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Grave of the Fireflies

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Grave of the Fireflies	comment	Grave of the Fireflies (ç�«åž‚ã‚‹ã�®å¢“, Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 film directed by Isao Takahata and is the second film to be produced by Studio Ghibli. It was released theatrically as one-half of a double feature; the other half was the uplifting My Neighbor Totoro.The film is based on the short story of the same name written by the late Akiyuki Nosaka (1930-2015), who based much of the plot on his own childhood in Japan during and after World War II. The film begins with Seita dying and reuniting with his little sister Setsuko as a ghost and the two have another look at the last few months of their life, starting with the loss of their home and their mother in the 1945 bombing of Kobe until Setsuko's death.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_124d7bce	type	Intimate Hair Brushing
Grave of the Fireflies / int_124d7bce	comment	Intimate Hair Brushing: Seita does this to Setsuko while at the shelter. While doing this, he notices that there is plenty of dandruff along the comb, which is the first indication that she is suffering from malnutrition.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Grave of the Fireflies / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: What happened to Seita after Setsuko's death.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
Grave of the Fireflies / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: Seita runs away from his aunt's home for several reasons, Setsuko in tow. She's not particularly sad to see them go.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_16fdd774	type	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
Grave of the Fireflies / int_16fdd774	comment	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Setsuko loses a sandal during the air raid that destroys their home and kills their mother. For the rest of the film (and her life), she wears blue-strapped getas the Aunt's daughter bought her.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Grave of the Fireflies / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: During the bombings.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Grave of the Fireflies / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: The plot kicks off with B-29 bombers flying over the city of Kobe, dropping small incendiary pellets that set everything they touch on fire.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Grave of the Fireflies / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: The aunt treats Setsuko's crying over her dead mother as an annoyance rather than deep emotional trauma.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Grave of the Fireflies / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Seita's spirit glances at the audience near the end.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_20152e12	type	Real Place Background
Grave of the Fireflies / int_20152e12	comment	Real-Place Background: The film features locations that were accurately based on real locations.note On the Australian DVD, real-life location shots are shown as part of the extras and what became of them.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
Grave of the Fireflies / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: At the beginning, a bunch of people walk past Seita as he dies of malnutrition. This was a very common sight in those days, so no one offers to help him. When an air raid siren goes off, the aunt says, in a very disinterested tone, "Oh, not again." When Seita informs his aunt that his mother is dead, her reaction is essentially to mumble, "How awful," and tell Seita to write to his father about it, without saying much else aside of how odd it is that he hasn't responded by now.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Grave of the Fireflies / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: 4-year-old Setsuko dies of starvation, and so does 14-year-old Seita a bit later.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Grave of the Fireflies / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The whole film, but particularly the ending: Seita withdraws all of his savings to buy food for Setsuko, but she's already in too poor of a state to recover, and he can no longer use the money to save his own life.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_2796448d	type	Rules of Orphan Economics
Grave of the Fireflies / int_2796448d	comment	Rules of Orphan Economics: The worst-case scenario; Seita has no money and is too proud to go back to his aunt with his sister. And since the whole country is low on resources due to war, there's no one to swoop in and save them.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_285547ef	type	Madness-Induced Omnivore
Grave of the Fireflies / int_285547ef	comment	Madness-Induced Omnivore: As Setsuko's starvation advances, she becomes delirious and starts to eat mud and glass beads in a desperate attempt to find anything to fill her belly.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Grave of the Fireflies / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Completely justified — the clothes the kids wear throughout the film are the only clothes they have left after the rest of their belongings burned with their home.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_319a6fd7	type	Passed in Their Sleep
