This anime is based on the experience of the original author, Akiyuki Nosaka. He survived and his sister died. His true intention is reflected in the scene where he died at the beginning. "Why am I surviving?" Nosaka thinks, "If I didn't leave my aunt's house, Setsuko wouldn't die. I was the one who killed Setsuko."
Dude it's almost 2-3 years since I watched this movie and I only I watched it only once, you know why right. Reading your comment field my eyes with tears
@@dakshmanohar5678 This anime expresses the cruelty of war, but at the same time it is the guilt of the original author, Akiyuki Nosaka. I'm too sad to watch this anime again.
Nowadays, Japan is a peaceful country, but this anime is based on a true story from about 80 years ago, so it makes you think. I'm glad that people from overseas have seen it.
Absolutely. Here in Norway we learn about Japan's good and worse days in our history lessons every year. This movie just helps people learn all over the globe. Creds to Studio Ghibli
ngl A silent voice is sadder than this since everybody knows that the bullying of a mute girl is sadder than the horrible events that happened during ww2
This is a real life story, except the story teller "Seita" didn't die in real life, his name is Akiyuki Nosaka and he blamed himself for his sisters death, for the rest of his life. He is the author of grave of the firelies, where he killed himself in the story, essentialy telling everyone that he "died" that day. A tragic story indeed, and this movie is a materpiece.
I have a love/hate relationship with this movie. It's BEAUTIFUL, and I cry SO HARD everytime. I first watched this with my grade 8 class as part of our unit on Japan, and several of the boys actually had to leave the room towards the end, we were all so sad.
From the review by Roger Egbert: “…classics like “Bambi” have had moments that moved some audience members to tears. But these films exist within safe confines; they inspire tears, but not grief. “Grave of the Fireflies” is a powerful dramatic film that happens to be animated, and I know what the critic Ernest Rister means when he compares it to “Schindler’s List” and says, “It is the most profoundly human animated film I’ve ever seen.”’
There is a live action remake of this, but the animated version just seems to hit the feels so much better. This is, to my knowledge, the only cartoon that ever made me cry.
This is a tough one. And watching it a second time can be even worse. I rewatched it years after seeing it for the first time, and only got a minute in before starting to cry, knowing how bad it would be. Knowing the real events that it is based on makes it even harder. He survived and lived his whole life with the guilt of not being able to save his sister. Just watching your reaction has this old man in tears again. I recommend you to watch every Studio Ghibli movie you can find, at least the ones directed by Hayao Miyazaki. One of my favorites is Porco Rosso (1992). In my opinion, an underrated Ghibli movie.
Spirited away, Howl's moving castle, Kiki's delivery service, and Grave of the fireflies are the best anime films I've watched, Thank you Studio Ghibli
I never thought I could cry this much for an animated movie and I couldn't watch the reaction the entire way through because seeing someone else watch it was even more painful. It's a masterpiece, but one I can't watch very often because it breaks my heart every time.
I am absolutely obsessed with this movie. If you're interested you can order Sakuma drops from Japan. I'm sure that Setsuko's story will resonate with me forever, giving me tons of appreciation of how lucky i am to have a normal life.
Fun fact. Even Japanese people including myself didn't know untill recently. There are two different sakuma drops in Japan. Sakuma drops and Sakuma shiki drops. The one Setsuko had was Sakuma Shiki drops.
私もはじめて見た時に恐ろしくて悲しくてずっと泣いていました。 このストーリーは原作者の事実に基づくものですが、戦争が起きている全世界でおきている悲劇です。。 だからこそ戦争なんて愚かなものは必要ないと強く思います。 見て下さりありがとうございました。 When I first saw this movie, I was scared and sad and cried all the time. This story is based on the facts of the original author, but it is a tragedy that is happening all over the world where war is occurring.That is why I am against war.
I really love the art style of the studio, its amazingly good. But the story. Imagine a kid of that age, understanding what a sound of a bomb is, and what to do. Knowing that is dangerous is heartbreaking. And the entire movie. Like. Why do u make me feel like this Centane?
Your reaction video has brought it all back, I'm in bits. I collect ghibli films but I can't bring myself to buy it. I praise the makers and author. It hurt my heart so much. And stays with you for so long after. Thank you ghibli. Thank you Centane.
I’m a Japanese. So you may have made a mistake in English, but please forgive me. This movie is based on a story that actually happened. There is a bone of Setsuko in the can that contained the first drop. My great-grandfather also went to war. He was shot in the neck but he was miraculously injured. At that time, Japan called the United States and Britain the devil American and British. You think I've seen a lot of things in this movie, but I think everyone has the same opinion ... Don't go to war. I have not to repeat the conflict again.
