#HOTARUBI NO MORI E ENDING EXPLAINED MOVIE#

It’s of note that she ages physically and matures mentally while Gin mostly remains the same. Over the next ten summers, she and Gin continue to rendezvous with each other. Their meeting on that one summer day leaves a venerable impression on Hotaru, and it becomes the one thing she anticipates every year when summer approaches. For the next few days after that, Gin and Hotaru spend time together, the former accompanying her as she plays in the water, hangs from trees, and frolics in the windy meadows, while also meeting some of his spirit companions, learning as well of a particular caveat of her association with him: as long as he does not come into contact with human skin, he won’t disappear into nothingness. He leads her around the forest, comforting her and eventually trails her back home where she recounts the story to her enthusiastic grandfather, who in his youth longed to see such spirits. You see, ten years ago, while playing in the forests surrounding said enclave, she got lost, and stumbled upon a humanoid spirit named Gin, who is portrayed with white hair and wearing a Noh mask over his face. The film starts with Hotaru Takegawa, a now-adolescent girl, retelling the story of one summer that forever changed her life, and sparked her yearly summer trip to her grandfather’s pavillion. PLOT The beginnings of a bright friendship… The success of the film led Yuki to create a follow-up to her original manga, focusing on the events of the story from the perspective of Gin, the male protagonist, which also sold well.

In Scotland, where it made its first international premiere, it received an accolade at an animation festival in Leeds, and it was at Los Angeles’ Anime Expo where it continued its introductory strides. The reaction to the film was overall very positive, remaining in theatres for months after its initial release, and winning the Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation that year. Eventually, Osaka and Tokyo would be where it would first see the light of day, six months after. Originally, it was slated to premiere at Chiba’s Anime Contents Expo six months before its eventual release date, but was postponed due to the effects of the Tohoku earthquake.

#HOTARUBI NO MORI E ENDING EXPLAINED MOVIE#

Its anime adaptation is created by the hands of Brain’s Base, a studio made out of former Tokyo Movie Shinsha employees despite their unfamiliar-sounding name, you might have heard of some of their more significant works such as Baccano!, Durarara!!, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU and the above-mentioned Natsume’s Book Of Friends. Hotarubi No Mori E, also known by its English title Into the Forest of Fireflies’ Light, premiered on 17 September 2011, taking as its source a single-volume manga from July 2002 written by award-winning author Yuki Midorikawa, who after writing this would go on to release Natsume’s Book Of Friends, another manga and anime duet based on a similar premise to this, a year later to similar levels of success.

Something about the song’s composition, its inspiring, comforting lyrics combined with the fluid visuals from the anime struck a chord with me, and needless to say, my curiosity about this film was piqued even more, enough to see it last summer.Ī tale about a girl and her dank forest buddy My initial experience of this film came from a very famous AMV titled “you can be king again”, named after the eponymous 2012 song by British singer Lauren Aquilina, which to this date has amassed more than 150 million views and over 140,000 comments. In contrast, there’s Hotarubi No Mori E a film that lasts only 44 minutes, but rests on a linear premise and focuses on single character relationship that even its detractors can admit to how followable it is. In preparation for last week’s post, I had to read Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers and was surprised at how verbose and detailed some of the chapters were, that one would have to wade through it in order to figure out what exactly was the main premise of it. Some anime movies are just so simple, yet so profound that they can tell a story better than a single novel could.

Hotarubi no mori e ending explained