The 1988 anime film Grave of the Fireflies is now available for download in various formats, including:
The promise of green finally arrived with a spring that cracked the ash. Wild shoots came up between the cobbles and a young family returned to put a washing line between two blackened posts. The town rebuilt slowly, as if it had forgotten the exact shape of things and was relearning them by touch. The map in their mother’s tin had begun to fray at the edges; someone must have borrowed it because the tin held now only a small stack of letters—messages that never found their way home.