Hotaru Morino, you have passed away. You are no longer in this world.
Mom! Hey! Mom--
The bus that you were on got into an accident.
The deceased person
can not move on to Heaven until they resolve their three lingering attachments.
You have a time limit of 49 days to resolve your lingering attachments.
On the 50th day, it will be treated as a failure and
you will be a ghost bound to this world.
Your first target is Taki Fukushima.
- Grandma! - Telling you the names of the people...
That's unbelievable. What I heard was that
there should only be one lingering attachment that you have to resolve.
That guide you spoke of
is suspicious.
Are you sure that he's not an impostor?
Kuro is an impostor?
There are wicked ghosts
that will eat someone young
and clueless like you, Hotaru.
And I heard that they could live for
several hundreds of years.
Now that you mention it, Kuro said he was 200 years old!
So it really is true!
I don't get
- ...anything anymore. - It's fine.
I will protect you in place of
your grandma!
Thank you.
Hotaru, you really do still have the smell of a human still lingering on you.
It smells so good.
Huh?
Hotaru, get away from her.
Kuro...
Hurry and come here.
Hey, you, what did you do?
That's quite a rude manner of speaking!
I won't hand over Hotaru to you!
I guess it can't be helped.
Ms. Takemoto!
What are you doing...
to an elder!?
Don't be deceived.
Hotaru, help me.
It's weird that you can even see her, don't you think?
There's no way that humans can see us.
Then what about Ms. Takemoto?
I've already explained it to you.
She's a ghost bound to this world.
A ghost bound to this world...
Kuro?
You just follow around anyone so carelessly.
I thought I told you to come back right away if you weren't able to see Taki Fukushima.
What about Ms. Takemoto?
Did you do something to her?
I gave her a deserved punishment.
But Ms. Takemoto didn't seem like that bad of a person to me...
You don't need to add "Ms." to the name of a ghost that tried to eat you!
If she hadn't have met me, she wouldn't have suffered that fate though...
Just how much of a kind person are you?
Oh yeah, I heard that my grandma passed away.
That can't be true, can it?
I was able to confirm that Taki Fukushima
was released from the hospital and returned home.
You went and looked for her for me?
I guess.
Thank you.
I'm glad. I want my grandma to live a long life.
This again.
Stop worrying about other people and focus on resolving your lingering attachments!
Hey! Are you listening?
[When One Day I Will Sleep]
What are you doing?
Wasn't there the sound of an alarm clock just now?
I don't know.
Where is this?
I'm borrowing a model house.
There aren't very many humans that go in and out from here so it's convenient.
Oh, this is nice!
What's wrong?
So, it wasn't a dream...
I truly did die...
Of course. Hurry up and get out of bed.
You should have recovered enough of your strength by now.
Just five more minutes!
There are only 9 more days left!
But you said that I had 19 days left yesterday!
You've slept for 10 days since then!
That much!?
[Fukushima]
Why aren't you going in?
Can my grandma see me?
When you are resolving your lingering attachment, she can see you and also talk with you.
However, once its all resolved she'll forget everything.
I thought I explained it to you already.
I remember.
Then that's good.
Grandma really is in her own home!
Did you think I was lying?
Kuro, you don't have to grumble about every single thing!
Ahh, the smell of Grandma's house!
It's been so while since I've felt this.
Humans sure do remember strange things!
Grandma!
Grandma, can you see me? Can you hear me?
I can see you quite well, Hotaru!
I'm so glad I could finally see you, Grandma!
Thank you for coming to see me, Hotaru!
It seems that I wanted to see you again one more time.
Hotaru,
ever since you were little,
you often came to visit me!
Back then, I wanted to eat the inarizushi that you made so I came over often. (T/N: inarizushi = sushi rice packed into fried tofu)
Oh, is that so?
It was really good.
I'm sorry that I wasn't able to
make any more for you.
I can't eat any more anyway.
Hey, Hotaru.
What is it, Grandma?
I want you to
take care of yourself, Hotaru.
Well, you're always too nice to
those around you.
- Yahh! - Hey!
All right, everyone, it's done!
Eat up!
Come!
- Hotaru, come and eat together! - Okay!
No more?
Oh!
Delicious!
Hotaru, you're not going to eat any?
No.
How lucky!
Bye-bye!
Are you all full?
Did you eat a lot?
- See you later! - Bye!
Hey! Wake up!
Hotaru, you didn't eat any, did you?
See? Look.
What do you think of your sad face?
It's ugly.
You need to hurry and smile!
Hotaru,
you were a crying child that was too kind.
Even now.
More than your own self,
are you thinking of others?
Huh?
