsval9931]

I'm Japanese. When I was in junior high, I watched this movie with my all classmates in the history class. I complained at the time, but now I'm grateful to my teacher for that choice.

[@DreiCortavoyz]

I'm 16 yrs old with a 13 yr old brother, and a 2 yr old sister. My heart sinks when I imagine me being in that position with my little sister. Its a nightmare I never want to happen.

[@cfe-ya5977]

The director explained that Seita's face expression after burning Setsuko's body says he is relieved because now he doesn't have to look after her. It is not that he did not love her or anything. He wanted to her to live and stay with her, but the reality of the cruel world, he couldn't even take care of himself. This is how tragic wars can be to many people...

[@うんうん-l4i]

何回みても涙が枯れることがないくらい悲しい話。 この映画を色んな人に見てもらえて良かった

[@にゃんちゅう-f3h]

In Japan, this anime is broadcast on TV every August 15th. It's the day the war ended. The day we lost the war. The day I vowed to never fight another war. Japan learned a lot by losing the war. I'm Japanese, but I hope that someday everyone will come to Hiroshima. It is a town full of mistakes, peace, and recovery 🕊️

[@RiRi-ku6xz]

I’m ignorant to not no now much history But I rlly curious how such drastic change happened who changed the politicians and rulers cuz they were so cruel then their is no way they changed heart

[@kongkong1364]

oh you can be assured jp will be involved in more wars in the future. your american master demands it this time, not your emperor.

[@peacefusion]

know your world politics. US are allies commies are aggressors. We dont fight unless provoked or to send aid. And that includes all the crime lords in the middle east. its never just about "oil" as it is about world politics, pacts, and allias.

[@b.s1505]

​@@kongkong1364 oi i assume you are from china or somewhere close to the country and I gotta admire as japanese, that its true sadly. I agree. I meant look what's happening around there these days... lots things happening to stir up the conflict between the countries of eastern asian. and more we hate each other, that straight goes as profits of the... ugh u know what Im talking about.

[@kj-qz2et]

観ると悲しくなるので、確かにもう一度観たい映画では無いでしょうね。 ただ、真ん中の方が言われているように戦争の悲劇をみんなに知ってもらうためにも多くの方に見て欲しいなと思う作品です。

[@jacksan1]

This movie represents every child in the world who got caught in a crossfire that was started due to the grown-ups' inability/unwillingness to resolve conflicts in peaceful manners. Victory or no victory, children suffer. Seita and Setsuko are everywhere.

[@megatme]

The scene at 30:28 shows Kobe City (the city where Setsuko and Seita lived and died) at the time of the film's release, 40 years after the end of the war. They are looking at their hometown after their deaths, which has changed drastically since the time they lived.

[@sheldonalberto1438]

With the wars going on all over the world right now, it will not be a far fetch to say that someone’s story is unfolding right now similar to this movie.

[@mE-zx7pt]

True.

[@まめひとつぶ]

火垂るの墓は大人になった今でも涙が出ます この作品を見てくれた事に感謝します

[@izumikeich.1145]

自分の場合で大人になったからもっと涙が出ます。人生が現在のままで十分つらい、戦争とか耐えられると思わない…

[@grishasamchuk8266]

im from Ukraine, i see so much pain and suffering, but this anime finished me, the world is too cruel, peace to all!

[@limelightraver5690]

What makes it even more heartbreaking is that this anime was based on a true story, The author and his little sister really did go through that nightmare as kids during World War II. The anime was adapted from a 1967 literary award winning story of the same name by the Japanese novelist Akiyuki Nosaka. Nosaka completely based the two main characters directly off of himself and his little sister who really did die of starvation exactly in the way depicted in the movie. Just as in the anime, the novelist deliberately kills off the character representing himself thus symbolizing that he wishes he had died with his little sister in World War II to atone for failing to save her because for many decades after the war, he always blamed himself for not being able to save her from starvation and suffered with the survivor’s guilt all his life. Both the original 1967 semi-autobiographical award-winning masterpiece Grave Of The Fireflies and the equally heart rending 1988 anime film adaptation from Studio Ghibli were dedicated in her honor, in the loving memory of his precious little sister. In the years since the war he had gradually picked up the pieces of his shattered life, continuing to be strong in honor of her memory, going on to make something of himself in ways he could never have imagined, not only just as an extremely successful award winning novelist but even soaring to new heights of newfound success as also a singer, a lyricist and eventually even becoming a highly respected member of The Japanese Parliament during the 1980s after winning election in 1983. Sadly his career would go on hiatus after suffering a massive stroke in 2003. Although deeply affected by the stroke, he would bounce back and continue on as a respected journalist, writing columns for a prominent Japanese newspaper. On December 9, 2015 he would finally pass away, dying at the ripe old age of 85, having achieved more in this life than most people could ever hope to do in a single lifetime and having done it all despite the early childhood trauma that he had been subjected to during The Second World War.

