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Hotaru no Haka
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Giovanni no Shima
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Extreme circumstances invokes the true human nature in our hearts. Let that be kindness, bitterness or perhaps any other emotions and the consequences that follows. In just the first few minutes of the films, they managed to show an already clear difference between them. Giovanni no Shima beginning on a clear, bright sky while Hotaru no Haka begins in darkly lit places filled with despair. Though both films does show how there is a brighter side to everything, Giovanni no Shima has a different sweetness that Hotaru no Haka lacks. The sweetness or perhaps bitterness to be able to face ethnic differences. Both films being
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Recommended by FatefulLove
Both movies take place at the end of World War II (1945) and the story follows the struggle of two siblings in times of war. The two stories can be very dramatic and depressing (especially Grave of the Fireflies), but they also have moments of happiness and hope. Both movies offer a different perspective of the aftermath, since the story in Grave of the Fireflies takes place in the city of Kobe and it begins with the firebombing of the city by the U.S.A. army, whereas the story in Giovanni’s Island takes place in the island of Shikotan, an island that in 1945 became
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Both stories are about 2nd world war.
Both have a story between two siblings.
Both have huge feeling waves.
Both beautiful and dramatic movies.
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Giovanni's Island and Grave of the Fireflies have a lot in common.
The main characters are brothers who are to survive during the era of the second world war. So the vibes of these two anime are similar.
If you like Grave of the Fireflies, I'm sure you'll like Giovanni's Island.
World War II is probably one, if not the most, talked period in modern times, so much that one can get tired of it. However, most of this is because it's always the same story, from the same perspective, at least here in the west.
What makes Grave of the Fireflies and Giovanni's island interesting is that they tell the story we know from the perspective of the losers. While they differ on what part of the war they portrait (Grave of the Fireflies covers the endgame and Giovanni's island covers the post-war situation), they both manage to tell the story of how the Japanese side
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