I want you
to be smiling and happy, Hotaru.
Hotaru,
will you take this?
I can't take it.
I know that this mirror is important to you.
I want you to take it, Hotaru.
Just your thoughtful feelings alone are enough for me.
I can't use it anymore, so you hold onto it, Grandma.
In the real world, it will still remain as is.
Then I'll accept it. Thank you.
I'm so happy that you will accept it!
Hotaru,
can you promise me that you will
take care of yourself even more?
Grandma, I'm already dead.
So...
I want you to promise me!
Okay, I promise.
Why?
Kuro!
Where's Grandma?
You resolved your lingering attachments to Taki Fukushima.
Checkmate.
Is it over?
I can't see Grandma anymore?
Once your lingering attachment ends,
it's a rule that it's a parting for eternity.
Your next target is...
Hey, are you listening?
This is what it means to resolve my lingering attachments?
It's nothing but sadness...
You don't have time to worry about such things!
You have two more lingering attachments that you have to resolve!
If you don't, you can't move on to Heaven. I said that before, right?
- Where are you going? - I'm going home.
Your parents are the targets of your lingering affections.
- It doesn't matter, I want to see their faces! - You can't.
- Why not? There are just some things that you can't do.
I don't get what you're saying! Let go of me.
What are you looking at?
Nothing really...
Are you talking to me?
Of course, there's no one else here.
Umm...
I'm the same as you.
A ghost.
Something like that.
How long has it been since you'd died?
It's been about 40 days.
How about you?
I don't know.
You didn't ask?
That person's been running this whole time.
Ren is a real track and field maniac, after all.
Was he your boyfriend or something?
He was my friend.
"Unrequited love is
always the greatest form of love."
Putting on airs like you're a young girl deep into her literature again?
The way you say that, isn't it a bit old-sounding?
You should at least read some novels once in a while as well, Ren.
In my case,
books are only just a substitute for sleeping aids!
That's just like you, Ren!
What's that? What are you reading?
A shortened version of Dazai's book, "Chance." (T/N: Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author)
"Chance?"
Lend it to me next time.
You'll really read it?
You're the one who just told me to read novels from time to time, right?
That's true, but...
It's a promise then, okay?
Once I finish reading it, okay?
It's fine; we're friends after all.
Thank you.
Friends...
That's right. The world's most comfortable
and yet
cruel word.
Were you able to lend it to him? That short novel.
I was fine just watching him.
Why?
Was he able to see me?
Maybe he's one of your lingering attachments.
It's great that at least you know who the target of your lingering attachments is.
I can't remember at all.
Did your guide not tell you?
It seems guides these days are quite kind.
- Twenty years ago that wasn't the case. - Twenty years ago?
Oh, I'm a ghost that's bounded to this world.
I guess I'm scary, right?
Sorry...
It's fine. I'm used to it.
Well then, good luck.
Wait!
In this river?
Yeah, I was trying to pick this up and got dragged downriver.
Even though I was the one who wrote on it, I don't remember anything at all.
That's one of those Tanabata paper strips, right? (T/N: Tanabata is a festival in Japan where people write their wishes on small strips of paper.)
You haven't written anything yet?
How about you, Shiori?
Your name's wrong. Is that a pen-name?
You don't know about it, Hotaru?
Tanabata's Keiko.
There's a bridge that you always use on the way to school, right?
- That river- - Hold on!
Is this going to be a scary story?
- If it is, I don't want to hear it. - Then I won't mention it.
Actually it's bothering me!
You sure are troublesome!
You can talk about the non-scary parts just a bit!
- Just a bit! - It's probably not that scary.
I mean, when you start it off with that kind of story...
On Tanabata, on the way to this shrine,
while trying to pick up her paper strip that she dropped in the river,
she ended up getting pulled downriver and died.
How long ago was that?
Probably before we were born.
So like, 20 or 30 years ago?
Then, just like this,
if you write the same wish as Keiko
and hang it up in place of her, actually...
Actually?
Your own wish will come true, apparently!
Keiko, please make my wish come true!
Are you Keiko?
I knew it!
I know the wish that you wrote!
What do you mean?
Just when I thought that it was strange that you weren't coming back home,
I find that you've been seized by another ghost bound to this world!
Don't come! Keiko is my friend!
Did you forget that you were fooled by that bound ghost back in the hospital?
Without a doubt, she's trying to eat you in the end.
That's not true!
Get out of the way. I don't want to harm you.
Well, most humans that see ghosts for the first time act like that.
I thought that once you died, you could easily be flying up towards the sky.
Are you really okay with that?
What you're doing is only just self-satisfaction.
I can't forgive you.
I don't need to move on to Heaven.