NOTHING could have prepared me.. | Grave Of The Fireflies Reaction / Hotaru no Haka Reaction

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  • @Hollyreacts
    @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว +236

    whew. ok. this was a lot. I don't really have much to add onto what I said at the end but it's been almost a week since I watched it and it hasn't left my mind, I don't think I'll ever watch it again but I'm glad I did because I think it made me realize a lot of things: the forgotten people and children during the war, how this story is literally a snippet of history and that this has happened, does happen, and in future will happen in war-torn countries/areas.
    :') Setsuko will be in my heart forever, and I think the late Akiyuki Nosaka turned his grief into something really special, albeit it heartbreaking.
    I'm sorry for the silence during this, copyright kept blocking it off to the world so I had to edit it 5 separate times. There is no timer on patreon, but you can watch the full opacity & audio version over there tier 2+
    www.patreon.com/hollyreacts 💚

    • @joemama1132
      @joemama1132 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It's sad how the author wrote himself to have died as well, its literally him saying "I should have died too"

    • @TC-by3il
      @TC-by3il ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Without a doubt one of the saddest movies I've ever watched, but I do revisit it from time to time. Thanks for the reaction.

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@TC-by3il 🥺do you find your feelings change, or you notice more things during a rewatch? I just don't know if I could bring myself to sit through it again 🤣thanks for watching! my pleasure :)

    • @TC-by3il
      @TC-by3il ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Hollyreacts Hard to say. I think the first time I watched it I was in my teens and I'm 35 now. I've definitely picked up on a few things since, but emotionally it hits pretty much as hard as it did that first time. I've shown it to a lot of people because I think it's an important film, but watching it with my mom was probably he hardest one. It took me a few years to rewatch after that so I get it ha.

    • @roxannebryan7456
      @roxannebryan7456 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please watch and react to the anime Leafie, hen in the wild. Thank you

  • @Kalendil
    @Kalendil ปีที่แล้ว +125

    In 2010 I went to Japan with my best friend. We were 27 years old. We were going to visit Ghibli Studio so before the journey I watched all of the Ghibli Movie as a marathon. I had already saw most of them but I wanted to re watched them. When I started watching this one.... well.... everything changed. Through the whole movie I was "now things are going to get better" but... it never did and then the little girl died... I just couldn't believe it... I had to pause because I was crying so hard... eventually I finished the movie and it leave me with a weird feeling through an entire week. Its a movie that I think everyone have to see it at least once to understand the horrors of the war and it real victims.

  • @SimonsBand1
    @SimonsBand1 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    Isao Takahata never gets the credit he deserves, everybody talks about Hayao, but Isao was as genius in his own way and this movie is his true legacy.

    • @deenadallas2802
      @deenadallas2802 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      He really deserved it. Plus, "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya" was the perfect final project that he did. I'm so grateful that he existed and will forever be heartbroken that he passed away. He deserves as much credit and respect that Hayao Miyazaki gets.

    • @lalboimanlun1230
      @lalboimanlun1230 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      RIP.... I really like all his movies.

  • @jordangroff8978
    @jordangroff8978 ปีที่แล้ว +546

    The saddest thing about this movie isn't the film itself, but the fact that it's a true story. The author of "Grave of the Fireflies", Akiyuki Nosaka, published this story in 1967, which was written as an apology to his younger sister Keiko who died from malnutrition during WW2 after the bombing of Kobe in 1945. Nosaka blamed himself for her death even up until the day he died on December 9, 2015.

    • @CarolineForest
      @CarolineForest ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Yes... she looked it up at the end of the video and she talked about it.

    • @fiveoctaves
      @fiveoctaves ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We even got to see her react to learning about it.

    • @hued2542
      @hued2542 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No one ever touches on this was more of a be ungrateful and you will perish message, according to the director

    • @sonny9054
      @sonny9054 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Nosaka was an absolute jerk at times, but for those who followed his work know that he had always been suffering from the trauma that was the death of his sister. My father’s younger brother died from malnutrition and pneumonia during the Tokyo Air Raid, in a situation that resembles this film. But I do want to emphasize that it wasn’t just the pure guilt of Nosaka that motivated him to write this. This happened everywhere and an intelligent person like Nosaka would have known this very well. His work is a representation of how the vulnerable civilians suffered during this period. Never let this happen again. That is the message this film wants to project. Sorry for my broken English.

