Film2018115 min

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Name: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Released: 2018
Duration: 115 min
Cast: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Tomokazu Sugita, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Miyuki Sawashiro

Taste attributes: animationdramafantasyromanceteenadventureanimalsmonster/alien/supernaturalimaginarysimplelinearbig & variedemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationshiplove conquers all

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"In a world where love is forbidden... they will find love."

Boxlist takeFantastical and emotional: a wide-ranging animated film. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

8.4 /10

TMDB · 385 votes

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What lines up

Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Balanced wholesomeness, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Balanced pace, just how this profile likes it

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Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Realism: Imaginary world, where this profile leans balanced realism

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Synopsis

Maquia is a member of a special race called the Iorph who can live for hundreds of years. However, Maquia has always felt lonely despite being surrounded by her people, as she was orphaned from a young age. She daydreams about the outside world, but dares not travel from her home due to the warnings of the clan's chief. One day the kingdom of Mezarte invades her homeland. They already have what is left of the giant dragons, the Renato, under their control, and now their king wishes to add the immortality to his bloodline. They ravage the Iorph homeland and kill most of its inhabitants. Caught in the midst of the attack, Maquia is carried off by one of the Renato. It soon dies, and she is left deserted in a forest, now truly alone save for the cries of a single baby off in the distance. Maquia finds the baby in a destroyed village and decides to raise him as her own, naming him Ariel. Although she knows nothing of the human world, how to raise a child that ages much faster than her.

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