History FanFic / LightOfTheFirefliesTrilogy

* IllGirl: Setsuko in Part 1: Survival, as she weakens from malnutrition. [[spoiler: Unlike in the film, she gets better.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** Yuki's leg is injured by a bullet from a plane during Part 1. She is treated for it, but the damage has already been done. In Part 3 she mentions that she cannot run due to her injured leg, and in the final chapter Seita mentions that it got worse as time went on.
** One of the storylines in Part 3 involves Seita getting ill with tuberculosis as a result of poor air conditions at the steelworks.
** In Part 3, Yuki remarks that even if Seita returns from the hospital that day, it doesn't follow he will be back at work the following day.
** The house that Seita and his family move into receives no PlotArmor - in the epilogue, Seita reveals it was affected by the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. As the house was made of wood and not built to withstand earthquakes, it falls apart and is then burnt by fires from the city.

The trilogy was completed, but as of 2018, all parts of the story have been deleted.

** The house that Seita and his family move into receives no PlotArmor - it is affected by the Great Hanshin Earthquake and as it is made of wood falls apart and is then burnt by fires from the city.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6408714/1/Light-of-the-Fireflies-Part-1-Survival Light of the Fireflies Part 1: Survival]]

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6663065/1/Light-of-the-Fireflies-Part-2-Love Light of the Fireflies Part 2: Love]]

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7067366/1/Light-of-the-Fireflies-Part-3-Endurance Light of the Fireflies Part 3: Endurance]]

The trilogy was completed and all three stories added up to 118 chapters. However, as of 2018, parts 2 and 3 were removed as the author was not satisfied with them regarding them as OldShame.

* RealityEnsues: Yuki's leg is injured by a bullet from a plane during Part 1. She recovers from it, but the damage has already been done. In Part 3 she mentions that she cannot run due to her injured leg, and in the final chapter Seita mentions that it got worse as time went on.

* ArtisticLicense: In Part 2, Setsuko's school follows the Western school year which starts in autumn and finishes at the beginning of summer. In Japan, the new school year begins in the spring. Averted in Part 3 where the school follows the Japanese school year.

* BabiesEverAfter: The final chapter of Part 3 was an epilogue that included [[spoiler: Setia's children growing up and having children of their own.]]

** In Part 2, Seita overhears Yuki singing a song called "Middle of a Muddle", which was a deleted song from ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}''. Another chapter also features Seita and Setsuko singing the opening lines from "Stroll", the opening theme from ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''.
** In Part 3, Seita recounts to his children a pregnant Yuki's obsession with pineapple, only for Yuki to have moved on to something else by the time Seita finds one. This was based on a scene in ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' where the family gets a pineapple for the first time and end up hating the taste of it, and a scene from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' where the husband has to find Chop Suey, because his pregnant wife has started craving it.

** In Part 2, Seita overhears Yuki singing a song called "Middle of a Muddle", which was a deleted song from ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}''.

Light of the Fireflies is a trilogy of [[Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies Grave ofThe Fireflies]] stories written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2550531/321Haruko123 Haruko123]]

** In Part 3, Seita recounts to his children a pregnant Yuki's obsession with pineapple, only for Yuki to have moved on to something else by the time Seita finds one. This was a reference to ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' where the family gets a pineapple for the first time and end up hating the taste of it, and was based on a scene from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' where the husband has to find Chop Suey, because his pregnant wife has started craving it.

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** Seita's kids, Tsutomu and Ayano, are named after the actors who voiced Seita and Setsuko in ''Grave of of The Fireflies''.

** In Part 3, Seita recounts to his children a pregnant Yuki's obsession with pineapple, only for Yuki to have moved on to something else by the time Seita finds one. This was a reference to ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' where the family gets a pineapple for the first time and end up hating the taste of it, and was based on a scene from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' where Jim Dear has to find Chop Suey, which Darling has started craving now that she is pregnant.

* MythologyGag: At the end of ''Grave Of The Fireflies'', Seita returns to the shelter only to find Setsuko hallucinating. While this doesn't happen in the fanfic, this scene is recontextualised as part of a nightmare Seita has during Part 2.

* RealityEnsues: Yuki is injured by a bullet from a plane during Part 1. She recovers from it, but the damage has already been done. In part 3 she mentions that she cannot run due to her injured leg, and in the final chapter Seita mentions that it got worse as time went on.