    • @Janksta
      @Janksta 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      j

  • @mr.squanch
    @mr.squanch ปีที่แล้ว +239

    Watching Setsuko slow starving to death, mostly alone, in a cave like shelter in the woods is the sadest i ever watched in a movie. Espacially the last scene just before her death,
    a 4 year old who uses her last energies to offer her brother rice and take care of his well-being, broke my heart and made me cry.
    Setsuko is probably the cutest girl I've ever seen in a movie. Rest in Peace, little angel.....😞😞

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I'm still not over watching it if I'm honest. 🥺 I'm glad I reacted to it. It's a terrible film in the best way. ❤️

    • @junk6998
      @junk6998 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      あのシーンは何度見ても張り裂けます

    • @nCode1
      @nCode1 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      People often miss this but the saddest part for me is when Seita was brought into the police station. She has been alone the whole day, starving just waiting for her bro to return and she saw him got caught and who knows what was going through her mind. Her bro might never return or released. She followed them secretly up to the station but she didn't dare to come in and see what's going on. She waited in the dark for hours without knowing what's going on until Seita got released. When she finally saw him, instead of being a crybaby, she consoled him because she saw he was badly hurt and sad. That scene broke me like nothing to this day

    • @エリザベス桂-x5y
      @エリザベス桂-x5y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nCode1
      同感です。
      節子の病院帰りに兄に「ご飯なんていらない、どこも行かないで、一緒にいてほしい」と懇願していました。
      節子は暗い洞窟で1人4歳の子供はただただ寂しかったのです。

  • @XeonAlpha
    @XeonAlpha ปีที่แล้ว +200

    6:50 most Japanese homes at that time were built out of wood and paper and the Allies knew this. They dropped wave after wave of flaming canisters on Japanese cities after gaining air superiority late in the War to set alight the tightly packed wooden homes.
    The results were often catastrophic and horrifying. What we see of Seita & Setsuko’s mother was tragically common.
    One thing I love of this movie is that it never tries to frame someone directly as a villain (even if some feel like it)… Instead it’s just makes it horrifically clear that war really has no winners…

    • @ПчиьосидСиблгсрла
      @ПчиьосидСиблгсрла ปีที่แล้ว

      By "Allies" you mean Americans?

    • @MissFluffyPink
      @MissFluffyPink 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ПчиьосидСиблгсрла I think they are refering to "The Allied Forces" which refers to the coyntries that stood against Germany (and Germanys allies like Japan)
      So yes it does refer to USA but it also included Great Britain, The Soviet Union and China. Several more countries were part of the Allied Powers but those countries were "the big 4".

    • @justjohnny420
      @justjohnny420 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ПчиьосидСиблгсрла USA was one of the countries in the Allied forces, just like Japan, Germany and Italy were Axis

    • @ПчиьосидСиблгсрла
      @ПчиьосидСиблгсрла 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@justjohnny420 Well, oc i know about "the big four" but its kinda wrong to tell that the rest of allies are responsable for a disaster in Japan, what do you think?

    • @ShaunYCheng
      @ShaunYCheng 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ПчиьосидСиблгсрла agreed. USA was the sole actor of the fire bombings. They were aiming for civilians.

  • @sorartificial
    @sorartificial ปีที่แล้ว +103

    That scene where the young girls are like nothing has changed while the main character is burning his own little sister just shows you how rich people are completely disconnected of the worlds issues.

    • @stevenfrost3469
      @stevenfrost3469 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      That's not exactly what that is. They just returned home after being evacuated. Its likely that they were desensitized by all the death that happened during the bombings and fire bombings. In a way similar to seita was to the bodies on the beach.

    • @hannahlou3406
      @hannahlou3406 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@stevenfrost3469 only the rich could evacuate like that.

    • @あみあみ-z6l
      @あみあみ-z6l 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​​@@hannahlou3406国の政策として、多くの子供たちは学童疎開をさせられていました。
      貧富の差によるものではありません。

  • @LionQueen106
    @LionQueen106 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    This was the second Studio Ghibli film I saw, it made me cry like a baby, but I love the story so much that I often rewatch it.

  • @BrendanBestJ
    @BrendanBestJ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    As someone who grew up homeless with his sister and then she died back in 2018, this movie hit me about as hard as a movie can hit

  • @ikkyu-san3436
    @ikkyu-san3436 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    日本の不朽の名作映画を取り上げてくださって、ありがとうございます。あなたの考察の深さと、優しい気持ちに感謝します。
    あの意地悪に見える叔母さんも、戦争というとても厳しい状況下で、子供達に対して考えがあってやっていることがあると思います。
    この映画を取り上げてくださったあなたに、再度感謝します。東京のあなたの友達より🤝

  • @FUTABA-kg
    @FUTABA-kg ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Thank you for sitting through this one. There are tons of heart-wrenching war anime movies here in Japan but I think this is one of the toughest. I've only watched a part of this once in my childhood, but it was not a comfortable experience (of course), and I avoid watching it since then, so I think I can understand your pain.
    Please take care of yourself. It was definitely a hard thing to do. I believe no one should suffer from the trauma of war, even through fictional stories. But as a Japanese, I wanted to appreciate the fact you've chosen this movie. And I want to say thank you for the amazing content, as always.

