War is hell, especially for children

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2012)

Finally decided to write a review after reading other peoples reviews for past few years because this animation deserves it. I won't include the plot in my review since almost every other reviews contains brief plot.
First of all, this is the second anime that actually made someone like me to cry (first one was Clannad, which I recommend all anime fans to watch, also I think I should note that not a single movie made me cry, although Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence almost did).
There were many beautiful, happy and sad scenes in this anime, but I'll point out few that made me drop tears:
1. When Seita came back to the shelter they were living and find his sister Setsuka trying to eat a marble thinking that's a fruit droplet(most likely due to hallucination caused by her disease) and dies after saying "Thank you". It seemed me to that Setsuka's consciousness became clear for a moment before her death and the "thank you" means "Thank you for caring for me all this time brother, you've done more than enough", also it's so sad that Seita didn't seem to realize this meaning of his little sister's last words.
2. The scenes before Setsuka's cremation, about her, playing around the shelter alone waiting for his brother to come, trying to overcome her loneliness and sadness unconsciously by keeping her mind occupied, even playing paper-scissor-rock with her own reflection on water was so unbearably sad to watch.
This is my very first review and I'm not a native speaker who learned basic English from subbed animations and movies, so I bet my review is quite poor, but I hope people will understand my point and find it a little helpful