I first came across this movie during the late 90s at college when anime was still underground and much of it was passed around through the scene when we used to trade VHS tapes and fanmade VHS subs. My friends and I were lucky enough to have gotten a fan sub SVHS version of this movie but none of us knew what the movie was about as this movie came to us as a bonus tape through a trade. Keep in mind, this was early internet and trading fansubs was partly frowned upon. When we got this random tape with a single movie on none of us knew what it was about. We didn't immediately watch it because there were so many other "fun" things to watch like Maison Ikkoku (shout out to Newtype Animations of Virginia Tech). When I got this tape, my friend told me he watched it when he made the copy and he said that it was going to be the last time he would watch it. He said it was sad and he just left it at that. When I came home that summer, one random afternoon I decided to watch it. I remember watching it but to be very honest I don't remember much about the movie. I remember it being very, very sad and even though to this day I still have my copy of the that fan sub, as well as a copy of the Japanese region 2 DVD, I have yet popped the tape back in nor have I opened my copy of the DVD. Watching these react videos and seeing the small clips from the movie reminds me why this is for me the saddest movie of all time.
Oh my..this was a really sad movie but i LOVE it. I probably will show this to my parents coz they love this type of movie. THNK U sooo much for uploading/introducing this movie Ms!🙏 hope u feel fine aft watching this😇 seeing u cry was heartbroken but seeing u smile at those cute scenes was EVERYTH!
Oh My GOD, It only started, 1 minute in, and I'm already emotional. This scarred me, I cannot even watch a reaction without crying... I hate it when angels have to die!!!
This movie broke me down to my soul when I first saw it I was sobbing uncontrollably by the time it was over I haven't been able to watch it again since
This movie is beautifully animated, the music is breathtaking and the story is captivating, now stating that I will never watch it again. My heart can not go through that again. I was a mess , my face soaked with tears with the rest of me just wrecked. A great movie but boy is it tough to watch.
I watched this one with a friend and I’m not one to usually show emotion a lot but man this one really got to me… it’s the tragic innocence and the sheer hopelessness of the story that really hit me in the feels. In my opinion I think everything should experience this movie it at least once in their lifetime. It shows how truly screwed up this world can be but also the beauty of it too.
Grave of the Firefly is actually a horror movie. Are you aware? Seita looks at us twice in the movie. It's the beginning and the end of the movie. When the movie starts, he looks straight at the camera and says: Say "September 21, 1945, that was the night I died." It's talking to a modern audience, not anyone else. And in the last scene, Seita looks straight at the audience again in front of the modern cityscape. It's like "Did you understand?" In other words, this movie is a movie in which ghosts explain to us today "why I and my sister died in pain." And again, he returns to 1945, remembering his life with his sister, suffering and returning to the present day. This is repeated forever. So this means purgatory. It's a movie that appeals to us "do something" while in the loop of suffering.
This is a very sad movie and hits harder than _Anohana_ movie because this event actually happened in World War II. In war, it's the innocent Non-combatant civilians that suffered the most - especially in the land where war is waged on. The plight of the people of an invaded land is heart wrenching.
As well as Japan, I want the person of various countries to see it. Centane Thank you watching it. I`m Japanese. If there is an English mistake, I`m sorry.
I'm Japanese. My mom was born during the day of the Hiroshima A-bomb. Grandma was living at a village outside Hiroshima and she literally went into labour when she saw the mushroom cloud and realised all of our extended family living there were all dead. They are not soldiers but bakers, carpenters, builders, housewives, children and babies. People said that we deserved it but what have we done? My family don't even recognised the Emperor as a god because we were christians.
I am so sorry for you loss! After visiting Hiroshima (wife is from Ibaraki) and seeing the Sadako Sasaki Children's Memorial, I've come to the conclusion they should have dropped it on the Emperor's Palace. It was all his fault. All of it. And they let the bastard live.
As someone whos now watched this movie twice: i understand why this movie is "the masterpiece you can only watch once". I cried 2 minutes in and never stopped even at the end credits
I grew up on this movi and it’s one of my favorite to this day, I started watching this when I first watched over the garden wall (age 6 or7) and I knew what it would be cause I’ve watched this and her thinking it’s cute and sweet my first thought was “if only u knew”
@@Centane I know I didn’t cry when I first watched it (to young to quite understand how bad) I was close tho and that’s nice (it’s hard to cry at shows in the last like 5 years I’ve cried at two shows devil man crybaby, and Carole and Tuesday) I no longer get sad at the end it makes me happy the family is safe and happy in the end
Knowing that many of the events and the fire bombing actually occurred across Japan months prior to the A-bombs is what stirred me up when I saw this the first time. Civilian casualties like this were a reality and a travesty. Definitely a soul crushing film but I feel it needs to be seen and appreciated at least once.