  • @maeda__
    @maeda__ ปีที่แล้ว +106

    This movie reminds me of my visit to the Hiroshima Atom Bomb museum where I saw a school uniform belonging to a young boy that had been ripped and burnt due to the atom bomb blast.
    The sight of it was eerie and made me feel deeply sad, causing me want to vomit and cry. Rest in peace to that young boy, and I sincerely hope that no more children ever have to experience such a tragic event again 💔💔💔

  • @dannielmarcelino
    @dannielmarcelino 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    As the older brother that had to help to take care of my younger brother most of his life, everytime i watch or listen to the intro i get goosebumps and i start crying like a kid

    • @ShaunYCheng
      @ShaunYCheng 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      me too man.

  • @astrafaan
    @astrafaan ปีที่แล้ว +14

    From the moment that tin hits the ground and the fireflies come out I'm teared up - a beautiful and sad film everyone should see.

  • @davy209
    @davy209 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I would say that “Grave of the Fireflies” definitely had an impact on my life when I first watched it back in 2005, pretty much, during the height of pro-war propaganda in Iraq, which was the only thing mainstream cable news outlets would constantly talk about. Watching “Grave of the Fireflies” was a realization that what happened in Japan, back during WWII, is currently happening again to children in Iraq. It helped me overcome all of the pro-war propaganda garbage being spooned fed to me by news outlets and made me very anti-war all throughout my life! This film is a masterpiece and it should be considered as required viewing for all middle and high school students!

  • @ayumis5452
    @ayumis5452 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    it’s so heart-wrenching to learn that this story was written by Akiyuki Nosaka, who lost his little sister due to starvation caused by the war. So basically the author is Seita who survived. He blamed himself for being alive while his whole family was gone

    • @28naveenator27van
      @28naveenator27van ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Seita dies at the beginning of the film of starvation . Both of them as ghosts watch kobe develop over the next century. Very sad fate😢.

  • @butataRS
    @butataRS ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This is the kind of movie where you really need to talk to someone about it, it is too hard to take it in all by yourself. So thank you and all the other videos as yours, its therapeutic.

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I agree sooo much. I managed to chat to a few folks after I watched it which helped me get my thoughts out. thank you so much for watching

    • @Ansonius77
      @Ansonius77 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I watched by myself my one and only time.....I wanted to cry, but my body wouldn't let me because of the shock of what I had seen

  • @mihayoko3845
    @mihayoko3845 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    今世界が見るべきアニメだと思います

  • @vagarifiansyah2992
    @vagarifiansyah2992 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    There is some crazy theory about this movie. One says that because of the guilt, Seita and Setsuko's soul was still wandering around, repeating and reliving the same thing over and over and over again, seeing themselves struggling to live over and over again, that's why in the end of the movie you see Seita and Setsuko look at the modern japan with all the building and stuff. They see their story repeat itself for infinite amount of times...

    • @MIZZKIE
      @MIZZKIE ปีที่แล้ว +15

      In Japan, it is believed than when a person dies, his/her soul goes to either of these three places:
      1. Heaven
      2. Hell
      3. If a person had a very powerful negative emotion like resentment, grudge, devastation, or regret that did not get resolved by the time of their death, their soul does not go to neither Heaven or Hell, and they become ghosts trapped on this Earth, forever wandering unless somehow that emotion is resolved or they are healed by a monk's prayer. They are called "bourei" (亡霊).
      I'm sure you can guess which one Seita and Setsuko are.

  • @ryasolalagenio7329
    @ryasolalagenio7329 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is the most genuine reaction i ever watched. Knowing that it is based on the true story. I am still breaking every time this movie appears to my news feed or in my for you page. I can’t stand the pain and hardship they went through.

  • @あお-s8j9k
    @あお-s8j9k ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I as a Japanese am so grateful that you watched this movie.

    • @techjunkie1815
      @techjunkie1815 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe you should go protest the disgusting American scum who have the nerve to hold their G7 meetings at the site of the nuke they dropped…

    • @KinthBuan
      @KinthBuan ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This movie is the most heartbreaking I watch ever

  • @LOVE-qh7ib
    @LOVE-qh7ib 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    観てくれてありがとう。
    NO WAR.