[@fireaza]

6:49 Those are fire bombs. The American military knew Japanese houses are constructed largely of wood and paper, so they used bombs that would intentionally set these buildings on fire. Buildings actually used by the Japanese military were of course, made of metal and concrete. Real dick move there.

[@KimForsberg]

Firebombs, because why waste money on explosives basically. And yes, it was specifically targeting civilians, "to reduce their willingness to continue to support the war". One can always go "both sides" and all that, but people start convincing themselves that war crimes and targeting of civilians is OK "because the other side was bad"...

[@MadeOfMilk]

I'm also pretty sure that collectively the firebombing killed more people then the 2 Abombs

[@Astro2024]

​@KimForsberg the japanese government should have surrendered after the nukes were dropped. Hell, the government still denies their war crimes to southeast Asia to this day

[@skull1161]

@@KimForsberg i dont think anyone is convincing themselves that targetting civilians is ok considering its now a war crime to do what almost all countries were doing during WW2 generally the ones to blame are the ones who designed the weapons, ordered the weapons to be dropped, and actually dropped the weapons, you can apply that logic to any country during WW2, US with the atom bomb, Germany with the V1(basically just long range missiles that flew into Britain civilians thousands of times), Japan with the rape of Nanking, list goes on being devil's advocate here, war is not as bad as it was but it still shouldnt exist at all, with the fact that, war will never stop happening, in mind, lets hope stuff like the geneva conventions are followed

[@nocturnalcove9736]

You have to remember what the Japanese army did to their prisoners. Is it wrong to bomb innocent homes? Yes. But so is torturing your POWs and breaking the Geneva Convention. Both the US and Japanese did terrible things in the war just to win.

[@cat81-ui8oe]

初めてこの映画を観たのは30年以上前でした。今だに世界中で戦争が絶えない事は悲しい事です。この映画を一人でも多くの人に観て欲しいです。ジブリを観て頂きありがとうございます。

[@magomago_e]

Grave of the Fireflies GUTTED me the first time I watched it. I watched it alone and was bawling my eyes out. I needed someone to talk to about it but I didn't have friends who watched anime movies so reaction videos like these are always my go to. I started tearing up just from watching this reaction and it's been years since I watched this movie. The emotions are so raw especially so with the war that is happening right now.

[@mauherkan]

Yeah, seeing other people reacting to a film can really confirm your Emotions also Sometimes get a new perception of something.

[@avyhe5474]

I am a Japanese who has seen this film, and I believe it is our duty to make sure that such a tragic time will never be created again.

[@uffbss]

But it keeps happening all the time….. right now thousands of children are being ethnically cleansed without food water or electricity since early october… but still the world is doing nothing… sadly

[@tokee1234567]

It’s happening in Gaza, right now

[@liudmylab2328]

Its happening in Ukraine for two years already

[@miomiyu9220]

​@uffbss as Japanese, this comment meant to say as Japanese nation we will never repeat this tragedy or be involved in any war. We were taught to be peaceful deeply. It remineds us almost daily basis in our life. At least we are doing it but unfortunately rest of the world isn't following it much. Because some of them are cruel and hungry for power.

[@uffbss]

@@miomiyu9220 yes unfortunately, but Japan as a government is part of the international community and UN Council, so it does have a responsibility,, when there was a vote to ceasefire for Gaza last month, Japan did NOT vote “yes”. Japan was OK for the genocide to continued… when people have a principle to be peaceful after experiencing war with its crimes and its horrors, it would be natural to try to stop others from killing other children and civilians, but japan just ignored. If Japan says “i don’t care let them kill thousands of innocent children and civilians” that means it’s not really standing up for peace. All governments are hypocrites, including Japan who doesn’t want to go against America, all governments only care about money and power. Wars will never end, children and innocent civilians will always be killed somewhere in the world by 10000s every year forever and there’s no “peaceful government/country” cuz they all watch, know and do nothing. That’s the sad truth.

