Natsufuku no Shoujo-tachi

Synopsis

In 1945, the second- and third-year students of a Hiroshima girls' school are sent to work in war factories. The remaining 220 first-year students become the only teenagers in a nearly empty town, doing their best to keep a sense of ordinary life amid the difficulties of war. Everything changes forever on August 7 when an American bomber appears. This story was broadcast on the 43rd anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing as a tribute to "the girls who perished in the atomic blast."

Background

Based on the diaries left by the students of Dai-ichi Hiroshima Prefectural Girls High School, the program illustrates their fleeting youthful days and how they had felt joy in becoming high school students even in a time of war with animated scenes, while documenting the profound sorrow of the bereaved families.