  • @ホームページ制作と活用の池田
    @ホームページ制作と活用の池田 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Hello. By chance, your video work appeared in "Recommended", so I watched it. This story brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it.
    Japan lost the war and surrendered on August 15, 1945. Before its surrender, Japanese cities were heavily bombed. Therefore, there were many people in the same situation as "Hotaru no Haka:Grave of Fireflies". I know someone like that, and I've heard many similar stories.
    Overcoming such a miserable era, there is now. This story is made with the hope that we should never forget those who suffered damage in these tragic times. Japan is now overcoming this grief and forgetting the past and the people who helped restore it.
    "And now, strange things are happening around the world." Something similar may be happening in Japan.
    Even so, I believe that the people of that country must cherish the things that happened in their own country and the culture that has been passed down through the years. Important things are the same in every country. Therefore, even if the country and language are different, I think we can understand each other.
    When I saw "Grave of the Fireflies" and saw you express your feelings honestly, I was very impressed. I'm Japanese and I can't speak English, but I can understand what you're saying.
    This story is very sad, but the necessary things happened at that time. I think the important thing is not to repeat yourself. That's what this movie was made for.
    It was nice to meet a very good video work. thank you.

  • @imaniscott8535
    @imaniscott8535 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I saw this movie, maybe about 8 years ago or so? I heard about how sad it was but my ego got in the way and hardened me before I watched it.
    The fact she slowly died, and then died just as he finally got some food, was just so tragic. And I keep coming back to, this is on our hands as a nation, as a citizen of the Us, I may not have been alive when these events happened but it’s my country that did it all the same.
    And the haunting thought that the US is still doing it…
    Fuck war man.

  • @aryblack
    @aryblack ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I watched this movie with my now ex. I managed not to cry until the end of the movie, but when the credits appeared I broke down, noticing my partner was also sobbing. Also we're both on the spectrum and he took a liking to the song, so sometimes he would hum it while working (not on purpose, sometimes not even noticing I was around), and I would just burst into tears randomly for longer than a week. As you said, this movie is something that probably we all need to see. But only the one time. I tried not to pay too much attention to what was going on in the movie, just to what you said, and I'm glad most of the sound is muted, because I still cried while watching this with you.

  • @sleepfishl
    @sleepfishl ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You watch the movie ... you cry in the end ...
    You show the movie to friends to see them cry ... you ball your eyes out right in the beginning ...
    This movie is an absolute Masterpiece.

  • @dama9005
    @dama9005 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I don't want to see this movie ever again…
    A movie worth seeing once
    Thank you!

    • @MIZZKIE
      @MIZZKIE ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I didn't know that I needed little Jean-bo eating his om-om so much in my life until now.
      Thank you for healing my depression after watching this video. (your current icon)

  • @fiveoctaves
    @fiveoctaves ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Thank you for your reaction, and good for you for recognizing that the aunt's behavior is not unreasonable. There are two live-action "Grave of the Fireflies" movies. The TV version is told from the perspective of the aunt's family. There isn't enough food to feed everyone in the house so she prioritizes her immediate family first. She also feeds her children before herself and thus starves. She hates giving food to children that are not hers when her own children are going hungry and she is starving.

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I truly believe it's so so complex and a lot of people seem to only scratch the surface with her. I try understand every characters reasons for behaving a certain way and I think being in a war torn environment would make anyone behave in a more hostile way - there is no right or wrong but sometimes you have to choose what is best for your own situation and I think in that situation she did what she felt was right :( Even though it's sad to us viewers, you really have to try get inside their heads a bit. Thanks for commenting 💚

  • @abiranime
    @abiranime 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There’s a scene right after the infamous ' She never woke up ' moment, where you see the food Seita cooked for his sister is being washed away by rain.
    That exact scene broke me too. Because it wasn’t just his sister who needed food, Seita needed them too. However, he lost the feeling of hunger and was flooded with emotions like guilt, sadness and helplessness. Because of that, he also died in the end.
    It makes me sad because most of the reaction videos cut that exact frame, and I will never understand why.

  • @MatheusMPL
    @MatheusMPL 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    4:23 5min mark and she's already crying, I think to myself "ohhh boy, she's gonna suffer with this one 😬" haha we all do, inevitably... this movie is just soul crushing

  • @akikohorie4764
    @akikohorie4764 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This movie is a masterpiece that you will never be able to see again once you have seen it.

  • @karo83214
    @karo83214 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’m Japanese and I love that you watched this with original language and listened/felt their emotions and nuance. They speak with Kansai dialect that has a really frank tone but their language is also very elegant because they used to be rich and the voice actors really got into their character. You are such a sweet person with empathy and imagination! Thank you for this.