Grave of the Fireflies / int_319a6fd7	comment	Passed in Their Sleep: invoked Setsuko dies of starvation and sickness while she sleeps:
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Grave of the Fireflies / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The aunt scolding Setsuko for her crying over her dead mother, among other things.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
Grave of the Fireflies / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: Setsuko says this to Seita when she gets sick from malnutrition.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Grave of the Fireflies / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: The Foregone Conclusion thanks to the opening of the film.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
Grave of the Fireflies / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Seita and Setsuko's aunt all but exists to make their mother and father look better by comparison.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Grave of the Fireflies / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Deep on the cynicism side, as this movie attempts to be a pretty depressing and tearjerking film.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Grave of the Fireflies / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The film opens with Seita dying and meeting Setsuko's spirit in the afterlife. As the film goes back to show their lives and their struggle against famine, it's already a given that their efforts aren't going to end well.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_3cfeeb48	type	I Die Free
Grave of the Fireflies / int_3cfeeb48	comment	I Die Free: A metaphorical example of this happens with Seita after he dies since he can now be at peace with his sister and free from the hardship they had to endure.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Grave of the Fireflies / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Foregone Conclusion. The final shot shows Seita and Setsuko looking at modern-day Kobe after it has been rebuilt.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Grave of the Fireflies / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Kobe. This is justified since the film takes place during World War II when the city is bombed.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
Grave of the Fireflies / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: How tragic is this movie? Well, it opens with the narrator, as a ghost, bringing up the day he died. We then see his disheveled, physical self dying alone in a train station with barely anyone extending so much as a hand to support him. Then, as we see janitors cleaning up, we see quite a couple of corpses in that very station, with the janitor bringing up how easy it is to spot a dead person from their eyes alone. Just before the title, we see the ghost of a little girl seeing the narrator's body, only to find the ghost of said narrator greeting her as they depart together.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Grave of the Fireflies / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Pride in Seita's case, but they're explicitly tied together by the story.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_493a162d	type	Bioluminescence Is Cool
Grave of the Fireflies / int_493a162d	comment	Bioluminescence Is Cool: The glowing fireflies provide light for Seita and Setsuko in a cavern, making it look like a starry night sky. The look on the kids' faces shows they're quite awed at it all.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Grave of the Fireflies / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The destruction of Kobe. The sky is filled with smoke, there's nothing but charred wood and corpses left in the city, and there's black rain right afterwards.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Grave of the Fireflies / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Seita and Setsuko repeatedly have to run from bombings, survive on their own, and deal with useless adults throughout the film. It occasionally causes Seita to break down crying.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_4bbe1059	type	The World Mocks Your Loss
Grave of the Fireflies / int_4bbe1059	comment	The World Mocks Your Loss: Seita oversees a mother interacting with her young daughter after Setsuko died. On top of that, he sees another Japanese family coming home to find all of their belongings untouched by the bombs. All the while, Seita is carrying a box full of charcoal to cremate Setsuko's body.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Grave of the Fireflies / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "September 21, 1945. That was the night I died." Japaneseæ˜å’Œï¼’ï¼�å¹´ï¼™æœˆï¼’ï¼‘æ—¥å¤œã€�åƒ•ã�¯æ»ã‚“ã� ã€‚ Shouwa nijuunen kugatsu nijuuichinichi yoru, boku wa shinda. Literally "The night of 21 September of the year Showa 20, I died." And that's the opening line. "She never woke up." Japaneseç¯€å�ã�¯ã€�ã��ã�®ã�¾ã�¾ç›®ã‚’è¦šã�¾ã�•ã�ªã�‹ã�£ã�Ÿã€‚ Setsuko wa, sono mama me o samasanakatta. Literally "Setsuko never woke up."