I'm glad you saw this movie. I heard from my grandma that the content of this movie was a common sight after the war. It's really sad and I think it's something we have to know. By the way, have you ever seen the movie "Your Name"? It's a very beautiful movie, so I want you to react if you like. From your fans in Japan.
Nice to meet you. Im japanese junior high school student. so, maybe, English is strange. sorry. This video is very sad. WW2 is very interested and very sad.It very understand This video. Takahata isao is made this video 33yeas ago. When he was little, He was experience WW2. so, He understands WW2 is sorrow. Im very happy that you watched this video. Thank you for read coment.
..I held back tears throughout the movie but that final scene of their ghosts looking at modern Japan broke me ... once I visited northern Italy and walked through its streets imagine something like this ... the horror of war that we want to cover with luminous posters and laughs ... and worst of all that some children live that nowadays.
The fact you realized faster than I did....I knew it was coming but I didn't understand that beginning part when I first wacth it which made the movie WAY more Sad
2 of them died. As you can see in the first scene of the movie. I actually re-watch the movie this pass months, I watched the movie way back high school and that was my math class :)
The work was created based on the actual experience of the original author, Mr. Nosaka, but in reality he did not live in an air raid shelter, but in a poor relative's house such as an adoptive mother or grandmother. I had a love for my older sister, but my younger sister, Keiko (who is in Setsuko at the concussion grave), feels lonely because she has to take care of her and cries at night. In the worst case, he hit Keiko's head and caused a concussion. When the food situation intensified and he moved to Fukui, he couldn't resist his instinct and didn't give Keiko a good meal. As a result, Keiko died of thinness and malnutrition. "Grave of the Firefly" is a work drawn by Mr. Nosaka as an atonement for his younger sister, Keiko, and Mr. Nosaka made such a statement in his lifetime. I can't take the place of my mother and father for my one-year-and-four-month-old sister, and it's true that she has a firefly in her mosquito book and at least a sister who has nothing else to distract her. I was kind, and when I cried, I walked on the table in the middle of the night, exposed to the night breeze, and my sister's skin was mottled with heat rash and 虱, and I even bathed in the sea. (Omitted) I wish I had at least petted my sister as much as my brother in the novel "Tomb of the Firefly", and now I feel like I'm afraid of the brutal death of bones and skin. He strongly entrusted his feelings to Seita in the novel. I wasn't that kind. 』
This was one of my favorite Movies, maybe even THE favorite movie… one year ago I became a mother and now I can’t bare the movie anymore, it gives me such a bad feeling that it actually hurts
Couldnt imagine in the era of war. losing your father, mother even after that your beloved little sister. This anime makes me cry like a kid and realise how to lost someone you loved😭😭
My grandPa dead in the war. This movie is real story I think. But of course not only Japan. Many country people much of sadness. Nobody in the world wants war.... For give me I'm not good at English.
You're doing great! It's absolutely devastating, both the realistic sense of the world and this movie. The world would be much better without war indeed.
When I first saw this, on laser disk, checked out from the Oakland Chinatown Asian library, I could not see color for a week. This movie was released in a double feature with Totoro following it I think that the juxtaposition of the hope and warmth from Totoro, following grave of the fireflies is the reason Totoro is such a beloved film in Japan by itself it’s good, but as a palate cleanser, following grave of the fireflies, it restores your faith and hope. This is the only movie I have vowed never to rewatch. It’s hard hard hard…
Iam watching this movie alone, didn't expect this so tragic, i never watching this alone if i know 😭 This anime make me so devsted, the best anime i didn't want to watch again, seriously.
OMG. You did Grave of the Fireflies. So heart wrenching. From one of the best anime studios ever. I say everyone should see this movie once...and not more than that. Same with Barefoot Gen. Do all of Studio Ghibli. You will not regret it.
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.
While everybody tends to think this is a anti war movie, it susprisingly isn’t intended as one. Isao Takahata, who was the Director of this Movie said, that he wanted to show how irresponsible Seita was, that Seita reminds him of the youth of that time (1980‘s). He said that they don’t rely on the people as much as they should and that they should take less importance in things like pride, instead they think they can do anything with just money and without a community of supporting family members or whatever. Sure we don’t know the war and i After first watching the Movie was totally supporting Seitas decision to leave his aunt… was thinking the whole time she is unreasonably mean. But if you think of it, her family was in danger as well and Seita should have tried to find work or anything to do, her take on that one wasn’t wrong and both could have lived if he didn’t decide for himself to leave with Setsuko.
