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“Okinawan schoolgirls forced into wartime nursing flee death orders, struggling to survive their island's transformation into battlefield.”
Cocoon: Aru Natsu no Shoujo-tachi yori
cocoon ～ある夏の少女たちより～
7.42
2,429 rank · 7,709 viewers · 18 favorites
Drama
Historical
Josei
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Synopsis
Okinawan schoolgirls forced into wartime nursing flee death orders, struggling to survive their island's transformation into battlefield.
San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordered to die for their country, the remaining members of the group escape only to face the harsh environment of a tropical paradise that has become a hellish battlefield. (Source: MAL News)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 13 sampled reviews
6.8
/10
What 13 viewers settled on.
83%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 6
σ 1.41
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.41 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.2 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 0.15
Running avg · Apr 2025 → Apr 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I enjoyed the anime. Though my gripes are similar to my gripes with Library Wars, and that's the censorship. Of course, there's still some depictions that show Japan in a bad light, with the words...”
- 8 “Do not let the warm and soft ghibli like visuals lull you into a false sense of safety. This is a hauntingly bittersweet story about the brutality of war and the quiet creeping devastation it...”
- 8 “Cocoon is an hour-long TV special brought to us by a slew of ex-Ghibli animators and a director who’s worked extensively with Naoko Yamada, and boy does that show in the final product. The Ghibli...”
Verbosity
Short · 46%
Medium · 23%
Long · 31%
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- Format 1 × 60′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 00m all episodes
- Aired Mar 2025 – ongoing
- Source Tv special media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-24447 catalog
Produced by
- NHK Producer
- NHK Enterprises Producer