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AyunaAni said: YOOOOO WHAT THE FUK. Why is this so underrated. (toxic mode activated) This anime deserves to be on top of 90% of the anime out there. I literally thought this was so popular, that my inner hipster self was barely standing. Unfortunately, MAL says otherwise. Yup difference in opinions, in mome this movie is hella overrated. And with the comment with Mari Okada with unnecessary drama, there is so much in the movie. |
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| Holy shit, I didn't expect this level of heavy. I don't think I even teared up this much back when I watched Clannad After Story in highschool. Damn this is a melancholic MASTERPIECE. Maquia is best anime mama no questions asked. One thing I didn't get, why did Leilia try to jump off the palace? I guessed to escape her capture and abuse, maybe, or maybe to protect her daughter from being found out as a half-Iorph. But that moment felt really rushed and awkward, kinda came off thoughtless to me. |
BlokeTokesJan 16, 2019 7:54 PM
| For such an intimate story, which clearly has a personal factor for Okada, there is an ambitious scope at play. It may be argued that the final coda - after a gigantic battle and the literal birth of a new generation - lingers a bit too much in melancholy. However, letting go is difficult, and rarely has a movie so delicately paid homage to the unconditional tumult of a mother-child relationship. |
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| the ending...oof. cried like a baby. 10/10. |
BlueKojiro said: I think between the last two time skips we needed to see how Dita and Ariel reunited and we also needed to see the struggle that Maquia went through during her captivity that caused her to turn into the strong, stoic person she was after the very last time skip. I actually don't agree. Even after the skip she's still pretty skittish til she helps Dita go through labor, where she has an inner revelation of her place as Ariel's mother and getting "strong" in her feelings in building the courage to separate from the one she loves. Dita as a character is somewhat secondary to the plot so I think extra details weren't necessary. But good post. I was excited when I realized the soundtrack was Kenji Kawaii. Finally got my wish of his Fate Stay Night 2006 ost vibes in tandem with great drama. BlueKojiro said: I just think the coolest thing about it is that it's a story that realistically can't possibly happen. It's like a Benjamin Button story, only the relationship is between mother and child rather than between lovers, and I like that different take on it (and it's also one I relate to more). A mother is almost certainly never going to see her own child on his deathbed as a grandfather and then have to face the reality of living on past that point. That's why I think it works, because it doesn't just present the idea of "is it worth loving someone?" and just say "yeah, because memories dude!" and then let your mind wonder what wonderful adventures the characters got up to after the credits. I mean, maybe it does for Maquia and the other Iorph guy, but Ariel's story is definitively done at that point. It actually explores the entire lifespan of someone, and more importantly, it follows a mother who loved her son through his whole life and then had to watch him die. It wasn't sudden, like oh no, he died in a war, how horrible. It was completely inevitable, and I think it really brought the entire idea of "would you love someone even if after a lifetime spent with them you'd have to sit on their deathbed and watch them go, AND you had to go on and live your life after that" into a tangible format. Definitely felt this. |
4)I think u meant the 3rd time?the 2nd time he tried to save her but failed due to the knights and most of them got killed.Anyways, she initially thought Krim and the other Iorphs were dead. So the only one she thought she still had in the world was her daughter who was related to her by blood. She desired to see her daughter and that desire became an obsession over the years. That's why she couldn't leave without seeing her daughter. But when she saw her daughter, she became scared. She was scared of becoming a mother,to become attach to her daughter who would die before her(i don't think the daughter has a long lifespan because she clearly aged normally throughout the movie) and the pain of having to go through that. Thats why she decided to leave her daughter behind and told her daughter to forget her and that she too will forget her daughter. She wanted to be free from that sadness and pain. That actually sounds like a valid explanation for why Leilia left Medmel behind. It doesn't excuse her doing so, yes, but I wish the movie gave some time to actually have Leilia explain why she left her instead of just telling her to forget about her, or even highlight this potential explanation in the film. She doesn't even try to explain why she did what she did in the movie, and that infuriates me to no end and makes all of her other actions seem way out of character. |
| Damn that was a masterpiece! The passage of time withers all, but love remains |
| pretty awful bad pacing and rushed plot |
| It was dazzling to finally see Akihiko's style animated, I must say. He's one of the best fantasy artists out there so it was a shame that he never got out of the gaming scene until now. And yeah, it had some problems, most of it script-wise amateur mistakes (fitting, considering it's Okada's debut as a director): sometimes the development was confusing and at worst made no sense, characters could use some improvement, some themes could have been expanded upon. The most WTF moment for me was when Maquia was captured by someone supposedly death whose return was not foreshadowed in the slightest, and working for the opposing kingdoms which were devising a plot which I don't remember being mentioned or even foreshadowed either, so it completely came out of nowhere and I was really confused, especially when it had just been mentioned (twice! even) that Mezarte was after Maquia, so that's a low plot move, a rather cheap way to subvert expectations. Also, at the same sequence Krim comments that Maquia letting her hair grow is a "sign that she's pregnant", and this was completely forgotten because apparently she wasn't and it was never mentioned again. And then after that Krim storms the castle with Maquia because?????? I was at a loss for why exactly Maquia had to go with