Not many people have seen this anime/documentary, and none of them have written a review, so I thought it would be fair to write one.
I discovered this just by scrolling through Madhouse's works looking for interesting shows to watch. I found the premise interesting, and since this was made in the 80's and unknown anime like this generally don't come over legally, I pirated it. I apologize for this.
To my surprise it ended up being a documentary about young girls who died in a bombing during the second world war. Said documentary had animations mixed in about the girls to make them
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Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Girls in Summer Dresses, Natsufuku no Shoujo-tachi: Hiroshima, Shouwa 20-nen 8-gatsu 6-ka
Japanese: 夏服の少女たち
Information
Type:
TV Special
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Aug 7, 1988
Producers:
NHK
Licensors:
None found, add some
Studios:
Madhouse
Source:
Other
Genre:
Drama
Theme:
Historical
Duration:
34 min.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Statistics
Ranked:
#93162
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Popularity:
#13157
Members:
1,297
Favorites:
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This work is an incredible blend of media that uses footage of historical artifacts like journals, letters, clothing, and war footage to tell the stories of a class of young girls who died in the bombings of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.
The story ebbs and flows with footage of the dead children's surviving family members then to animated scenes based on content found within their journals leading up to the event. You watch as their elderly parents, wrinkled and hobbling cry as they cling to what's left of their torn apart uniforms, talk to them at their graves, and play a song they composed for ... |