Don’t Pregame ‘Cocoon—One Summer of Girlhood’ With Studio Ghibli’s ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ If You Hate Crying

GKIDS is lining up its upcoming World War Two anime film, "Cocoon—One Summer of Girlhood," as one half of an essential double feature. Per io9 (Gizmodo), the movie confronts the horrors of war through the bewildered resilience of children trying to make sense of it. The outlet pairs it with Studio Ghibli's "Grave of the Fireflies," the 1988 classic long regarded as one of animation's most devastating war stories.

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