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Grave of the Fireflies / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The mother is horrifically burnt from the bombings, covered in bandages. She dies as a result. Setsuko is not only severely emaciated, but she is also covered in rashes from the seawater she has been bathing in. Accordingly, she dies as well.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_504ca25a	type	Live-Action Adaptation
Grave of the Fireflies / int_504ca25a	comment	Live-Action Adaptation: A 2005 NTV production released to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the war's end tells the story from the aunt's perspective. It makes her a little more sympathetic, giving her a bigger family of her own to look after. It also explains why she became so cold and uncaring (she shut herself off emotionally after the war-related death of her husband). She also has a My God, What Have I Done? reaction to the deaths of Seita and Setsuko, once she learns of them.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Grave of the Fireflies / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie begins with Seita looking directly at the viewer(s), and near the end the same thing happens again.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_5586a766	type	Luminescent Blush
Grave of the Fireflies / int_5586a766	comment	Luminescent Blush: The Aunt's daughter, Seita's cousin, does this when she looks over at Setsuko eating soup with no rice in it.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
Grave of the Fireflies / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: The plot centers around two kids having to survive after Japan gets bombed during World War II. They first have to deal with their home being destroyed, and their mother dying in the bombing raid. Then, they have to live with an abusive aunt. Finally, they run away to live on their own.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Grave of the Fireflies / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Setsuko, due to malnourishment and possibly malaria. She starts sucking marbles, thinking they're fruit drops.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Grave of the Fireflies / int_66755d29	comment	Akiyuki Nosaka wrote the original short story during his own despair event horizon. Seita was his Author Avatar, and when his sister starved to death, he "died" as well.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Grave of the Fireflies / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Seita and Setsuko's mother is killed in the bombing of Kobe early on. What little is seen of her after the bombings is covered in bandages, burned beyond recognition.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_686cac9f	type	Flies Equals Evil
Grave of the Fireflies / int_686cac9f	comment	Flies Equals Evil: Inverted with the titular fireflies that manage to cheer up the two siblings and help to illuminate the bomb shelter, only for a moment. Flies equals death in the case of the mother's maggot-infested corpse and the flies surrounding the body Setsuko finds at the beach.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Grave of the Fireflies / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: This is Seita's defining trait. He's even willing to steal to look out for his little sister.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Grave of the Fireflies / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Seita and Setsuko's aunt, depending on your interpretation as to how much of a three-dimensional character she is, isn't certainly a pleasant person, especially how she can treat her nephew and her niece at times, but has a good point to make at times.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Grave of the Fireflies / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Seita's inability to prevent Setsuko's death.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_6f78d9be	type	Resentful Guardian
Grave of the Fireflies / int_6f78d9be	comment	Resentful Guardian: The aunt. She was forced to take care of two extra children, one of whom was too young to do much, while Seita seemed to refuse to find work, or at least continue trying to go to school, along with their reluctance to sell any of their mother's belongings contributed to the hardships she was already struggling with.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Grave of the Fireflies / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Seita and Setsuko lose their mother in the Kobe bombings, get mistreated by their aunt, are met with distain by passerby and civilians, and then slowly die from malnutrition.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Grave of the Fireflies / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Seita's repeatedly advised to swallow his pride and go back to his aunt as things keep getting worse, which he ignores even as Setsuko starts dying. Even more glaringly, the fact that the entire time his sister was slowly starving to death, he had 3,000 yen in the bank he could have cashed in at any time. This is Played for Drama since he was fourteen and probably didn't understand that sometimes you need to get rid of "honor" and go back to a bad situation.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_76e24530	type	Delicate and Sickly
