# Fireflies

This short animated video is a promotional film for the Japanese fiction novel series "Fireflies". "Fireflies (Hotaru-no-Mure)" is a action-packed thriller about an ancient underground orphanage that secretly spawns deadly assasins known only as "Koma". Kitami, a normal fourteen year-old girl accidentally witnesses a Koma killing someone in the woods. Now she is the target of the orphanage --- and the only person who can save her is Eiji, the unwilling, shy boy that sits next to her at school. "Fireflies" official website (Japanese) studioetcetera.com/hotaru/ ほたるの群れ

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 2012
- By: Kenji Kawasaki
- Genres: Animation
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Fireflies_201703)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/Fireflies_201703?play=1)