  • @Happy_Potato0
    @Happy_Potato0 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    It hits so hard when you realise this is still happening in war ridden countries with children.. 😭😭😭😭

  • @q9_3rj-imxN
    @q9_3rj-imxN 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So one year later, I'm here.
    Hi.
    This anime is based on a short biographical story that the Director, Takahata, from Ghibli (pronounced as Jibuli) directed and they were shown back to back with "My neibour Totoro" in the theatre back then. Hayao Miyazaki had always picked up social problems and embeded in his work. In this sense, this movie surely belongs to the work of Ghibli.
    I remember I got out of the threatre with my emotions totally messed up lol
    My grandma had an older brother who lost his life in the navy, so she tried so many times watching this anime on TV with me; used to be on-aired around 14th or 15th August every year wishing world peace. But I remember she always lost it by 10 or 20 mins in, and was crying her eyes out incosolablly.
    Apparently, her brother was eight years older than her and used to be so kind and protective of her.
    My grandma was one hell of a great story teller. I used to love to be absorbed in the world of her rich stories.
    I'm dead against the war. It is the fight everyone lose something and we will never be able to take it back. People who suffer the most are the weak ones in the society like Seita(14) and Setsuko(4).
    My grandma said there were quite many orphans or kids who were employed for harsh labour.
    She also said she was surprised that her dad one day picked up two of them off the street, and make them my grandma's sister and brother suddenly. Unfortunately, one of them passed away when they were young due to leukimia.

  • @oniwanoyamaguchi
    @oniwanoyamaguchi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    私が初めてこの映画を観たのは14才の時でした。そして妹が4才。
    この物語と同じ年齢だった事もあり凄まじい衝撃を受けました。
    以来主人公の兄の様にしっかりとした兄にならねばと強く思いました。
    平和の大切さ、家族の尊さを常に心に持って生きていこうと思ってます。
    この物語をただ悲しい、辛いと避けるより人間として学ぶ事が詰まっていると捉え受け継いで行く事が大事ではないかと考えます。
    良い動画をありがとうございます。

  • @Teecityafro
    @Teecityafro 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember just randomly putting this movie on while cooking for my little brother, one of the saddest stories man I always tear up

  • @ultracuteful
    @ultracuteful ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You are such a dear, I really felt your emotions and that's so nice, to see empathy. That's so sweet, thank you for showing genuine emotions and to connect with people all over the world.

  • @Texy88
    @Texy88 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    3:29 - I noticed that you made a positive comment about the quality of the animation. If you were impressed by *that,* then you would be absolutely blown away by the visual quality of the animation in _Akira,_ which came out the very same year as _Grave of the Fireflies:_ 1988!

  • @herodaresfire4512
    @herodaresfire4512 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    After crying through most of this movie, I just sat and stared for a while.

  • @sachimiku4749
    @sachimiku4749 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for watching.There should be no war.There is a limit to what children can survive on their own.Not only Japan, but also Russia attacked Ukraine today, and many ordinary people died and lost their homes.Japan knows the horror of the atomic bomb.I hope that people around the world will see this and think about war, even if just a little.

  • @RelaxwithJC
    @RelaxwithJC ปีที่แล้ว +157

    You were WAY more understanding of the Aunt than we were. We kinda blamed the aunt for everything. I think we were just angry at the time.

    • @sylvesterwarbringer8397
      @sylvesterwarbringer8397 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      She cries easily so I wanted her to see this movie.. she cried at the very 1st min lol
      Anyways I saw your reaction too.. Casie is same like her.. i remember her crying out loud and making loud noises lol..

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I feel called out 🤣❤️

    • @richard-17
      @richard-17 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lo que si fue cruel fue decirle a setsuko del fallecimiento de su madre

  • @drago2drago
    @drago2drago ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I think cinema therapy said it best, "this is one of the best movies that I will never watch again"

  • @alangurung4795
    @alangurung4795 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This the best war movies you'll never want to see again

  • @MIZZKIE
    @MIZZKIE ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I am so so so so SO glad that you didn't trash the "mean" aunt.
    Although her wording is too harsh, what she's saying is not wrong.
    And I am surprised you realised that 7000yen is super-high for that time. Majority of people - even Japanese audiences - don't pick up on it because they're too focused on the wholesome siblings.
    If you knew how life was back in this time period in Japan, you can tell that Seita's family used to be rich by the foods that Setsuko mentioned when asked by her brother what she would like to eat.

  • @Mcity-tp9gj
    @Mcity-tp9gj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Sad reality this is happening as we speak in places like Gaza. Children are dying of starvation and violence. This move is real and peace needs to prevail for the sake of humanity. 😢

  • @sarahthomson878
    @sarahthomson878 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I cried watching this film for the first time, too. And for some reason I keep watching people react to it and end up crying all over again. If there wasn't the problem of parents possibly getting angry at teachers for making their kids upset/traumatizing them, I'd think this movie should be shown in history classes when discussing world war 2 or wars in general.