[@mihaelk.myriad]

Knowing that this kind of situation is not exactly a fiction which it really happens/happened irl somewhere in the world makes it more heart wrenching to imagine.

[@skandosh9025]

its happening right now.

[@NettieLottie]

the author of this movie made this movie about his situation so this is based on his real life. the only difference is that he didn't die so seita dying is basically the survivor's quilt he has. he wanted to die but then made this movie as like an apology for his little sister

[@Dashomin]

@@NettieLottieyes and he had two sisters both died

[@mewowow]

it happens and it was based on the author’s personal experience.

[@yui-tg4nm]

What makes this film different from other war films is that it does not portray the enemy in a bad light, but rather tells us that war is such a terrible thing. We Japanese do not resent America, but there are many people who resent the war. I hope for a world without war.

[@ArabianPrincess1998]

I saw this movie when I was 12 and still can’t hold back my tears love from Saudi Arabia ❤️

[@messygrl]

the paralells between this movie and what's happening in gaza right now is breaking my heart beyond repair

[@dy-fathiyana3385]

Free palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸😭

[@KoreGaJiyuuDa]

100% its so depressing to see that nothing really changed in all this time 🙁 but fr free palestine! 🇵🇸 we need to all collectively refuse war outright like it really is never that serious but people are cruel i guess

[@fatikook221]

I swear I feel so depressed 😥😢😣

[@syafhellu6978]

Free free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@leowankenobi6582]

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[@mariemarie3045]

This movie is so impactful, look at what happening in the world right now. So heart breaking

[@nelo-ki4ck]

The catchphrase when this movie was released was "I came to deliver something I forgot." It's a movie that teaches us that there have certainly been things in the past that should not be forgotten in the glittering modern era.

[@MM-TheEnd]

And also never forget that these things continue on into the present.

[@y15k1]

違う。そのキャッチコピーは『となりのトトロ』です。 この映画のキャッチコピーは「4歳と14歳で、生きようと思った」 シンプルだけど力強い言葉。

[@nelo-ki4ck]

@@y15k1 嘘乙

[@sasazushi]

火垂るの墓を選んでくれてありがとう。この動画をきっかけに、たくさんの人が見てくれたらいいな。私の父母や親戚は東京大空襲で家をなくしました。この映画のような体験をして、何年も何年も心に傷を負い苦しんでました。そのせいで戦争のずっとあとに生まれた私も苦しみました。戦争で傷つく人のない世界がきてほしい。

[@illiteratemochi4150]

What I take from this movie is this: The civilians are the ones who suffer most in war. It’s often the innocent, the poor, the less privileged that suffer the most for humanity’s transgressions.

[@timothyfeldhaus297]

I watched this movie in High school for History Class and I really appreciate as an adult my teacher putting me in an uncomfortable situation. This is a movie that everyone needs to watch one time.

[@Fay004]

The fact that this is the life of many in Palestine right now breaks my heart, it’s always the innocent who pay. may god be with them 🙏🏼🇵🇸.

[@Euphoria0717]

Israelis are also palestinians, palestine is the land of jews and arabs, the difference is that palestinians who are not israelis kill palestinians who are israelis just because they are jews (and they kill arabs israelis as well)...palestinians could focus to create their own country instead of focusing on killing israelis people since 1949....but instead of taking care well being of their own they always tend to destroy the neighbors, it's not only Israel that they don't want to exist, they also tried to destroy and ruin Egypt, Lebanon...that's why none of arabian neighbors don't want palestinians on their land...so stop spreading nonsense, learn history first

[@peacefusion]

innocent people choose peace, not war. war people choose violence when there is peace.

[@vladimirramos2010]

Are de sionazis with USA whom are making the war in this moment. The palestine people are defending their land.

[@333menmen]

Thanks for watching. This movie cannot be watched a second time, even by Japanese. It is sad and undoable. It is very hard. There is a scene in the last scene where Seita and Setsuko look down on the present city. I think it might be a message not to repeat such a tragedy. There are many more Ghibli films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, etc., and I look forward to seeing them all ＼(^o^)／.

