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Isao Takahata(1935–2018) was a the postwar ruins generation who spent his childhood during the war period and survived the chaotic period after the defeat. He survived an air raid in Okayama when he was nine years old, but this experience is projected on Grave of the Fireflies an animated novel of the same name by Akira Nosaka(1930-2015). After the historic turning point of defeat, Japan reconstructed and developed in a wave of change, and Isao Takahata and Akiyuki Nosaka, who survived these times, skillfully fictionalized their own experiences in the world of novels and anime, respectively, and created them as works. It is noteworthy that Isao Takahata’s film was released in 1988, and there is a gap of about 20 years since 1967 when Nosaka’s novel was first published. 1988 marked the end of the Showa period(1926-1989). This study revealed the background of the novel, which was weathered, what was the intention of reviving it as an animation in the 1980s.　It is a work that, while representing the tragedy of war, simultaneously illuminates the contradictions inherent in our current era.