I loved her previous work "Natsume Yuuchinjou" and I was hoping this would be another good anime to pass my time on. I started to watch this because it was written by Yuki Midorikawa. Hope you like my review though ^^ ok so lets get on with it. I am not great at writing reviews, but I am trying to get better so please bare with me on this one. Or you could just go watch Train Wars, at least that has the bonus of being entertaining. And watch Garden of Words if you want a 45 minutes emotional movie about growing up and impossible love. From the same writer Nastume Yuujinchou which is miles better. Just like I said, listen to the soundtrack, because it's probably the only thing I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks, but if you try to hard to make me sad, instead of writing characters I will feel sad about, I'm not going to cry at your super at of nowhere unemotional death scene. The more I think about it, this movie is quite pointless, nothing is developed, all you get is a 45 minute movie about a young girl who likes a spirit and how she gets told 10000 times that her lover is basically as good as dead. There was no buildup, no emotion, it just happened after a weird festival thing that was frankly pointless. Not in a good way like I was surprised, like in the sense that I have no idea why he just died when he did. Even worst is that that ending came out of nowhere. This is where my biggest problem comes from, instead of developing a sweet relationship between an almost immortal spirit and an aging young girl, and have the character that was supposed to live on forever die, thus creating a sad and tragic ending, the movie was basically 45 minutes of being reminded that Gin was going to die. Wow, thanks, after the 4th time you told me I forgot, so thanks for the new heads up random voices from the forest. Maybe she fell in love with Gin because of the time she passed during all her summers with him, but most of the movie is just the writer bashing your head in trying to make SURE your remember that if Gin touches a human he dies. She is as bland as it gets, she boils down to this person saved me thus I have to love them. Hotaru the main character has 2 traits to her, she got lost in the forest, and is in love with the other chraracter, Gin. gives no times for the viewer to get accustomed to them and feel empathy towards them, and no snobbish quote about love can change the fact that the characters in the movie have no personality, and are very forgettable. In this kind of short, emotional movie, the characters have to be easy to get attached to, since the short time of the movies Now for the detail of why I didn't like this movie: good, go watch Natsume's Book of Friends or Garden of Words, both of them way more worth your time then this. If this sounds like something you'll like. It will charm you with it's great visuals and a beautifully composed soundtrack, and that's pretty much it for me. Hotarubi no Mori e is a calm story of love, growing up and the passage of time. According to Japan's Oricon sales chart, Blu-ray disc sets sold well shortly after their release. The sets included bonus content such as illustrations, stickers, brochures, and one of Gin's masks. DVDs and limited edition Blu-ray disc sets were made available in Japan on February 22, 2012. It was also given the Animation Film Award at the 66th Annual Mainichi Film Awards in Japan. The film was also screened at the 2011 Leeds International Film Festival in November and at the Anime Expo convention in Los Angeles on June 30, 2012.įollowing its premiere in Scotland, Hotarubi no Mori e won the festival's Jury Award. In Europe, the movie was shown at the 2011 Scotland Loves Animation festival, twice: in Glasgow and then in Edinburgh. Though initially planned to be first presented in March 2011 at the Anime Contents Expo in Chiba, Japan, the event was canceled due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Edit Background Hotarubi no Mori e premiered in Japanese cinemas on September 17, 2011.
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