[@oscaroscuro]

What's devastating about that intro is that you're introduced to some homeless people in the subway station and you're just like "yea, that sucks. Being homeless is bad." But then you later learn that this particular homeless person had a WHOLE story, a WHOLE life, and you're introduced to this person while they're at the lowest point in life that a human being could possibly experience and our first reaction is just "yea, homelessness sucks."

[@tjscreams1795]

This is exactly what came to my mind when I first watched this movie. Everyone in that train station just walked past him as if he didn’t matter or exist, not even knowing how much personality and story is hidden behind his appearance. He was only 14, given the job to look after his 4 year old sister after his parents’ death, so devastating.

[@tonno999]

[SPOILER] When I watched this at a young age, I somehow missed the first part where their deaths were implied. So, you can imagine how incredibly soul crushing and confusing it was when it ended the way it did.. I was an emotional wreck bc I was entirely convinced they were going to make it through. hits harder when there’s hope - + also reccing Wolf Children!

[@DimaQxt]

No way this happened another person than me. This is the exactly same experience as mine. I watched this movie together with my cousin. When that one single line "And she never woke up" came up, I somehow managed to miss it, my cousin started crying a bit, I wondered what's going on and when the burying scene came it broke me as well.

[@beasfoolery]

YESSSS WOLF CHILDREN PLS

[@archienov]

Glad to know I wasn't the only one. I also missed the first part showing Seita dead when I first watched this like 30 something years ago. So seeing them die was traumatic. Then when I had the courage to rewatch it, I saw what I had missed and thought to myself that missing that first part actually made it "better" because the impact at the end was a much more crushing experience.

[@fiveoctaves]

@@DimaQxt I saw this in my late teens and I had no idea they were already dead. I was confused but the scenes where it looked like Seita was watching himslef. I saw it in Japanese without subtitles. My mom watched it with me and occasionally translated the dialogue but she said nothing for the last 20 minutes or so. I didn't know Setsuko was dead until Seita closed the basket and internally I went nuts.

[@KYCS_555]

free palestine 🇵🇸

[@jiggy1992]

いつの時代も犠牲になるのは罪の無い市民や老人、女性、子供達...バカな世界は同じ事を何度も繰り返して学習しない

[@ゆきのせつな]

私は日本人です。戦争は本当に何も良いことがありません。 過去にこのような悲しいことがあれど、私はアメリカが大好きですし、これからも仲良く平和にお互いが支え合える世界になればいいなと思ってます。この映画を見てくれてありがとう。貴方たちが大好きです。

[@sra9842]

War whatever the reason..never ended good, only sadness and hopelessness..hope our world be at peace again.

[@SumaQamana14]

American security forces searching japanese police cars before heading to G7 summit in Hiroshima.

[@ゆきえ-n8k]

We don't need war……それを心に刻む映画です。

[@tsuno9558]

I can't believe you guys chose this as your first Ghibli film. I felt the same determination that this channel had in choosing "attack on titan" as their first anime!　LOL.

[@ScarletTail-minischnauzer888]

As a Japanese, I’m really glad you, guys watched this movie, and discussed about it. My grandpa was a survivor of WW2, but he struggled with a loss of his friends and suffered from the traumatic experience in the rest of his life. The war also tortures the remaining people.

[@Manchesthair]

28:34 "Setsuko never woke up". Time to make appointment with my therapist.

[@Steele-Wool]

Little correction, but this movie was directed by Isao Takahata and he sadly passed away in 2018 🕯️ The man you guys were thinking of is Hayao Miyazaki, who is a legend and juggernaut of animation himself, and a co-founder of Studio Ghibli along with Takahata. While Takahata directed Grave of the Fireflies, Miyazaki directed a movie call My Neighbor Totoro and those movies could not be more on opposite ends of the happiness-sadness spectrum. 😂 It's also very ironic because both films were released on the same day in Japan on April 16, 1988. Oh and also, Ghibli is pronounced as jib-lee 😄 If you ever look into watching any more Ghibli films, I can assure you this is by far the saddest and most challenging to watch 😭 so going forward you won't have to worry as much. 😅 Your reactions were so genuine, I'm so glad you were all able to get through it. It's definitely one you'll always remember. Keep it up, guys!