Grave of the Fireflies / int_76e24530	comment	Delicate and Sickly: Seita and Setsuko's mother was implied to have some sort of heart condition. Her final line to Seita is to assure him that she has her medicine. Setsuko, mainly from starvation and malnutrition. She's also covered in rashes towards the end of her life, from bathing in seawater.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Grave of the Fireflies / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: As worse as it can possibly get.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Grave of the Fireflies / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: The Americans are rarely seen, and even more rarely discussed. The war itself is treated as a sort of unending natural disaster the Japanese are trying to survive. Roger Ebert said Asian filmmakers seldom ever identify the enemy as anything but the enemy, since most of the Asian countries have had many wars on their soil with so many nations that they don't need to name them. As it stands, from a cinematic standpoint the lack of details on the Americans as anything but an ambiguous entity helps to keep the focus on the plight of the main characters, without forcing the viewer to confront the wider conflict that is World War II itself.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_7c4b9d2	type	Sailor Fuku
Grave of the Fireflies / int_7c4b9d2	comment	Sailor Fuku: Setsuko is seen wearing a dress like this during a flashback to happier times at the beach.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Grave of the Fireflies / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The opening line of the film is Seita saying, "September 21, 1945. That was the night I died." Shortly after, he's shown reuniting as a spirit with Setsuko. Knowing this ahead of time doesn't make it any less tragic, though.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
Grave of the Fireflies / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: The film is about two young siblings trying to survive in war-torn Japan during the final days of World War II. The beginning scene makes it clear the protagonists are doomed, and while the violence isn't hugely graphic, the movie doesn't shy away from depicting the terrible effects of war on civilians and especially children. It's got a reputation as one of the saddest movies ever made for a good reason.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Grave of the Fireflies / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Seita, for Setsuko's sake. He deliberately hides the fact that their mother is burned beyond recognition and later dies. But sometimes even he can't contain his tears, and cries for the first time, when Setsuko tells him that their aunt told her their mother died.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_8470aa73	type	Roman Ã Clef
Grave of the Fireflies / int_8470aa73	comment	Roman Ã Clef: The story was based on the author's childhood during and after World War II, except in this case his Author Avatar, Seita, dies with his sister, Setsuko. The author had blamed himself for the death of his sister from malnutrition and had written the short story as a way to make amends to her.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_87f5a0c	type	Bandage Mummy
Grave of the Fireflies / int_87f5a0c	comment	Bandage Mummy: The mother after being horrifically burned in the first round of bombings. She doesn't get better.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_88141a44	type	Heartwarming Orphan
Grave of the Fireflies / int_88141a44	comment	Heartwarming Orphan: Seita and Setsuko are effectively orphans after their mother dies, since their father is away in the war and is later revealed to have died long before the bombing of Kobe and their aunt is a Resentful Guardian who can't see the back of them quickly enough. Despite these hardships, Setsuko and Seita stick together and look after each other as best as they can.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_887da4ea	type	Died Happily Ever After
Grave of the Fireflies / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: At the start of the film, we see Seita and Setsuko's souls taking a train ride and it ends with the now very long dead siblings going to sleep just outside modern-day Kobe. No explanation is offered as to what this final scene actually means, although it is implied that they're at peace Together in Death.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_88f16cee	type	Go Out with a Smile
Grave of the Fireflies / int_88f16cee	comment	Go Out with a Smile: Setsuko. In her case, it's because she was suffering from severe malnutrition, to the point where she was delirious. Reduced to eating balls of dirt and marbles that she had mistaken for food, she died with a weak smile on her face and one last "Thank you" to her brother.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Grave of the Fireflies / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: The 2005 live-action adaptation retells the story from the aunt's perspective.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Grave of the Fireflies / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Both siblings are already deceased as the story is about the last few months of their life.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_94721d54	type	Your Favorite
Grave of the Fireflies / int_94721d54	comment	Your Favorite: Seita brings Setsuko fruit drops whenever he can get them.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_96709930	type	Posthumous Narration
Grave of the Fireflies / int_96709930	comment	Posthumous Narration: The opening line from Seita reveals that he is deceased.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Grave of the Fireflies / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Though this is justified as a majority of the story takes place during World War II.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Grave of the Fireflies / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Poor Setsuko. She slowly starves to death, has to deal with a horrible rash from seawater, and ends up hallucinating in her last moments.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_9c9e4682	type	Blush Sticker
