Cocoon: One Summer of Girlhood

EDIT: I went into greater detail into my thoughts on the special for SCRMBL, go check it out Absolutely brutal portrayal of these schoolgirls, betrayed and tricked by their government and sent to die under the idea of saving a country they never had a choice in defending.…

Alicia Haddick

Something just seems 'off' with this both as an adaptation of a the manga or against the historical backdrop. In 2007 over 100,000 Okinawans protested changes to school textbooks, toning-down the role of the Imperial Japanese Army in ordering/coercing civilian mass…

Junkers5880

I broke out of my cocoon and grew my own wings. But I still can't fly, even with my wings. But even still... I chose to keep on living.

Febbe

Wow! Doomed yuri I said with joys! I was then shot fifty seven times

emiliodepeanuts

cocoon is structured as an excerpt of a larger wartime chronicle, sectioning a particular piece of the struggle and centering on a specific person's minor development. The scope of the one-hour film, while small, establishes its visual identity well enough to distinguish…

Halcyon

poignant and beautiful ‘i just couldn’t bear to be a soldier’

ben

Breve film d'animazione giapponese. Viene affrontato l'orrore della seconda guerra mondiale dal punto di vista di alcune ragazzine, arruolate come infermiere. Il punto forte di questo film è il contrasto tra la dolcezza dei dialoghi e dei momenti tra i protagonisti della…

dimierosimo

I feel like all I did while watching this movie was bawl my eyes out omg

aimee

fire lil anime movie that starts off as a cute movie with some girls livin in a beautiful forest and then it devolves into grave of the fireflies. why u gotta do that to me

foomaj