My heart always breaks at the end of the movie, I recommend that you see the same as when marnie was there is anime, by the way I loved your reaction:)
My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies are actually a pretty good representation of the diversity of the Studio Ghibli films. MNT is cheerful and fanciful and suitable for innocent children. To me it's like Winnie the Pooh... innocent and gentle, but also philosophical. GotF, on the other hand, is just... pain. Most of the Studio Ghibli films will be somewhere in between these 2 extremes. MNT and GotF were actually originally released as a double-feature. What a weird combination. Don't you think?
Definitely the saddest movie and story I've ever watched but I had never regret watching. Although I'll be afraid to watch it again because the pain and sadness watching it still carries deep within me.
This anime is based on the experience of the original author, Akiyuki Nosaka. He survived and his sister died. His true intention is reflected in the scene where he died at the beginning. "Why am I surviving?" Nosaka thinks, "If I didn't leave my aunt's house, Setsuko wouldn't die. I was the one who killed Setsuko."
THANK YOU FOR BREAKING MY HEART AGAIN
that is so devastating 😭😭
Dude it's almost 2-3 years since I watched this movie and I only I watched it only once, you know why right.
Reading your comment field my eyes with tears
@@dakshmanohar5678 This anime expresses the cruelty of war, but at the same time it is the guilt of the original author, Akiyuki Nosaka. I'm too sad to watch this anime again.
@@dakshmanohar5678 .
I DIDNT KNOW THIS
Nowadays, Japan is a peaceful country, but this anime is based on a true story from about 80 years ago, so it makes you think.
I'm glad that people from overseas have seen it.
Absolutely. Here in Norway we learn about Japan's good and worse days in our history lessons every year. This movie just helps people learn all over the globe. Creds to Studio Ghibli
Wasted most of their resources on the imperial army and navy.
War is terrible. This film and AOT have taught me that at the very least.
Dude this one epic movie many people from overseas have seen it.Its a masterpiece movie
peaceful? until now japan still not plead guilty to fascism!and Japanese still warship soldiers of fascism!u think this is peaceful???????
This is one of the saddest movies I’ve ever watched.
im not lying when I say that I cried for 3 hours AFTER watching it
@@Centane same it breaks your heart into pieces, I just hate it when people call it a cartoon and say that how can someone cry over a cartoon.
ngl A silent voice is sadder than this since everybody knows that the bullying of a mute girl is sadder than the horrible events that happened during ww2
@@Centane i cannot even watch the very first minute
Like I Will Run To My Room Just To Avoid This Masterpiece Because It Was So Saad
Lol I can't sleep the night after watching it
この映画は絶対に1度は見た方がいい作品です。あなたがこの動画を作ってくれたおかげで
戦争の恐ろしさを伝えることが出来ました。本当にありがとうございました。🙏
Everyone be like ohh your name is so sad , a silent voice is so depressing.. while grave of the fireflies exist :(
Grave of the fireflies is much more sad than A silent voice in my opinion! Grave had me SOBBING after I clicked the "stop recording" button
This is a real life story, except the story teller "Seita" didn't die in real life, his name is Akiyuki Nosaka and he blamed himself for his sisters death, for the rest of his life. He is the author of grave of the firelies, where he killed himself in the story, essentialy telling everyone that he "died" that day. A tragic story indeed, and this movie is a materpiece.
he did what he thought was the better for his sister I can't blame the man, their aunt was awful.
@@valentinlageot4101 he was wrong though. The life of a young child is very fragile. They cannot survive starvation for long.
i am a 28 years old guy and this movie made me cry like a 3 year old kid
i watched the second time today
I cried as your reaction started, I cried so much during this movie. I just start crying autonomously when I see the characters now
If you don't cry watching this movie, you're definitely dead inside
Im dead inside and i cried.
underrated comment ^
@@Cegidius oh my goodness Paven
@@Centane my comment is underrated. Nice!
I didnt cry. Too much cliche in this movie
I have a love/hate relationship with this movie. It's BEAUTIFUL, and I cry SO HARD everytime. I first watched this with my grade 8 class as part of our unit on Japan, and several of the boys actually had to leave the room towards the end, we were all so sad.
