This work is an incredible blend of media that uses footage of historical artifacts like journals, letters, clothing, and war footage to tell the stories of a class of young girls who died in the bombings of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The story ebbs and flows with footage of the dead children's surviving family members then to animated scenes based on content found within their journals leading up to the event. You watch as their elderly parents, wrinkled and hobbling cry as they cling to what's left of their torn apart uniforms, talk to them at their graves, and play a song they composed forwhen they might meet again before knowing of their death. It is truly tragic and such a beautiful way to personify the words on paper and help people understand the depth of loss from Hiroshima. Watching them die on screen broke me in a way I'm not sure how to recover from if I am being honest. They don't make anime like this anime, but I wish that they did. I needed to watch this.