Name: Hotarubi no Mori e
Genre: Romance, Animation, Fantasy
Released: 2011-09-17
Duration: 45 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Izumi Sawada, Hayato Taya, Ayane Sakura, Koki Uchiyama, Shinpachi Tsuji

2011·Romance·45m

7.5

★

One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits...

Directed by Takahiro Omori

supernatural

slice of life

based on manga

spirit

folklore

shoujo

japanese mythology

anime

loving

Rank

#33 in 2011·#1979 overall

Trailer

IMDB

N/A

Cast

Izumi Sawada

Hotaru's Mother (voice)

Hayato Taya

Ryouta (voice)

Ayane Sakura

Hotaru Takegawa (voice)

Koki Uchiyama

Gin (voice)

Shinpachi Tsuji

Hotaru's Grandfather (voice)

Kanehira Yamamoto

Shadow (voice)

Masanori Machida

Tree Hand (voice)

Mami Uchida

Masked Child (voice)

Hiroki Goto

Lion (voice)

Asami Imai

Masked Child (voice)

Crew

Hitoshi Tamura

Director of Photography

Masanori Miyake

Producer

Tomohiro Kishi

Key Animation

Popular Reviews

762 reviews

8.7★ · 09/11/20

maksudnya... apa ya..

sillysum

8.0★ · 06/01/26

ok so a little sad and short but good watch

Rachell Anne

8.0★ · 05/12/26

okay, that hurts… but can we talk about how he literally groomed her? 😀 like I didn’t even realize it back when I first watched it in g7, but looking at it now…

Hazel

4.0★ · 05/07/26

fun story to watch. too compact, plot twist-nya lazy writing.

eljee

2.0★ · 04/30/26

i saw a lot of clips from this movie like 5-6 years ago, and yep, nothing special.
the plot is just umm, i can't even explain it, and the ending is the worst i've seen, like wtf, just because of a fucking kid??