From the review by Roger Egbert: “…classics like “Bambi” have had moments that moved some audience members to tears. But these films exist within safe confines; they inspire tears, but not grief. “Grave of the Fireflies” is a powerful dramatic film that happens to be animated, and I know what the critic Ernest Rister means when he compares it to “Schindler’s List” and says, “It is the most profoundly human animated film I’ve ever seen.”’
There is a live action remake of this, but the animated version just seems to hit the feels so much better. This is, to my knowledge, the only cartoon that ever made me cry.
This is a tough one.
And watching it a second time can be even worse. I rewatched it years after seeing it for the first time, and only got a minute in before starting to cry, knowing how bad it would be. Knowing the real events that it is based on makes it even harder. He survived and lived his whole life with the guilt of not being able to save his sister.
Just watching your reaction has this old man in tears again.
I recommend you to watch every Studio Ghibli movie you can find, at least the ones directed by Hayao Miyazaki. One of my favorites is Porco Rosso (1992). In my opinion, an underrated Ghibli movie.
Same, I started watching it again after convincing my friend to watch and I started balling when her bone fell out of the can
Spirited away, Howl's moving castle, Kiki's delivery service, and Grave of the fireflies are the best anime films I've watched, Thank you Studio Ghibli
the wind rises, whisper of the hearts, the tales of princess kaguya and especially princess mononoke are also the best..
清太が叔母の家を出たのは、人としてのギリギリの尊厳を守ったのだと思います。
I never thought I could cry this much for an animated movie and I couldn't watch the reaction the entire way through because seeing someone else watch it was even more painful. It's a masterpiece, but one I can't watch very often because it breaks my heart every time.
I came here to cry my eyes out again after watching this anime, don't know why. I never thought I will be crying this much.
The man tossing her ashes in the beginning gets me every time:(
I am absolutely obsessed with this movie. If you're interested you can order Sakuma drops from Japan. I'm sure that Setsuko's story will resonate with me forever, giving me tons of appreciation of how lucky i am to have a normal life.
We have Sakuma drops here in Norway! I bought them and even shattered a tear. They really know how to get your feelings going
Fun fact. Even Japanese people including myself didn't know untill recently.
There are two different sakuma drops in Japan. Sakuma drops and Sakuma shiki drops.
The one Setsuko had was Sakuma Shiki drops.
setsuko's voice is so real. a younger sister i wished that i never had.. the emotions this film made me feel I will cherish as long as i live.
私もはじめて見た時に恐ろしくて悲しくてずっと泣いていました。
このストーリーは原作者の事実に基づくものですが、戦争が起きている全世界でおきている悲劇です。。
だからこそ戦争なんて愚かなものは必要ないと強く思います。
見て下さりありがとうございました。
When I first saw this movie, I was scared and sad and cried all the time.
This story is based on the facts of the original author, but it is a tragedy that is happening all over the world where war is occurring.That is why I am against war.
As soon as you said, “I really dont want to cry” in the beginning I audibly said, “OH YOURE GONNA CRY”. 😅
This movie broke me to tears man😭 I'm crying now
I really love the art style of the studio, its amazingly good.
But the story. Imagine a kid of that age, understanding what a sound of a bomb is, and what to do. Knowing that is dangerous is heartbreaking.
And the entire movie. Like. Why do u make me feel like this Centane?
this was truly devastating man, IDK WHY I WATCHED IT. people recommend movies that break my heart 🥺
every kid in the world knew what the sound mean it is WW2, especially Axis civillian but it's not only them.
It's based on a true story
I am Japanese. Japanese people were introducing your video. I cried while watching this video🥲
Your reaction video has brought it all back, I'm in bits.
I collect ghibli films but I can't bring myself to buy it. I praise the makers and author. It hurt my heart so much. And stays with you for so long after.
Thank you ghibli.
Thank you Centane.
sending you so much love Olaf 💓
Other Ghibli movies I cried to, but not for this kind of sadness:
-The Red Turtle
-The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
-Only yesterday
I’m a Japanese.
So you may have made a mistake in English, but please forgive me.
This movie is based on a story that actually happened. There is a bone of Setsuko in the can that contained the first drop. My great-grandfather also went to war. He was shot in the neck but he was miraculously injured. At that time, Japan called the United States and Britain the devil American and British. You think I've seen a lot of things in this movie, but I think everyone has the same opinion ... Don't go to war. I have not to repeat the conflict again.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Your english is great! I would never think this was based on a true story, that's even more heartbreaking 🥺
If you think about it. Their own country did this to them and their civilians be supporting world conquer. So they kinda got what they deserve.
