Hotarubi no Mori e

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Hotarubi no Mori e
Original title 蛍 火 の 杜 へ
transcription Hotarubi no Mori e
genre Fantasy , romance, shōjo
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Yuki Midorikawa
publishing company Hakusensha
magazine LaLa DX
First publication 2002
expenditure 1
Anime movie
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2011
Studio Brain's Base
length 44 minutes
Director Takahiro Ōmori
script Takahiro Ōmori
music Makoto Yoshimori

Hotarubi no Mori e ( Japanese 蛍 火 の 杜 へ , eng. "In the forest of glow-worm light") is a manga by Yuki Midorikawa and an anime film based on it from the Brain's Base studio from 2011. The work can be divided into the genres Fantasy and Classify romance. Hotarubi no Mori e is the title of a manga short story ( One Shot ) as well as an anthology of three other short stories that have nothing to do with each other in terms of content.

content

Hanauta Nagaruru

In Hanauta Nagaruru ( 花唄流るる , "listen a Flower Song") is about a young girl named Shima ( 島 ), which always hears from an empty house beautiful guitar melodies. She wonders who is playing there and finds out that one of her schoolmates plays the guitar. One day he is looking for his guitar and she tells him where his guitar is because she saw it before. Fujimura ( 藤 村 ) is quite a bully and despite warnings from her friends, she later falls in love with him. Shima investigates the noises and finds out that the guitar noises come from the girl Noguchi ( 野 口 美 可 子 ), who is taught to play the guitar by Fujimura. Fujimura himself doesn't play because his left hand is broken and it would hurt him too much. In a fight Shima throws herself in front of him and wants to confess her feelings to him, but she is silent at the crucial moment. A day later she stands in front of the window again and hears the melody, but she can hear that Fujimura is playing. He has a dialogue with Noguchi, which she overhears by chance. He says he would like to teach Shima, but until Shima can play the song, he would like to go out with Noguchi. The song symbolizes Fujimura's feelings and playing for understanding. The last picture shows a crying Shima. The season is spring.

Hotarubi no Mori e

The setting is the Kamishikimi Kumanoimasu Shrine in Takamori-machi

In Hotarubi no Mori e ( 蛍火の杜へ , "in the forest of Glüchwürmchenlichts") is about the six-year Hotaru ( 竹川蛍 ) travels every summer to her uncle. It gets lost once in the nearby forest. She meets the ghostly gin ( ギ ン ) who wears a fox mask and who helps her out of her situation. She learns that gin disappears upon contact with a person. A deep friendship is slowly building up between the two of them and Hotaru visits him every summer. The time flies by until she is in high school. Both go to a festival of forest spirits and have a great evening. Hotaru explains to Gin that as she gets older she will find a job near the forest so that she can see it more often. Gin puts his mask on her and kisses her without touching her skin. When a child stumbles, gin helps him up, but since the child is human, gin begins to dissolve. To grant him his last wish, she hugs him until he dissolves completely. She also promised him that she would never forget him and took his mask with her.

Kurukuru Ochiba

In Kurukuru Ochiba ( くるくる落ち葉 , "falling autumn leaves") is about the girl Tsubaki ( 煙巻椿 ), which makes every effort her childhood friend Kaede Kirisato ( 霧里楓 to protect). She feels obliged to do so, because as a child, Kaede was supposed to be kidnapped by rich people once (but she was able to prevent this). One day, when Tsubaki puts himself in danger again for him, Kaede threatens her to end the friendship if she doesn't stop getting him to worry about her. For one day they don't talk to each other, on that day Tsubaki sees him talking to a girl who is the total opposite of her, and during this conversation he laughs. She runs near a river and realizes that if this endangers the friendship, she wants to keep protecting him in order to be by his side. The next day, Kaede is threatened (people want a lot of money from him). Tsubaki beats up the brawlers and Kaede strokes her head as a token of his gratitude. Tsubaki runs away because she realizes that protecting should only be an excuse for herself to be with him. A wild hunt through the school begins, which ends with Kaede telling her that he can never laugh in front of her because he is always afraid of being abandoned by her for someone stronger. In the end, they both realize that they love each other. The season is autumn.

Hibi, Fukaku

In Hibi, Fukaku ( ひ び 、 深 く , "crack, deepening") tells in a review of letters from the two close siblings Ritsu ( 律 ) and Sō ( 蒼 ). Their parents first got divorced, with sister Ritsu staying with her mother and brother Sō with his father, and then got back together after eight years. Through the separation, their sibling relationship broke up and when they both meet again they indirectly confess their love. When it looks like a happy ending , in order not to destroy their family, the brother leaves the parental home again and leaves them with a pile of letters. Her last hope is that she will not forget "the feeling some call love".

Anime

The film was released in 2011. It is only about the title-giving second chapter. At first, the producer Shiko Yokoyama wanted to turn the anime into an original video animation , but the work was released in 2011 as a 44-minute film. Takahiro Ōmori is responsible for the direction and script. The character design was created by Akira Takata and the artistic direction was Yukihiro Shibutani. The music was composed by Makoto Yoshimori and the title song Natsu o Miteita ( 夏 を 見 て い た ) comes from Shizuru Ōtaka. Hotaru is voiced by Ayane Sakura and gin by Kōki Uchiyama .

The film premiered on July 30, 2011, and in the same year it was at the Scotland Loves Animation film festival . Mighty Media has licensed the anime for a Chinese translation. In 2012 Hotarubi no Mori e was shown at the American Anime Expo . The film was also released in Japan in 2012 on DVD and BluRay.

reception

The manga volume with the four stories sold over 40,000 times in the first week of the 2011 re-release. The film won the Jury Award at the Scotland Loves Animation Film Festival. In January 2012 he also won the prize for the best animated film at the Mainichi Eiga Concours .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japan Film Society to Screen Hotarubi no Mori e Film at Anime Expo. Anime News Network, June 21, 2012, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, September 5-11. Anime News Network, September 14, 2011, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  3. ↑ "ス ペ シ ャ ル" [Special - "Jury Prize" (hotarubi.info)]. Aniplex, October 8, 2011, accessed October 11, 2014 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ "コ ン ク ー ル の 歴 史 第 66 回 毎 日 映 画 コ ン ク ー ル" [History of the 66th Mainichi Film Competition]. Mainichi News, January 2012, accessed October 11, 2014 (Japanese).

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