Bitmob writer Jasmine Rea called Fragile Dreams an "experience rather than a game", citing that it had an emotional impact similar to that of Isao Takahata's adaptation of Akiyuki Nosaka's novel Grave of the Fireflies.
The proposal for Gunbuster languished until Anno, who was then working at Studio Gravitron on Grave of the Fireflies, saw Yamaga's script and 'was moved to tears' by it.
A 2-car Hankyu train was featured in the 1988 Japanese animated war drama Grave of the Fireflies.
As a voice actor, Spencer was the voice of Seita in the anime movie, Grave of the Fireflies.
Jean Grave | Grave | One Foot in the Grave | Dracula Has Risen from the Grave | Grave of the Fireflies | Take This to Your Grave | Shallow Grave | Grave, North Brabant | Grave (burial) | Voice from the Grave | Terror-Creatures from the Grave | mass grave | grave | François Gravé Du Pont | Craxi's grave in Hammamet, Tunisia | Cradle 2 the Grave | Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath song) | Children of the Grave | Zsigmondy's grave (left) in the cemetery of Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans | Vix Grave | Vicente Martinez-Ybor's grave site in the St. Louis section of Tampa's Oaklawn Cemetery | The Unquiet Grave | the King's Grave | The Debussys' grave at Passy Cemetery | Taimah's grave marker, near, Kingston, Iowa | Stanford's grave in St. Benedict's Cemetery at Subiaco, Arkansas | Salomea Hauke's grave (Protestant Cemetery, Warsaw) | Robert Kennedy's grave in Arlington National Cemetery | pauper's grave | Ouspensky's grave at the Holy Trinity Church in Lyne, Surrey |
His Grave of the Fireflies and American Hijiki won the Naoki Prize in 1967.