[@nae.5749]

the minute I saw the notification I was like you guys chose depression. I remember watching this movie like 3 years ago and I never got the courage to watch anything related to it again but now that I watched it with you guys, I cried again. This movie is so sad and it's true like you all discussed, it's literally happening right now and I can't imagine how they are all holding up. My heart is with all of them who are going through it

[@theangelface999]

In This Corner Of The World is a great movie, the ending is bittersweet, but it's got the twinge of a happy ending.

[@sofiadermati8073]

It's one of the few movies that I cannot watch again. I first watched it around twenty years ago and I'm waiting for a few years to watch it with my kids. I believe that it is the most heart breaking and honest movie about war and children. I want to give you all a huge hug, because I know how traumatizing this movie is.

[@mrivera3996]

By all means, this isn't just an animated film. It is a legitimate war film. And more specifically, it is an anti-propaganda war film. Grave of the Fireflies shares the cruel reality of the Japanese side of World War II through the perspective of siblings far too young and ill-equipped to handle such immensely difficult circumstances. Nearly 30 years later, and this is still one of the most heart-breaking films I have ever seen, but also one of the most necessary. It's so important to understand the dehumanization of people through lies and propaganda, especially in times of war, and realizing that those people we consider "enemies" are just regular people like you and me. But the less we see them as faceless others, or even less than human, the easier it is for us to stomach this same horrendous ugliness that continues to this day.

[@jrdmgl6190]

anti-war propaganda film you mean

[@amirellasu3434]

I agree. Kinda sad to see some sugar-coating comments here... We cannot deny the reality of imperialism and war-funding politics...

[@lilorlybear1146]

I remember stumbling upon this movie on tv at a young age one day while I was home from school sick and not knowing anything about it or Ghibli movies in general and... oh man, the emotional trauma this movie gave me so unexpectedly at the age of 12 was a doozy. I had NO CLUE what I was in for while I was laying on the couch watching this. I've only rewatched it one since then as an adult and it still hit me just as hard, maybe a bit harder because I'm older now to understand things that flew over my head as a kid.

[@ぽこまみぃ]

二度は観たくないが、一度は見るべきアニメ映画です。 子供が犠牲になるような事が無くなることを願っています。

[@whiterose5829]

私は英語はほとんど分かりませんが、映画を見終わった後…皆さんの表情やリアクションから、皆さんの気持ちが痛いぐらい分かって思わず、泣き笑いしてしまいました。 本当の戦争で同じように無念な亡くなり方をした子供達がどれだけいるか？死んでも死に切れない思いで子供達を残し、命を奪われた親が、どれだけいるか？ もう２度とこの映画は見たく無い。胸が詰まるほどの悲しい気持ち。でもきっとそれが、戦争に対する答えなのだと思うのです。 戦争絶対反対！！ 命は守り、育て、愛おしむものであるはずですから。

[@abilawaandamari8366]

The fireflies actually being cinders from burning cities is actually insane 😭

[@髭我天]

若い世代のあなたたちが、この映画を見てくれたことを本当に嬉しく思います。 きっと二度とは観たくない映画の1つになってしまったことでしょう。 戦争　 人としてやってはいけないこと 悲しいですが2023年現在も人類はこれをいまだ続けているのです。

[@gigitoto2]

I grew up my grandparents telling me about their experience in Japan during the WWII, they were Seita's age when the war ended. After surviving an air raid in Tokyo my grandmother would go through the destroyed city and flip over each body on the ground to see if any of them was her friend or family. I remember her saying she doesn't know how she could do things like that but back then she was so desensitized and just had to keep going. Thanks for watching this! I have yet to re-watch it ever since I watched it as a teenager but I might watch it with friends who haven't seen the movie yet.

[@hirdeux]

Them trying to hold their tears so hard when i was ugly crying. Guys just cry 😭

[@wadepsilon01]

Setsuko is voiced by Ayano Shiraishi. She was 5 years old when the voice recording was made.

[@katnispeeta]

I watched this film when I was 8 years old and today I am 19 years old and I will never get over this ending of this film, even if years pass, I will continue crying at this ending.😢❤

[@mop8996]

Thanks for taking a look at this piece. This is a work about the tragedies caused by war, not a work that asks who is to blame. This is all I wanted to say. この作品を見てくれてありがとう。 これは戦争によって起こる悲劇を描いたものであり、誰が悪いか？を問うている作品ではありません。 これだけは伝えておきたかったのです。

[@KaoruSan241]

Community, understanding and care are all ways we can avoid similar events happening in future. Dialogue between different cultures and people. It’s great seeing Japanese viewers commenting on this! Good films are so powerful in the way that they bring people together.

