Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
2018 · Movie · NR · 115 min · ★ 8.1 · 86% critics
Fleeing a brutal war, an immortal young woman who will never age finds an abandoned baby in the woods and chooses to raise him as her own. As years pass and the child grows, their bond becomes a tender, bittersweet look at family, love, and what it means to watch life change when you can’t.
Also known as Let's Decorate the Promised Flowers in the Farewell Morning
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Details
- Original title
- さよならの朝に約束の花をかざろう
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-02-24
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 86/100
- TMDB rating
- 8.1/10 (704 votes)
- Box office
- $4,300,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a patient, tear-jerking fantasy drama about chosen family and growing up, similar in emotional tone to Wolf Children or A Silent Voice: The Movie; Not for you if you dislike slow builds or story gaps.
Pros: emotional payoff; beautiful world and art; heartfelt themes | Cons: uneven pacing; confusing time jumps; underexplained side plots
Themes
- family relationships
- coming of age
- tragedy
- dragon
- military
- anime
- high fantasy
- josei
- hand drawn animation
- family life
- time skip
Cast & crew
Manaka Iwami
as Maquia (voice)
Miyu Irino
as Ariel (voice)
Yuuki Sakurai
as Ariel as a Child (voice)
Ai Kayano
as Leilia (voice)
Yuki Kaji
as Krim (voice)
Yoshimasa Hosoya
as Lang (voice)
Rina Sato
as Mido (voice)
Yoko Hikasa
as Dita (voice)
Miyuki Sawashiro
as Racine (voice)
Tomokazu Sugita
as Izor (voice)
Directed by Mari Okada