Grave of the Fireflies / int_9c9e4682	comment	Blush Sticker: Setsuko has these, and from time to time they're a source of Mood Dissonance. She loses them as her body grows weaker and thinner from starvation.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Grave of the Fireflies / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: This happens to Seita and Setsuko's aunt later in the expanded movie, after they run away, considering her abuse. It's later revealed that she regrets everything that happened after she found out.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Grave of the Fireflies / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: This movie was paired up with My Neighbor Totoro on both films' original release. People walked out after Totoro if that one was shown first, while they stayed (and enjoyed) both if Grave was the first one shown. There are moments of mood whiplash in the movie itself. Sure, the entire thing is bleak, but some parts are happier than others. They could almost make you believe that things are going to end well, if you didn't know how the movie ended at the start. There's also going from this story straight into the incredibly vulgar (although thematically similar) American Hijiki, if you read the book.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Grave of the Fireflies / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: After Setsuko dies, Seita prepares a funeral pyre for her. Also, the wooden box that Seita is seen carrying on the train contains his mother's ashes.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
Grave of the Fireflies / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: The Really Dead Montage with Setsuko's spirit/shade/memory shown playing around the pond is bad enough. But when that's coupled with another family returning home to find literally everything intact, including the specifically mentioned old record player, and then playing a mournfully sweet rendition of "Home Sweet Home", the scene becomes even more poignant.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Grave of the Fireflies / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Justified, considering the wartime. Even the kind farmer who lends Seita his wagon wishes he could afford to share his rice with the latter, but he can't. Seita and Setsuko's aunt also resents the two extra mouths she had to feed because she was barely getting by without them.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Grave of the Fireflies / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Sympathetic as he may be, Seita's pride was the cause of both his and his sister's deaths. Multiple people tell Seita that he needs to swallow his pride and go back to his aunt. As much as he may not like it, it's the only way that Setsuko and he are going to survive. Seita refuses, and both of the orphans die as a result.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Grave of the Fireflies / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Fruit drops for Setsuko. She carries a tin of them around everywhere, even after it goes empty.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Grave of the Fireflies / int_b15b6a35	comment	Despite managing to bury it a lot of the time, Seita crosses this and has to live with it for so much of the film that one would think that he's a Cosmic Plaything.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_b61b7b5c	type	This Is My Story
Grave of the Fireflies / int_b61b7b5c	comment	This Is My Story: The opening line of the movie:
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_b66200cc	type	Dad's Off Fighting in the War
Grave of the Fireflies / int_b66200cc	comment	Dad's Off Fighting in the War: Seita and Setsuko's father is away in the navy. Seita tries to write to him, but he gets no response. The ship that he is shown to be on, Japanese cruiser Maya, was a real ship that was sunk in October 1944 with the loss of 479 men. Thus, it's obliquely implied that he had already died before the events of the story. When Seita finds out Japan surrendered, his first question is asking the adults around him if his father's ship sank. He gets no helpful response, and eventually walks off and accepts that his father likely has died. Tragically, this happens moments before the scene where his sister passes away.note This was unfortunately very much a common occurrence within Japan's civilian population, even as early in the war as 1942. The Imperial Japanese military was very particular about what information they disclosed to the public, so not to allow even the slightest hint that the war wasn't going in their favor—for example, after the Battle of Midway, which ended in a massive strategic defeat for the Japanese and arguably turned the tide of the war, thousands of Japanese sailors were moved around and prevented from returning home, in order to prevent them from disclosing the truth about the battle's outcome, which the Japanese propaganda machine had touted as a victory in Japan's favor. As the war wore on and more defeats stacked up, the government only redoubled their efforts to depict their military as being all but victorious in every endeavour, and as a result it was rare occurrence that anyone learned about the death of a loved in in battle.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Grave of the Fireflies / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: The adults tell Seita to suck up his pride and go back to his aunt for safety, but he's fourteen and may not be old enough to understand that sometimes you have to screw over your honor/pride just to survive.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Grave of the Fireflies / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Invoked and justified. When an air raid goes off, the aunt just casually says, "Not again", as if it were a minor inconvenience.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_c2e1f423	type	Really Dead Montage