Anta no Eiga joooooooooooooozu da na!
Imagine if all people understand about life so they will share love to eachother and we won't see this cut little girl died like this😭😭😭.
I first came across this movie during the late 90s at college when anime was still underground and much of it was passed around through the scene when we used to trade VHS tapes and fanmade VHS subs. My friends and I were lucky enough to have gotten a fan sub SVHS version of this movie but none of us knew what the movie was about as this movie came to us as a bonus tape through a trade. Keep in mind, this was early internet and trading fansubs was partly frowned upon. When we got this random tape with a single movie on none of us knew what it was about. We didn't immediately watch it because there were so many other "fun" things to watch like Maison Ikkoku (shout out to Newtype Animations of Virginia Tech). When I got this tape, my friend told me he watched it when he made the copy and he said that it was going to be the last time he would watch it. He said it was sad and he just left it at that.
When I came home that summer, one random afternoon I decided to watch it. I remember watching it but to be very honest I don't remember much about the movie. I remember it being very, very sad and even though to this day I still have my copy of the that fan sub, as well as a copy of the Japanese region 2 DVD, I have yet popped the tape back in nor have I opened my copy of the DVD.
Watching these react videos and seeing the small clips from the movie reminds me why this is for me the saddest movie of all time.
I'm a 55-year-old man that used to be a street fighter and I ugly cried.
I’m Japanese. Thank you for watching the wonderful animation of Japan.
Oh my..this was a really sad movie but i LOVE it. I probably will show this to my parents coz they love this type of movie. THNK U sooo much for uploading/introducing this movie Ms!🙏 hope u feel fine aft watching this😇 seeing u cry was heartbroken but seeing u smile at those cute scenes was EVERYTH!
Thank you sosososo much for the kindest words 🥺💓 I really truly appreciate your support!! ✨
This is my favorite Ghibli movie. I can't even watch someone react to it without tears running down my cheeks.
Oh My GOD, It only started, 1 minute in, and I'm already emotional. This scarred me, I cannot even watch a reaction without crying... I hate it when angels have to die!!!
This movie broke me down to my soul when I first saw it
I was sobbing uncontrollably by the time it was over
I haven't been able to watch it again since
みてくれてありがとう(*´ω｀*)
素敵なリアクション動画でした
Just an incredible work of art
This movie is beautifully animated, the music is breathtaking and the story is captivating, now stating that I will never watch it again. My heart can not go through that again. I was a mess , my face soaked with tears with the rest of me just wrecked.
A great movie but boy is it tough to watch.
That scene with watermelon is the most heartbreaking scene in all the movies there are
I watched this one with a friend and I’m not one to usually show emotion a lot but man this one really got to me… it’s the tragic innocence and the sheer hopelessness of the story that really hit me in the feels. In my opinion I think everything should experience this movie it at least once in their lifetime. It shows how truly screwed up this world can be but also the beauty of it too.
When i first saw this Masterpiece.
I feel like like someone pulling out my heart from my chest.
Grave of the Firefly is actually a horror movie. Are you aware? Seita looks at us twice in the movie. It's the beginning and the end of the movie. When the movie starts, he looks straight at the camera and says: Say "September 21, 1945, that was the night I died." It's talking to a modern audience, not anyone else. And in the last scene, Seita looks straight at the audience again in front of the modern cityscape. It's like "Did you understand?" In other words, this movie is a movie in which ghosts explain to us today "why I and my sister died in pain." And again, he returns to 1945, remembering his life with his sister, suffering and returning to the present day. This is repeated forever. So this means purgatory. It's a movie that appeals to us "do something" while in the loop of suffering.
This is a very sad movie and hits harder than _Anohana_ movie because this event actually happened in World War II.
In war, it's the innocent Non-combatant civilians that suffered the most - especially in the land where war is waged on. The plight of the people of an invaded land is heart wrenching.
This movie is amazing. It’s hard not to cry watching this.
As well as Japan, I want the person of various countries to see it. Centane Thank you watching it.
I`m Japanese. If there is an English mistake, I`m sorry.
I'm Japanese. My mom was born during the day of the Hiroshima A-bomb. Grandma was living at a village outside Hiroshima and she literally went into labour when she saw the mushroom cloud and realised all of our extended family living there were all dead. They are not soldiers but bakers, carpenters, builders, housewives, children and babies. People said that we deserved it but what have we done? My family don't even recognised the Emperor as a god because we were christians.
