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So I just finished this too. It was amazing, beautifully drawn and very well animated. I liked the music a lot too. I would've preferred a greater evil but Miyori acting as the granddaughter of the witch was good enough. 9/10

I found it pretty bad, the drawing is not that good, the animation is very weak (then again it's just a special and not a movie but I sometime felt like it was worse than a TV series...) and the direction is truly horrible (well it's the first anime made by this director that is normally an art director, and it's totally understandable when you watch Miyori no Mori).

It felt like a Miyazaki rip-off, without the animation, without the plot, without the characters which are plain bad and unrealistic (excuse me but Miyori sounded like she was 16 whereas she is a 11 year-old girl...), and the themes are not even well developped. I don't want to speak about the direction because it's probably one of the worse I've ever seen in an anime, the plans and sequences are just random, badly timed and structured, I thought that it was directed by an amateur honestly (which Yamamoto-san is if we can say so, Miyori being his first work as a director).

The only good things in this special are the marvellous backgrounds (did I already say that Yamamoto's job is art direction ? ;)) and the musical score which is pleasant. Overall it was not even decent (better than Gin-Iro no Kami no Agito in a similar style but it's not really hard as this one is a gigantic piece of shit) and even if you don't compare it to a Ghibli movie, it's still not a good anime at all.

I didn't expect anything before watchin this one, but still it seems that my expectations were too high for it ;)

It met it's goal of being a movie/special for kids, but other than it was pretty mediocre. The only thing I found really intolerable was the directing which, like Jacut pointed out, was terrible. Sometimes the characters worked, but for the most part they felt like a product of bad writing. Sometimes the plot worked, but again it was hindered by poor writing and hapless direction. Yet somehow, through it all, it didn't manage to feel like a complete waste of time. Probably because it had the potential to be good if a competent team was working on it...

It would have been better if half of the movie wasn't wasted about Miyori being an pest. The only best part and funny part of the movie is Kuro turning white from fear.