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Jun 19, 2020 · As he walks out, Seita learns that Japan has lost the war. With most of Japan’s navy gone, the boy’s father is presumably dead as he was a captain at the Imperial Japanese Navy. Seita returns to shelter with food and finds Setsuko on her last dying breath.
Set in the city of Kobe, Japan, it tells the story of siblings and war orphans Seita and Setsuko, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of the Pacific War.
May 25, 2022 · Seita decides to burn her body, and carries her ashes around with him in a tin can, along with a picture of their father, who most likely died during the war.
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Seita has dark brown hair cut short and dark brown eyes. He wears an off white Captain's cap or school uniform cap with a black viser and a beige Kokumin-fuku jacket with a name tag, white tank top underneath and beige pants with leg wrapping on his shins and black ankle lace boots.
Seita was born in year 1931, ten years before his sister, Setsuko Yokokawa. During the Second World War, Seita's father was fighting with the Japanese navy, leaving Seita, Setsuko, and their mother to live in Kobe. During the American invasion of Japan in year 1945, Kobe was destroyed in a firebombing attack. Though Seita and Setsuko were able to e...
The name Seita means "clear, pure, clean" (清) (sei) and "thick, big, great" (太) (ta). This relates to his spirit form that becomes neat and tidy and healthy at the end of the film.
Seita's father, a Captain in the Imperial Navy, privately reveals to him that the war is going badly for Japan, telling him that he must now look after his mother and sister as he will soon be deployed, and that he is willing to die in the Emperor's service.
Oct 6, 2020 · The cold colors in the first scene signifies the death of Seita, the main character, and stops his suffering. He can finally reach happiness, and simply reunites with his sister and the carefree mentality he can finally have.
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May 7, 2022 · Grave of the Fireflies is a Japanese anime drama movie published in 1988 through Studio Ghibli and discusses the story of fourteen-year-old Seita and four-year-old Setsuko, who are trying to survive in Japan in 1945 during the second world war.