  • @Xantheus07
    @Xantheus07 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The sad part is knowing its a true story and the author lived through survivors guilt. He blamed himself for his sisters death so much he wrote himself as dying in the story cause im sure he wished he had died with her IRL.

  • @GojiKaichou
    @GojiKaichou 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The firebombs dropped over Japan and Germany during WWII were free-falling canister types filled with a jellied gasoline, sort of like primitive napalm. They didn't explode when they hit, but the strategy was to flood the sky with them, and whatever they hit would light. Osaka, Kobe and Tokyo were all firebombed close to the end of WWII.

  • @nlgarmdevil4411
    @nlgarmdevil4411 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    "why are you watching cartoons? cartoons are for kids!" - People who havent seen Grave of the Fire Flies, Silent Voice or Watership Down

    • @nicoleputnam7778
      @nicoleputnam7778 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Elfen lied, the promised neverland…

    • @sonofmoss
      @sonofmoss ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Plague Dogs

    • @djancok90
      @djancok90 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nicoleputnam7778 Blood C, Corpse Party.

    • @nicoleputnam7778
      @nicoleputnam7778 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@djancok90 nah.

    • @deathmetal271
      @deathmetal271 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rock & Rule

  • @dynamiteskye9007
    @dynamiteskye9007 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This movie was the single most devastating watch I've ever experienced. But i think everyone should see it once. The civilian cost of war...

  • @andrewtennenbaum2263
    @andrewtennenbaum2263 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That moment after they left aunt’s house, when he makes a feast out of the last of the rice, it hit me that this movie was about to get really dark. I had to pause it for a few minutes to prepare myself

  • @kaitokaito8695
    @kaitokaito8695 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The best movie you never want to see again

  • @kaox44
    @kaox44 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When you waited and you struggle to survive, survive, survive each day hoping for a better tomorrow....but it never came.

  • @りな-j7e7d
    @りな-j7e7d 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    最初の投げ捨てられたドロップ缶には節子の小さな骨が…胸が苦しくなりますね。

  • @TheTaarg
    @TheTaarg 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You will never have to watch it again because you will never forget it 😢

  • @LeonDractus
    @LeonDractus ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Amazing film, beautiful in every sense of the word, I don’t plan on ever watching it again.

  • @sniper712
    @sniper712 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    life can be so cruel man, and it's ok that this movie hit you super hard in the feels holly.
    this one had a reverse effect on me, but i guess i'm just an oddball.... and sees certain things differently.
    one thing i know for sure, is that children are almost always the ones that seems to get the short end of the stick in these... and most times they're not developed enough to just push through. it's such a sad issue that probably still lingers throughout many places even now.
    sending hugs and good vibes, you gone through a lot with this reaction vid. we most appreciate it as always

  • @ktcworks
    @ktcworks 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Not only the sad story but seeing a view looking up the petrol bomb falling toward oneself is just frightening.
    This must be the very first movie to actually show that kind of bomb and how it fired up the houses...

  • @monsteralfie
    @monsteralfie 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    sis is barely into the movie and already tearing up, so real tbh

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fr I never stood a chance LOL ❤️

  • @vagarifiansyah2992
    @vagarifiansyah2992 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This movie is the kind of movie that so amazing that you wish you wouldn't need to watch it again...

  • @llspragulus
    @llspragulus ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ok! I agree this is sad. HOWEVER!! You need to find the uneditted un-Disney-fied version from 1988. I'd like to see a comparative reaction video. There is SO much that got cut out and Seita lives in this version. In the original, Seita lay dying in the train station and the entire movie is essentially a flashback of his life. At the end, a janitor is walking by, basically collecting all the abandoned and dead children, looks at Seita and says, "He's not too far, I can see it in his eyes." Seita is laying there grasping the candy tin with his last breath and inside the tin are a few small bones of his sister. The camera pans out and Seita is in his uniform and greeted by Setsuko running to him in the grass. They hold hands and walk off into infinity. You then see the candy tin hit the floor. The janitor collects the tin and Seito and I don't remember much else through all the tears. I was Seito's age when I watched it in the theater back in the 80's in Yokohama.

  • @jessican5344
    @jessican5344 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    he does go on to live. this whole thing is one giant apology letter to her. I think I remember reading he dies somewhere (a train station?) later on. this is one of those you watch it once and then never again.

  • @miraveta
    @miraveta ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just thinking about this movie makes me dehydrated from the tears

  • @mdmuhidulhoque
    @mdmuhidulhoque ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My all time best last animation is Grave of the fireflies". and for this girl i am so very emotion and i cry look like this two children is my children and after i like japan country after seen this animation.

