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The hospital fire isn't explicitly shown to be the result of Allied bombing, and bombing of Japanese cities didn't start on a significant scale until 1944.
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* DownerBeginning: The film opens with the death of Mahito's mother, who perishes ([[KilledOffscreen offscreen]]) in a hospital fire after Tokyo is struck by an air raid.
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* DownerBeginning: The film opens with the death of Mahito's mother, who perishes ([[KilledOffscreen offscreen]]) in a hospital fire after Tokyo is struck by an air raid.in Tokyo.
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* MissingMom: Mahito's mother Hisako dies in an air raid in the opening scene of the film. Her body is never recovered from the fire.
* NeverFoundTheBody: {{Invoked}}. The Heron uses this trope as an argument to convince Mahito that Hisako is still alive. [[spoiler:Ultimately, this is a lie. While Hisako's younger self, nicknamed "Himi", is later encountered in the world below the tower, she traveled there from the timeframe of her own childhood. Her adult self truly did perish in the hospital fire caused by the air raid.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: {{Invoked}}. The Heron uses this trope as an argument to convince Mahito that Hisako is still alive. [[spoiler:Ultimately, this is a lie. While Hisako's younger self, nicknamed "Himi", is later encountered in the world below the tower, she traveled there from the timeframe of her own childhood. Her adult self truly did perish in the hospital fire caused by the air raid.]]
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* MissingMom: Mahito's mother Hisako dies in an air raid hospital fire in the opening scene of the film. Her body is never recovered from the fire.
recovered.
* NeverFoundTheBody: {{Invoked}}. The Heron uses this trope as an argument to convince Mahito that Hisako is still alive. [[spoiler:Ultimately, this is a lie. While Hisako's younger self, nicknamed "Himi", is later encountered in the world below the tower, she traveled there from the timeframe of her own childhood. Her adult self truly did perish in the hospitalfire caused by the air raid.fire.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: {{Invoked}}. The Heron uses this trope as an argument to convince Mahito that Hisako is still alive. [[spoiler:Ultimately, this is a lie. While Hisako's younger self, nicknamed "Himi", is later encountered in the world below the tower, she traveled there from the timeframe of her own childhood. Her adult self truly did perish in the hospital
