Hotarubi no Mori e

is a Shōjo manga. It was written by Yuki Midorikawa. It was shown in the *LaLa DX* magazine in July 2002. After, in July 2003, the manga was recreated as tankōbon short stories. The manga is about a girl called Hotaru and her friend Gin. Gin is a young man that wears a mask. They met when Hotaru was six in a forest. Hotaru learnt that if she touched Gin, he would disappear forever. Hotaru comes back every summer so that she can spend time with Gin. Many people think that *Hotarubi no Mori e* was a starting point for another book that was also written by Yuki Midorikawa. That was called ''Natsume's Book of Friends''.

An anime movie that had the same name as the manga was created. It was 44 minutes and it was released in 2011. It was made in a studio called Brain's Base. The director of the movie was Takahiro Omori. The main voice actors of the movie were Ayane Sakura and Kōki Uchiyama. Some of the music in the movie was made by Makoto Yoshimori. Many people enjoyed the movie and many people were big fans for a long time after the movie was released. The movie came out on 17 September 2011. It was showed at the Scotland Loves Animation , the Leeds International Film Festival, Anime Expo, and the 66th Mainichi Film Awards.

The movie came out on blu-ray and DVD in Japan. This was on 22 February 2012. An extra story that was called  also came out. This came out in a special version of the manga. The special manga and the blu-ray were on number 13 of the Oricon list. People that reviewed the movie said that the movie was very good. They said that it was a  and simple movie. and Makoto Shinkai. She said that she wanted to write a harder story when she had more experience in writing manga. She wrote it before she thought she would because she was scared that she would lose the idea. There were not too many issues while she was writing even though she had many different ideas. Midorikawa wanted to draw many different scenes in the story. She wanted to do a forest in the summer that had a lot of shadows. This was because she wanted to add more colours in the manga. She also wanted to do a calm summer festival and Gin's mask. In both of these stories, there are many differences between the characters. Many things stop their relationships and how they understand each other. The movie was  in the beginning of 2011. The movie's producer (Shuko Yokoyama) said that the movie was supposed to be an original video animation. If it was made as an original video animation, it would not be released in theatres. But another movie, ''Natsume's Book of Friends* was very popular and it allowed them to make a movie. This was because the same people that made *Hotarubi no Mori e* also made *Natsume's Book of Friends''. The movie was made by the studio Brain's Base. It was directed by Takahiro Omori and it starred Japanese voice actors Ayane Sakura as Hotaru and Kōki Uchiyama as Gin. Satou and Yokoyama worked with each other a lot before this. Not that many people worked on the movie. This was because the movie was very short and made only in Japan. Anime are usually made in different countries.

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## Other websites
* *Hotarubi no Mori e* anime official website 
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