  • @miicat555
    @miicat555 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    War leaves nothing but sorrow
    I pray that there will be no more wars in the world.
    Thank you for watching the Japanese anime "Grave of the Fireflies".

  • @donono6287
    @donono6287 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love our family while they are still alive. and say no to war

  • @McCarthyism_by_Youtube
    @McCarthyism_by_Youtube 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    nothing like a panic nap after getting your soul crushed. they help the mind process events more reasonably

  • @nadaabdalem426
    @nadaabdalem426 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    it's like gaza💔💔

  • @itnteasy
    @itnteasy ปีที่แล้ว +15

    thats such a strong movie

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it's intense :( thank you for watching 💚💚

  • @T_tintin
    @T_tintin ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have yet to find a person who didn't cry watching this movie

  • @ラモス瑠偉13世
    @ラモス瑠偉13世 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    世界が平和でありますように
    私も、世界の人も、自分が知らない文化も尊重しないといけませんね
    友達になるには、最初に自分が受け入れるべきですね
    映画を見てくれてありがとう、日本から

  • @はひはほ
    @はひはほ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    見て頂きありがとうございます。
    今でも戦争をしている国はありますが良い事は何もありません。平和が1番です。

  • @iamthesololeveler6853
    @iamthesololeveler6853 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was 10 when i watched this. And i never want to watch it again. I still cried reacting to people reaction because it was the saddest movie i have ever ever watched in my life

  • @DigitalDNA
    @DigitalDNA ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is one of those movies that you only watch once, acknowledge its existence, and never watch it again.

    • @marszenka
      @marszenka 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Somehow I have seen it three times, spread out over 20 years - watching it with other people who haven’t seen it before. It is not a fun time. But it is important.

  • @RetroRanter
    @RetroRanter ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oh god...I have NEVER been able to recover from this movie, this one is so hard to find it's always tucked away like some terrible secret, butbirs one kf their best, sure it not awesome and magical but damn..heart wrenching.

  • @centerwek
    @centerwek ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He was living for his sister,
    Shes dead so no point living
    Man its a heart wrenching movie

  • @にゃんちゅう-f3h
    @にゃんちゅう-f3h ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I am Japanese.
    Thank you for watching this movie.
    We learned the meaninglessness of war through this anime. How meaningless strife and greed are.

  • @JoJoFan87
    @JoJoFan87 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I cried along with you... Kids should never have to suffer but with war they are always the first to suffer. I hate and love this movie, it's a good movie to see the first time but not multiple times. Granted I loved it enough that I plan to buy it on Bluray.

  • @ជួងសុវណ្ណគីរីរាជ្យ

    You say he tried to distract her not entirely right at the same time he hurt he cried inside but he tried to not to cry out He don’t want his sister to see him cry by doing this swing around

  • @gamerhalim4717
    @gamerhalim4717 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This movie teach us become humanity.

  • @zeroone6282
    @zeroone6282 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    この映画は戦争を二度と起きないよう作られた映画です。

  • @wpl8275
    @wpl8275 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Not many people know this about Yoko Ono but she survived the fire bombing of Tokyo as a 12 year old. Her family made it to a shelter and survived. Her father was a prisoner during the war years so he wasn't with them. "Ono was enrolled in Keimei Gakuen, an exclusive Christian primary school run by the Mitsui family. She remained in Tokyo throughout World War II and the fire-bombing of March 9, 1945, during which she was sheltered with other family members in a special bunker in Tokyo's Azabu district, away from the heavy bombing. Ono later went to the Karuizawa mountain resort with members of her family....Starvation was rampant in the destruction that followed the Tokyo bombings; the Ono family was forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings in a wheelbarrow. Ono said it was during this period in her life that she developed her "aggressive" attitude and understanding of "outsider" status."

  • @InfamousGFox
    @InfamousGFox ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back in the early 90's I watched this movie. Never again, once is all I need.

  • @GregorioGrasselli1972
    @GregorioGrasselli1972 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As far as I remember, Setsuko in her last scene says that she made rice balls out of earth and that she ate them.

  • @jonathan083
    @jonathan083 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can only watch this movie one time.

  • @nelo-ki4ck
    @nelo-ki4ck ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is not life that is lost by war. It's an innocent soul.

  • @XhenisaVata
    @XhenisaVata 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I cried for a whole week every time i hear their theme it gets me !

  • @dt200rz
    @dt200rz ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of the comments in the video said, "Why does the fire spin so fast?"
    I've seen "Grave of the Fireflies" in other videos and said the same thing.
    Don't you know "incendiary"? One of the inhumane weapons,
    It's a prohibited weapon, just like a nuclear bomb.
    One of the weapons for Japan, like the hydrogen bomb.

