Manga 'Cocoon' Gets Anime in Summer 2025

Television broadcaster NHK announced an anime adaptation of Machiko Kyou's Cocoon manga on Tuesday, revealing the main staff and a teaser visual (pictured above). The anime is scheduled to premiere on NHK in Summer 2025.
Staff
Animation Producer: Hitomi Tateno (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari in-between animation)
Studio: Sasayuri
Production: NHK, NHK Enterprises
Kyou serialized the historical drama manga in Elegance Eve from May 2008 to July 2010.
Synopsis
San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordered to die for their country, the remaining members of the group escape only to face the harsh environment of a tropical paradise that has become a hellish battlefield.
Official site: https://www.nhk.jp/g/blog/4xp6rzqv73v
Source: PR Times
Cocoon on MAL
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Jun 30, 2023 9:12 AM by Pyro81300
>Historical anime with a pair of female friends as protagonists gets announced.
Oh cool
>Announcement thread is mainly brainrotted discussion of, "Is this a yuri!?!11?"
Never change western weebs, never change.
Sad state of affairs. We should have gatekeeped anime way harder.
Jun 29, 2023 10:53 PM by Piromysl
>Historical anime with a pair of female friends as protagonists gets announced.
Oh cool
>Announcement thread is mainly brainrotted discussion of, "Is this a yuri!?!11?"
Never change western weebs, never change.
Jun 29, 2023 8:09 PM by RobertBobert
Oh cool
>Announcement thread is mainly brainrotted discussion of, "Is this a yuri!?!11?"
Never change western weebs, never change.
Jun 29, 2023 7:40 PM by HatsuneYugi39
Jun 29, 2023 1:40 AM by yamiyugi101
Jun 29, 2023 1:09 AM by RobertBobert
dude, i just explained to you why this series GL element left big impression on me and slowly overtime it was the one that i mostly remember from the series. not a single time i have intention to make this personal between you and me. i even explaining the "YOU" in here was to every reader of my post, not specifically to you (since it was a public forum). is this still really hard to understand?
Jun 29, 2023 1:03 AM by Kuma
So, once upon a time, some people complained about something and it annoyed you, and now you write down everyone who questions your experience with manga as a complainer? You literally confirmed that this is personal to you.
Jun 29, 2023 12:16 AM by RobertBobert
no, i was talking about back then. not now. back then complainers was the reason this subplot left big impression of me than the series ending was.
Jun 29, 2023 12:07 AM by Kuma
You literally call people complainers when they just question your opinion, and you also keep blindly repeating your thesis after it has been questioned or discussed. It's literally making things personal.
Jun 28, 2023 11:46 PM by RobertBobert
there is nothing personal here. my statement is not directly specifically to you the one i quote to, but also you all the reader of my post. also i misremember side character with main character thus also also swap their plot. as simple as that. also never say it was a yuri manga, just it has yuri element (subtext) and the people did complain about it which left big impression on me because it was mostly war tragedy manga and people still complain about slightest hint of homosexuality in said series and somehow it was their deal breaker.
back then you can watch this in the himeyuri museum official site with english sub. but as now, i couldn't find it on said site.
Jun 28, 2023 11:37 PM by Kuma
You're taking things too personal again. This is not an argument about homosexuality. It's a dialogue about certain elements in the plot. And even if there was indeed a "hint" with a side character, it doesn't make a yuri manga.
Where can I watch this ?
Jun 28, 2023 11:33 PM by RobertBobert
Jun 28, 2023 10:13 PM by Ramkec
Jun 28, 2023 6:37 PM by nishant0
Jun 28, 2023 6:32 PM by HRGR600
i think you are right. i probably confused the lead with one of side character who really desperate for date because she fear she didn't survive the war and
as for second point, i think same answer with above. i probably confused main character with one of side character.
This being the other one
https://myanimelist.net/anime/20469/Himeyuri
Jun 28, 2023 6:10 PM by Kuma
This story is based on true event and from what I heard just like grave of fireflies this one also gonna be very hard to watch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeyuri_students
oh boy
Jun 28, 2023 1:34 PM by Swagernator
This story is based on true event and from what I heard just like grave of fireflies this one also gonna be very hard to watch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeyuri_students
oh boy
Second anime I know of to focus on the himeyuri student nurses.
This being the other one
https://myanimelist.net/anime/20469/Himeyuri
Jun 28, 2023 8:18 AM by ZXEAN
i think you are right. i probably confused the lead with one of side character who really desperate for date because she fear she didn't survive the war and
Fine. Imagine that we are discussing whether the protagonist is Jewish or not, and at one point in the argument I say "if you are an anti-Semite, then this film is not for you." Would you take it as using a scarecrow or trying to put you in an uncomfortable position?
If it was so "heavily implied" then it clearly went over the heads of anyone else, for even the shipping-obsessed Anilist hadn't heard of it. I'm looking at chapter 14 right now and it doesn't go any further than the typical expression of affection for a loved one at death's door. Especially when they ask you to run and don't try to save them. It's literally a one volume manga with 15 relatively short chapters, can't you remember where the scene you're referring to was?
as for second point, i think same answer with above. i probably confused main character with one of side character.
Jun 28, 2023 7:02 AM by RobertBobert
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This is a story about the horrors of war, there are bonds between the girls as they struggle for survival but it's not cute lesbian fetish bait, if you're coming here expecting girl kissage you're going to be sorely mistaken
Jul 18, 2023 5:07 PM by texasfangirl1999