#Hotarubi no mori e gogoanime movie#

#Hotarubi no mori e gogoanime movie#

Maybe she fell in love with Gin because of the time she passed during all her summers with him, but most of the movie is just the writer bashing your head in trying to make SURE your remember that if Gin touches a human he dies. She is as bland as it gets, she boils down to this person saved me thus I have to love them. Hotaru the main character has 2 traits to her, she got lost in the forest, and is in love with the other chraracter, Gin. gives no times for the viewer to get accustomed to them and feel empathy towards them, and no snobbish quote about love can change the fact that the characters in the movie have no personality, and are very forgettable. In this kind of short, emotional movie, the characters have to be easy to get attached to, since the short time of the movies Now for the detail of why I didn't like this movie: good, go watch Natsume's Book of Friends or Garden of Words, both of them way more worth your time then this. If this sounds like something you'll like. It will charm you with it's great visuals and a beautifully composed soundtrack, and that's pretty much it for me. Hotarubi no Mori e is a calm story of love, growing up and the passage of time. According to Japan's Oricon sales chart, Blu-ray disc sets sold well shortly after their release. The sets included bonus content such as illustrations, stickers, brochures, and one of Gin's masks. DVDs and limited edition Blu-ray disc sets were made available in Japan on February 22, 2012. It was also given the Animation Film Award at the 66th Annual Mainichi Film Awards in Japan.

The film was also screened at the 2011 Leeds International Film Festival in November and at the Anime Expo convention in Los Angeles on June 30, 2012.įollowing its premiere in Scotland, Hotarubi no Mori e won the festival's Jury Award. In Europe, the movie was shown at the 2011 Scotland Loves Animation festival, twice: in Glasgow and then in Edinburgh. Though initially planned to be first presented in March 2011 at the Anime Contents Expo in Chiba, Japan, the event was canceled due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Edit Background Hotarubi no Mori e premiered in Japanese cinemas on September 17, 2011.