I am so sorry for you loss! After visiting Hiroshima (wife is from Ibaraki) and seeing the Sadako Sasaki Children's Memorial, I've come to the conclusion they should have dropped it on the Emperor's Palace. It was all his fault. All of it. And they let the bastard live.
As someone whos now watched this movie twice: i understand why this movie is "the masterpiece you can only watch once". I cried 2 minutes in and never stopped even at the end credits
And yes, it took me nearly 20 years to build up the courage to watch it again today
I grew up on this movi and it’s one of my favorite to this day, I started watching this when I first watched over the garden wall (age 6 or7) and I knew what it would be cause I’ve watched this and her thinking it’s cute and sweet my first thought was “if only u knew”
in my defense i thought this was going to be the cutest movie I've ever seen
THIS HAD ME CRYING FOR HOURS AFTER RECORDING
@@Centane I know I didn’t cry when I first watched it (to young to quite understand how bad) I was close tho and that’s nice (it’s hard to cry at shows in the last like 5 years I’ve cried at two shows devil man crybaby, and Carole and Tuesday) I no longer get sad at the end it makes me happy the family is safe and happy in the end
Knowing that many of the events and the fire bombing actually occurred across Japan months prior to the A-bombs is what stirred me up when I saw this the first time. Civilian casualties like this were a reality and a travesty. Definitely a soul crushing film but I feel it needs to be seen and appreciated at least once.
My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies where released as a double feature!
The movie is for millions childs died in war .
I'm glad you saw this movie. I heard from my grandma that the content of this movie was a common sight after the war. It's really sad and I think it's something we have to know.
By the way, have you ever seen the movie "Your Name"? It's a very beautiful movie, so I want you to react if you like.
From your fans in Japan.
if u really feel sad，then let japan say sorry to whole Asia for the war in WWII!
10:07 here we all cried 😭😭
I think people with a lot of emotions are nice people
Nice to meet you. Im japanese junior high school student. so, maybe, English is strange. sorry. This video is very sad. WW2 is very interested and very sad.It very understand This video. Takahata isao is made this video 33yeas ago. When he was little, He was experience WW2. so, He understands WW2 is sorrow. Im very happy that you watched this video. Thank you for read coment.
War is cruel. That's why we must try our best to maintain peace.
i was just dying when i first watched that movie bc of how brutal is the war and i still cry when i see it
..I held back tears throughout the movie but that final scene of their ghosts looking at modern Japan broke me ... once I visited northern Italy and walked through its streets imagine something like this ... the horror of war that we want to cover with luminous posters and laughs ... and worst of all that some children live that nowadays.
The fact you realized faster than I did....I knew it was coming but I didn't understand that beginning part when I first wacth it which made the movie WAY more Sad
I'm also fragile, but it's pure heart to be crying in Japanese movies.
2 of them died. As you can see in the first scene of the movie. I actually re-watch the movie this pass months, I watched the movie way back high school and that was my math class :)
I watched this as a kid, and I can safely say I was scarred for life
The work was created based on the actual experience of the original author, Mr. Nosaka, but in reality he did not live in an air raid shelter, but in a poor relative's house such as an adoptive mother or grandmother.
I had a love for my older sister, but my younger sister, Keiko (who is in Setsuko at the concussion grave), feels lonely because she has to take care of her and cries at night. In the worst case, he hit Keiko's head and caused a concussion.
When the food situation intensified and he moved to Fukui, he couldn't resist his instinct and didn't give Keiko a good meal. As a result, Keiko died of thinness and malnutrition.
"Grave of the Firefly" is a work drawn by Mr. Nosaka as an atonement for his younger sister, Keiko, and Mr. Nosaka made such a statement in his lifetime.
I can't take the place of my mother and father for my one-year-and-four-month-old sister, and it's true that she has a firefly in her mosquito book and at least a sister who has nothing else to distract her. I was kind, and when I cried, I walked on the table in the middle of the night, exposed to the night breeze, and my sister's skin was mottled with heat rash and 虱, and I even bathed in the sea. (Omitted) I wish I had at least petted my sister as much as my brother in the novel "Tomb of the Firefly", and now I feel like I'm afraid of the brutal death of bones and skin. He strongly entrusted his feelings to Seita in the novel. I wasn't that kind. 』
This was one of my favorite Movies, maybe even THE favorite movie… one year ago I became a mother and now I can’t bare the movie anymore, it gives me such a bad feeling that it actually hurts
Couldnt imagine in the era of war. losing your father, mother even after that your beloved little sister. This anime makes me cry like a kid and realise how to lost someone you loved😭😭
Happy movie at the end because brother n sister are RWUNITED IN THE NEXT LIFE AS GHOST FOREVER
30 seconds in i was like "oh no she thinks they're going to survive"
My grandPa dead in the war.