[@jedelusional]

I remember suggesting this to you guys the 1st time yall watched your name. Thank you for reacting! Its literally my top anime movie ever and ghibli always has great anime films that are all very special and dear to me :")) the thing i always love about this movie sm is its super realistic, like it could be undoubtedly happening to anyone somewhere esp considering the ongoing wars we have at current times :( and as a breadwinner, it just stabs you straight to the heart differently. Im really out here behind the screen telling yall "its fine. Dont cry" while im ugly sobbing myself :")))

[@cfe-ya5977]

Thank you for watching this movie. I was 5 years old when I watched this for the first time and I still clearly remember how I felt. It is traumatizing but it is also very necessary for Japanese to watch this movie to understand why we must be against a war. As you watch closely, the blinks of fireflies represent bombs in the sky. Seita is still in his purgatory for causing Setsuko's suffer and death. (The first scene Seita looks at himself implies that he is in the loop still and has to keep going through Setsuko's death over and over again.) This movie has a lot more depth to it than how people feel just by watching it. I hope we can create a better world for our future children.

[@bananasaurio]

I come from a non belic country so the whole patriotic feeling about going to war that is always potrayed in American movies has always bebafalled me, but when I saw this movie it made me think I would never ever want to go to war with anyone, and if I was drafted I would rather go to jail than letting my goverment use me to inflict that much pain to innocent people. Like I totally refuse to be a part of that. And then I thought if everyone refused and noone enlisted then goverments would be forced to settle their disagreements in a non violent way. But that is just utopic daydreaming :c

[@doubleasworkshop1692]

Pardon me but what is a non belic country?

[@SantiagoRodriguez-zi3gv]

@@doubleasworkshop1692 a country that hasn't really gone to war. No idea where OP is from but I'm in the same boat as him. Only war we ever had was for independence

[@KoreGaJiyuuDa]

same but i am from the u.s i wish a vast majority of people thought like this instead of having this cult-like level of patriotism and feeling a weird ass false sense of glory from war 😭

[@KoreGaJiyuuDa]

same but i am from the u.s i wish a vast majority of people thought like this instead of having this cult-like level of patriotism and feeling a weird ass false sense of glory from war 😭

[@KG-ln9gq]

これを選んだか…。これは私は一度しか観てない。というか観れない。すごく泣いてしまって観れないんです😭でも、これは作り話ではない、あの頃の日本の真実です。目を背けず観てくれてありがとう。

[@MrGrimm22]

Your first Ghibli film and it HAD TO BE GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES Unlike some comments I've read, I never cried when I first watched Grave of the Fireflies but it indeed left me depressed for the rest of the day.

[@alfonsobiggers2452]

It was my first one. Not just my first Ghibli, but my first proper anime viewing experience. I, for one, regret absolutely nothing about it. This is one of the greatest films ever made.

[@アキコ2003]

​@@alfonsobiggers2452my first ghibli and anime movie was spirited away, I thought it was a dream but years later I discovered it was an actual real movie

[@alfonsobiggers2452]

@@アキコ2003 Spirited Away was my third after Princess Mononoke. It's dream-like quality is it's greatest attribute, and one that extends beyond the visual stimulus of Miyazaki's imagination. Before the first fade in, before the first frame of the film proper graces your eyes, an arpeggiated chord sounds in the black. From the moment Hisaishi's gift touches my ears until the final frame passes from view, I was truly and wholly spirited away...

[@lobsangchoikey1305]

Cried watching the movie just few minutes back and now i am here again crying watching this

[@ozyssah]

bro idk how we got here but im so glad yall watched this. I've seen so many long time anime fans avoid it bc they know more about it so I'm glad yall just jumped into the deep end. i feel like this could be a great movie to show in history class to really teach kids what war is really like, then maybe we would have less warhungry ppl growing up who think its a good thing

[@raymil]

My first watch was 2 years ago, and here is my first rewatch, I swear, this is harder than I expected, knowing what is coming and aware of the context when watching made my heart ached more, I have never ever cried so intensely for a show/movie ever, the more you rewatch, the emotions get more intense

[@Emilia-em5cz]

Please watch more movies from studio Ghibli. Howl moving castle, kiki and others are great

[@taegi186]

Watching this movie again I remember Palestine that it has been struggling with this for years without stopping. it’s so heartbreaking

[@user-jn3kc9is6f]

free palestine 🇵🇸

[@dy-fathiyana3385]

Free palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@meib9412]

Think about how much we cry over this story of 2 children and then imagine how in every war in human history this story is repeated hundreds, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of times... the scale and the burden of human tragedy is impossible to process. The evil of war is unbelievable. No cause could be worth even the loss of these two specific fictional children, let alone a thousand children. We simply can't let war turn lives into statistics.