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In the UK when I was at school etc we didn't really learn about any of that, also I don't watch war films/shows so I'm unfamiliar with the weaponry etc!

  • @itnteasy
    @itnteasy ปีที่แล้ว +10

    thank you holly

  • @muuphoenix
    @muuphoenix ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As I first clicked on to your video, the first thing I thought was 'I hope that make up is waterproof'. I couldn't stop sobbing for half an hour when I watched it.

    • @Hollyreacts
      @Hollyreacts  ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh my gosh 🤣 funnily enough I don't wear waterproof makeup cause it's a nightmare to get off which in this scenario would've been perfect 🤣❤️ hope you are OK too after watching my reaction, I have see others reactions and it makes me tear up. 🤣

  • @lakshayrsg2414
    @lakshayrsg2414 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is a depression ride.
    You nay spend 2-3 days after watching it thinking about it again and again.

  • @sebastijanglozinic8630
    @sebastijanglozinic8630 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Their father was an officer on the heavy cruiser IJN Maya.
    Seito and Setsuko do not know it yet, but their father is dead. The Maya was sunk during the battle of Leyte Gulf.

  • @takutubepalms
    @takutubepalms 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    After watching the whole thing, I recommend watching the first 5 minutes again.

    • @KENTAFURUYAMA
      @KENTAFURUYAMA 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ( ノД`)シクシク…

  • @raditwu2862
    @raditwu2862 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Jujur sesudah nonton film ini, saya tidak mau nonton lagi. benar2 membuat saya menangis parah.

  • @klaatubaradanikuto7195
    @klaatubaradanikuto7195 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This story is based on the real experience of the original author. It is the story of the younger sister of the original author, Akiyuki Nosaka.
    His sister starves to death during the war as well, although it's not exactly the same as the anime.
    Chinese and Koreans who have seen this film say that Japan is glorifying the war and trying to hide its own wrongdoings. They are a people who have been brainwashed by anti-Japaneseism that always writes such things, so please do not deal with them.
    What is pictured here is an ordinary citizen of Japan. It simply depicts the grief of unwar-related civilians who suffer from government-initiated wars. It should be the same in any country.
    However, whenever this movie appears on TH-cam, Chinese and Koreans always criticize it as a deception of Japanese militarism.
    They don't try to understand the true sorrow of war, they just try to demean Japan.
    I can still understand the criticism of the Chinese, but I do not understand why the Koreans continue to criticize Japan. Japan and South Korea are generally not at war.
    There was a period of rule by Japan for legitimate development of Korea. The South Korean government has labeled it an invasion, brainwashed the people, and is still holding a grudge against it and criticizing it persistently. Without this governance, there would be no development of Korea today.
    Even though they have nothing to do with World War II, they still act like war victims and accuse Japan of being an aggressor. I don't understand. stupid people. When Koreans go out into the world, they only speak ill of Japan. Japanese people are in a lot of trouble.
    To the people of the world,
    Please don't believe what they say. Everything they say is a fabricated history that suits the Korean government. Sadly, the Korean public believes that bullshit history to be true.

    • @MIZZKIE
      @MIZZKIE ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for telling the ugly truth about our "lovely" neighbours.
      Most of us Japanese are way too kind/polite/humble for our own good, and they use that to their advantage and political gains. Because Japanese don't speak ill of other nations even when being bullied, unfortunately many Western people buy into these lies and start labeling us "xenophobic" or "evil".
      Their governments are the definition of "malicious".
      I/we will never forget "Congratulations for the tsunami".
      (Sorry for the negative comment. I just wanted to chime in so that people not living in Asia will not think that klaatu is making this story up.)

  • @bryantan492
    @bryantan492 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This movie was a masterpiece, I'm never watching that movie again as long as I'm alive.

  • @flurryisland6882
    @flurryisland6882 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's so funny! I also have two older brothers. One is 5 years older and one is 10 years older. We are all very close and i thought this movie would destroy me. Me and my oldest brother actually watched it together and we didn't cry😮 after we went to the store and got the same fruit candy as in the movie.

  • @neo4505
    @neo4505 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the best annimation movie that I never wanted to watch again

  • @MrAGNTJ
    @MrAGNTJ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Holly: "im fine, im fine"
    me: "youre not fine"
    now about the aunt, i know its hard to believe but there are people like that irl that do a switch that fast and in a country like Japan specialy during that time? yea, its like with my dad, if they dont see you doing ANYTHING they consider productive they become so bitchy and mad at you, even if you have prorities that dont really inflict on theirs they still become so antagonistic just because in their eyes you are being lazy, its pretty annoying, but realistic

  • @Jinisinsane
    @Jinisinsane ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I watched totoro after this and was bracing that something bad was going to happen as well.