This movie is real story I think.
But of course not only Japan.
Many country people much of sadness.
Nobody in the world wants war....
For give me I'm not good at English.
You're doing great! It's absolutely devastating, both the realistic sense of the world and this movie. The world would be much better without war indeed.
Thank you !
I want world peace ！
I subscribed because your one of the very few reactors who watched this movie.
When I first saw this, on laser disk, checked out from the Oakland Chinatown Asian library, I could not see color for a week. This movie was released in a double feature with Totoro following it I think that the juxtaposition of the hope and warmth from Totoro, following grave of the fireflies is the reason Totoro is such a beloved film in Japan by itself it’s good, but as a palate cleanser, following grave of the fireflies, it restores your faith and hope. This is the only movie I have vowed never to rewatch. It’s hard hard hard…
I really dont want to cry..... Ohhh poor thing!
Those white things from that can is actually a bone fragment from setsuko
That makes things even more SAD
The Green Mile is so sad when you watch it but when the movie has ended it's over.
This movie makes you hurt for the rest of your life.
This movie is a masterpiece that you won't going to watch for 2nd time.
I dont ever want to see this movie again. To the reason that yes its traumatizing
I watched it as a kid. That scene where their mother was fully covered with bandages and blood really hit me hard and scared me.
Iam watching this movie alone, didn't expect this so tragic, i never watching this alone if i know 😭
This anime make me so devsted, the best anime i didn't want to watch again, seriously.
OMG. You did Grave of the Fireflies. So heart wrenching. From one of the best anime studios ever. I say everyone should see this movie once...and not more than that. Same with Barefoot Gen.
Do all of Studio Ghibli. You will not regret it.
It's sad that the bones of the dead Setsuko are put in the drop cans of their memories. Thank you for taking the courage to watch this movie🥺
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.
time for the tears to flow.
absolutely true 🥺
While everybody tends to think this is a anti war movie, it susprisingly isn’t intended as one. Isao Takahata, who was the Director of this Movie said, that he wanted to show how irresponsible Seita was, that Seita reminds him of the youth of that time (1980‘s). He said that they don’t rely on the people as much as they should and that they should take less importance in things like pride, instead they think they can do anything with just money and without a community of supporting family members or whatever. Sure we don’t know the war and i After first watching the Movie was totally supporting Seitas decision to leave his aunt… was thinking the whole time she is unreasonably mean. But if you think of it, her family was in danger as well and Seita should have tried to find work or anything to do, her take on that one wasn’t wrong and both could have lived if he didn’t decide for himself to leave with Setsuko.
My heart always breaks at the end of the movie, I recommend that you see the same as when marnie was there is anime, by the way I loved your reaction:)
I'll take a look! Thank you so much Isaac ❤️
Be careful with Ghibli movies, they are very strict with copyright. Many other reactors were strike down.
Did you know they played this movie back to back with totoro? Literaly people watched this before Totoro.
"About two siblings that are going to survive..."
Uh...
日本人はアメリカが大好き。
WW2の歴史教育がほんの2時間で終わる。
This movie has always made me cry. It's so sad that it almost traumatizes you😔
If you liked this movie you’ll love come and see it isn’t anime but pretty similar
I just watched it now and i’ve gone here on youtube to see if i’m the only one crying like a child:(
Is this movie based on a true story? 😔😭Omggg
hey I have a movie to recommend called in this corner of the world it made my cry.
That's a great movie too.
@@caseyclausen2627 It really is.
i only cried at an anime and an animr movie 1 assasination classroom and 2 this
seita is still in "purgatory" and repeatedly carried his own mistakes and has to watch his sister's passed away even now
One of the best movies I can never watch again.
My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies are actually a pretty good representation of the diversity of the Studio Ghibli films.
MNT is cheerful and fanciful and suitable for innocent children. To me it's like Winnie the Pooh... innocent and gentle, but also philosophical.
GotF, on the other hand, is just... pain.
Most of the Studio Ghibli films will be somewhere in between these 2 extremes.
MNT and GotF were actually originally released as a double-feature. What a weird combination. Don't you think?
Japanese official crying movie about Unit 731
one of the Saddest Studio Ghibli movie they ever made
Trivia: This movie was double featured with My Neighbor Totoro when first released in Japan.
Definitely the saddest movie and story I've ever watched but I had never regret watching. Although I'll be afraid to watch it again because the pain and sadness watching it still carries deep within me.