[Machine Translation] Following the animation film "Grave of the Fireflies" (directed by Isao Takahata in 1988), which moved the whole country, this animated version of the same title from the "War Fairy Tales" series written by Akiyuki Nosaka, which won the "Peabody Award," the Pulitzer Prize of broadcasting, in 2003! The series was aired on TV Asahi stations around Japan on the anniversary of the end of the war in 2004. The sad events that unfolded during the war are told as children's stories, conveying to children and adults alike the preciousness of peace that must never be forgotten. The animation is combined with illustrations drawn by Seitaro Kuroda, an artist who participated in the "War Fairy Tales" film project with Akiyuki Nosaka. The creative activities of the two artists have been talked about in newspapers and on TV! The animation is produced by Shin-Ei Animation, a company that has continued to produce high-quality images for "Crayon Shin-chan" and "Doraemon". --There was a whale named Kuusuke off the coast of an island in the south of Japan. Koo-suke is very worried about his oversized body and has difficulty getting along with girls. However, he falls in love with a Japanese submarine, thinking it is a whale. On board the submarine is Kota, a boy who is too short to express his feelings to girls because of his short stature. He was once a boy who was rescued by Kuusuke when he fell into the sea. As the enemy destroyer is approaching, the single-minded Coo-suke is determined to save Kota again...