To the Forest of Firefly Lights

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to the forest of firefly lights

It's so beautiful and light hearted I loved it. It literally made me cry. It shows love that is sincere and away from everything just pure love that represents life is just to live the moments with the people you care about. It resonates with ever bit of my soul and my whole body is feeling like having butterflies and goosebumps all over. I'm such a weird kind of human...

Hotarubi no mori e

🖤🖤🖤

Bangla bhasha

To the Forest of Firefly Lights

I really thought this short was more interesting like we get to see a little girl being lost in the woods and meet up with a spirit guy who she spent a lot of years with. As Hotaru gets older, the two of them develop feelings for each other. I was so bummed that Gin touched a human kid and had to disappear because he and Hotaru really loved each other. I nearly did have a lump in my throat with the pair of them finally hugging one another and he completely vanished. I was gutted for Hotaru like she really did love him for who he is, not what he is. I have to say as well in this short at the beginning, there was a lot of beating and one name calling to a child which I didn't appreciate. However the distraction with Gin and Hotaru realtionship did help me not be so pissed off with the guys abusing a child. At least it wasn't out of badness with this anime but it is kinda disturbing and unfortunately realistic so I can understand some people would feel rather uneasy watching this anime. Really good anime, I quite enjoyed it and like for a 45 minute anime, it did the job good 8/10!

How about we see Hotarubi No Mori E (2002) from a different perspective? Hotaru is suffering from melancholia same as Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Ayanami Rei had no soul, thus she was sad without knowing why she was sad. Here, Hotaru is dejected, distanced from the real world without knowing why. She wants to understand the cause of her remoteness, why she wants to escape reality, why she wants to touch Gin. Gin is not a real person but a memory. Remember the two children who ran across them in the forest? Saw the similarity between them? The same mask. A mask that hides the identity. A touch that can erase an existence. The moment she understands the cause of her detachment from people, it will disappear. But in the end, it wasn't the touch but the original memory, that erased it. Those two children were them in the past. The forest here is her memory, perhaps on a deeper level even life. Just that instead of the sea of blood, there is a forest of fireflies (again, doesn't it remind of Hotaru No Haka (1988)?) The same boy and girl as The End of Evangelion. Here, the context is much deeper than it seems. Touching your dejection can cause it to disappear, but we don't want that. We don't want to know the cause of our origin, we want to escape reality as much as we can. The ageless love with melancholia. Obviously this film has several different perspectives, from feminism to fragility to desire, but this particular perspective arrested me and made me think how a simple film could be this deep. My original reaction to the film was: Gosh! What a beautiful, deep, resonant movie! Cherish every moment of it! <3 Depth - 2/2 Importance - 2/2 Relevance - 2/2 Artistry - 2/2 Imagination - 2/2 Total - 10/10 And yes, it was most definitely tear-jerking, although I didn't really cry. Somewhat mesmerized by the sheer beauty of it. Definitely the most beautiful anime of all time. Seriously, whoever made it, kudos! Arigato for this gem! <3 P.S.: If you wish to know more about the rating scheme above, check out my other review.

This is a beautiful movie ,movie deserves all the praise it gets ,must watch .