Grave of the Fireflies / int_c2e1f423	comment	Really Dead Montage: An emotionally crippling example for Setsuko. From the start of the montage (if not a bit earlier) to the end of the movie itself... well, let's just say you'll need a box of tissues handy. It doesn't help that the montage lasts about three minutes, with a sadly sweet rendition of "Home Sweet Home" played in the background... by a family that had come through the war completely unscathed. One of the girls even comments that "Even the old record player's still here!" And then, just when you think the worst is over, we cut to the cremation.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Grave of the Fireflies / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Seita dies alone, in the middle of a bustling crowd of people, all of whom avoid him. The death of both children occurs after the war has already ended. Unfortunately, the immediate postwar is little better than wartime: the food shortages are just as bad if not worse, and the internal chaos that follows the Japanese surrender ensures that their plight goes either unnoticed or ignored. Setsuko dies of starvation as Seita is busy preparing a decent meal for her. To add to the irony, she's holding a piece of barely-eaten watermelon in her hand. The reason that Seita and Setsuko are (relatively) unscathed in the initial firebombing that costs their mother her life is that she went to the shelter to seek safety first. Because they can't get to the shelter in time, the two kids are further from harm's way. Seita begins the film running away from an enemy bombing and understandably antagonistic towards those responsible. As desperation sets in he begins running toward bombings when air-raid sirens sound, relying on the chance to loot abandoned homes to provide for his sister and even cheering on a plane as it passes overhead.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Grave of the Fireflies / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Seita finally bringing food to a starving and delirious Setsuko, who even manages to eat a little bit of watermelon. This is quickly dashed as she falls asleep and Seito narrates "she never woke up".
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_c43f8b58	type	Chasing a Butterfly
Grave of the Fireflies / int_c43f8b58	comment	Chasing a Butterfly: Setsuko chases a crab at the beach. Seita and Setsuko enjoy chasing fireflies. Setsuko chases a dragonfly at one point during the Really Dead Montage.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Grave of the Fireflies / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The theatrical poster is a Type 3 case, with a very dark Easter Egg that managed to stay hidden for thirty years. Obscured by the blackness in the background is a B-29 Superfortress, the same kind of bomber which razed the children's hometown and forced them to go on their struggle for survival. This also changes the nature of the "fireflies", which might actually be incendiary pellets raining down from above.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Grave of the Fireflies / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: It is World War II Japan.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Grave of the Fireflies / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Seita himself, who is only doing questionable things (i.e., looting from houses and farms) for the sake of his sister's health and survival.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_d21f3d5d	type	Justified Criminal
Grave of the Fireflies / int_d21f3d5d	comment	Justified Criminal: Seita only steals food and clothing because he has no other way to survive aside from going back to their aunt, as everyone tells him to do.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_d53ad027	type	Cheerful Child
Grave of the Fireflies / int_d53ad027	comment	Cheerful Child: Setsuko throughout the film. Even when she cries, Seita usually (but not always) finds a way to cheer her up.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_d7117f01	type	Angst? What Angst?
Grave of the Fireflies / int_d7117f01	comment	Angst? What Angst?: Invoked by Seita for Setsuko's sake. In spite of everything, he wears a fake smile to try and uplift his sister's spirits. The best example is when he starts doing gymnastics on a bar to try to distract Setsuko from the fact their mother just died. It doesn't work.
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_d8827578	type	Alternate Character Reading
Grave of the Fireflies / int_d8827578	comment	Alternate Character Reading: Rather than using the typical Japanese kanji for firefly in the title (è›�), the word is spelled out phonetically, with the kanji for fire and something hanging down, like a drop of water from a leaf (ç�«åž‚). Some people consider this to be a description of fireflies as "droplets of fire", like fireworks (which can symbolize the impermanence of life in Japanese culture), or like the "drops of fire" used to burn Kobe to the ground, or a reference to the tin of fruit drops that serves as a literal and metaphorical grave of the fireflies. Fireflies themselves also symbolize the impermanence of life, and represent souls of the dead (especially due to war).
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Grave of the Fireflies / int_d8a81f59	type	Starts with Their Funeral
Grave of the Fireflies / int_d8a81f59	comment	Starts with Their Funeral: Such as it was, at any rate. The film opens with Seita's death, and his reunion with his sister in the afterlife.
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