[@asapsongy3203]

This movie should be seen by everyone. The next time your government or the mainstream media attempts to manufacture your consent for the next pointless war, think about this movie.

[@cat_lover202]

子供の頃に見て以来だったけど、今このタイミングで色々な国の人達と繋がりながら観れる機会を作ってくれて有難う！ 目を背けてはいけない内容だけど多くの日本人のトラウマアニメだよね😅

[@annojance]

I've watched this myself two times, and I've watched two reactions to it. I have cried every time. I don't think there will ever be a time that I can get through this movie, watching it myself or watching others watch it, without feeling gutted. I usually describe it as having the feeling of rocks in my chest. It's such a gut punch. I think someone said that this movie is the best movie they'll never watch again. That's totally understandable. But when you need to know you're alive and can feel, it can really put things into perspective.

[@リッキー-z9o]

ジブリの作品が多くある中、最初にこの作品を選んだことにかなり驚きました。 子供の頃に初めて観ましたが、節子たちの母親が焼かれるシーンは当時心に衝撃を受けました😢 恐らく明日には、私の目は腫れているでしょう😂😭

[@user-jq4qz7zh3d]

この作品と一緒にトトロを同時上映してたの救済処置なのかもしれないけどジブリイかれてる😅 数年前までは毎年テレビで流れてたけど、この情勢下だからこそまた見るべき作品だと思う

[@Shaezilla101]

One of the movies that I cried so much I gave myself a headache. Such a melancholic beauty because it shows a very raw and difficult facet of human experience. There were glimmers of tender love and innocent perspectives laced into the harsh reality of war and it’s aftermath.

[@What-ef8ji]

I’m Japanese and born and raised in Kobe which is the town where two brothers were. In the station he passed away, now it’s the biggest station in town but remained the pole which he lean on. Whenever I walk past the pole always reminds me of them and feels emotional.

[@コココッコ-d4p]

私も神戸に住んでいます。たしか阪急三宮のホームの屋根も当時の物がそのまま使われています。空襲で空いた穴が塞がれた跡が残っていますよ。

[@LexieLyn]

One of the best movies I never want to see, again. It's been 15 years and I still tear up thinking about it.

[@moonshine7682]

thank you for watching this movie. with the timing of everything, war is still happening today in the world. but its always the children that bears the brunt of it.

[@sandijames6409]

I haven't watched Grave of the Fireflies yet, but watching these young men's reactions to what they were seeing gave me hope in the younger generations.

[@lort8334]

This film and films like it are desperately needed, and the necessity for artistic depictions of the horror and immense tragedy of war will never go away. Right now, we are seeing people openly celebrating the murder and destruction of people and their homes. We are seeing people cheer on pointless war and violence for the sake of “revenge.” The death of people who have NOTHING to do with the conflict. People who are just like Seita and Setsuko. Innocent children. But we, the general public, the civilians and citizens, our entire lives, we mean nothing to people in power. We are pawns to them. This could happen again, to ANY of us. And it is happening, right now, to thousands. History has a way of repeating itself.

[@Sei-f9t]

ただただ人類皆ともであり、これ以上の悲しい思いは誰1人としてしない世の中であってほしい。戦争を始めるのは大人そしてたくさんの傷を負うのは子供。

[@LameKitten55]

This movie makes Titanic look like a comedy.

[@yoruwardevil980]

Then maybe you haven't even watch titanic 😂

[@ATt6743]

L

[@Anikeshtripathi7479]

Don't disrespect Titanic with this mid

[@MysteriMustacheToast]

I think when op says comedy, they’re making a comparison between the levels of depression gained from each, not the actual overall quality of the films.

[@YashYadav-uu8vo]

@@Anikeshtripathi7479I mean titanic is mid