Everything but your average cartoon!

Rating: 10/10 (7 May 2018)

It is not called the saddest animated movie for nothing.
That's because it deals with themes we normally stay away from in our daily lives, the cost of war and the destruction of our lives together. I bet war veterans would cry their eyes out if one of them was even able to sit through it.
The relationship between our two main characters is so real and so strong it just makes you care about them and feel their pain when they go through their suffering in WW2 Japan, because even if Japan were allies of Nazi Germany, the population never asked for it and certainly never deserved the nuclear bombs dropped on them (no spoiler, just historical retrospect).
I think Grave of the Fireflies deserve all the recognition it can get, because it proves that animation is not just for kids. It is definitely too real and depressing for younger viewers, but should be viewed by everyone capable of understanding the horrors of war.