him. I was at the impression that she was captured so the opposing kingdoms could try having an immortal offspring like the king of Mezarte intended (with the mention of her being pregnant and all) but then suddenly Krim is shown on the battlefield with Maquia and then leaves her behind. Yes, that made no sense for me, so if someone fan explain to me what the hell happened that would make me glad. The timeskips made everything all the more confusing. And then the characters. Ozil had a pretty interesting proposal, feeling guilty for his actions and doting on Leilia for having killed her kin and Krim. But then...he was a blank for the rest of the movie and then Krim is revealed to be alive and that again made no fucking sense, since we were led to believe his relationship with Leilia was due especially to him killing Krim (yeah, we are ever shown his death but it's heavily implied). His character could have used some work. I don't really have a problem with the rest of the characters except that...they just aren't very memorable. I would use the Mamoru Hosoda movies as an example, where every single character, even the most secondary, had some quirk which made them distinguishable from the rest. Except for Maquia, Ariel and Mido (and maybe Leilia) the rest of the characters just weren't very remarkable. Aside from their respective positions in the plot there wasn't anything else that distinguished them from the rest, especially since most of them had very brief appearances. And, well,the red eye disease. I believe it was supposed to be symbolic and all, but it was kinda stupid to come up with such a convenient out of nowhere disease to tear down the dragons numbers, I'd say. They could have been a bit more imaginative with that. Despite all its shortcomings, however, I loved it. It got me by surprise, since I thought this was gonna be just a romance anime. It was unconventional, even for an Okada anime, and quite daring considering the industry's current state. It's refreshing to see a pseudo-medieval fantasy anime that didn't seem like it came out the creator's RPG group table, and actually employed some imagination. |
Satyr_iconJan 27, 2019 8:45 PM
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| That scene at the end where she met Ariel as a grandpa was god tier. |
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| A beautifully animated film with a good message about family; however, the fantasy world is a bit of a mess that's hard to follow. 7/10 |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| Been really looking forward to watching this but honestly thought it was overrated and overly dramatic. Characters felt under-developed and the plot never really reached that sweet feels spot for me. |
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| That was a fucking emotional torture session... WHY didn't Maquia just stay with Ariel for the duration of his life as his Mom? There are so many choices in this movie I can't understand for the life of me. I would never choose to willingly live separated from someone I love. If the reason was that she wanted to be with Leilia, just move somewhere close by?? |
TeriumFeb 5, 2019 2:01 PM
Terium said: That was a fucking emotional torture session... WHY didn't Maquia just stay with Ariel for the duration of his life as his Mom? There are so many choices in this movie I can't understand for the life of me. I would never choose to willingly live separated from someone I love. If the reason was that she wanted to be with Leilia, just move somewhere close by?? Her choice not to stay with him and his family bothered me. You never stop needing your parents, no matter how old you get. To just peace out for no apparent reason seemed like something sad for sadness sake. Overall I loved the movie, but that left a bit of a sour taste. |
| "My name is John Locke, and I'm responsible for the well being of this Island" |
| Very touching, I do not even know how many times I cried during the narration, especially in the end it was hard not to cry a tear, however a very sweet and sad story, perhaps ruined by the script, but despite this the narrative was able to describe the love and the bond between parents and children. The work of the Studio P.A. Works was great, the backgrounds and everything was great, really a joy for the eyes watching this movie. The soundtrack is also catchy. I would have liked the film to last longer, just to better explain certain points in the story and deny it more. I do not know if the other users will be satisfied with this film, as far as I'm concerned he has kept the premises I had made, even if not in the sense that I believed before watching the film. My vote is 9/10. |
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Terium said: There are so many choices in this movie I can't understand for the life of me. J0HN_L0CKE said: Her choice not to stay with him and his family bothered me. You never stop needing your parents, no matter how old you get. To just peace out for no apparent reason seemed like something sad for sadness sake. Overall I loved the movie, but that left a bit of a sour taste. It's a matter of cultural difference, I believe. I agree with both of you, however, Japan still follows that old-fashioned trend that children have to grow off their parents so they can truly mature and live their own lives (and that's very strong still in a lot of places). Of course most people don't actually cut ties with their parents, buuut this usually is taken to extremes in art. A good example off the top of my head is the movie El Topo, where a father makes his child bury both his toys and a picture of his mother. |
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| Flaws apparent throughout the course of the show, particularly due to the poor pacing especially in the second half, but an amazing movie, nevertheless! Maquia’s(Makia) struggles as a parent was beautifully handled and the growth of Ariel to a certain extent too. Ariel deciding to join the military and the whole buildup to it gave me the impression that Ariel was steadily falling for Maquia as a woman, evidently through his actions when drunk, because she looked like any other teenage girl in town. As such, I think this was a great depiction of it but then what was with the time skip? Ariel clearly looked concerned for Maquia but my main concern is why he didn’t go back to her. Judging by his appearance though, it mustn’t have been a long time skip but even then, you’d expect him to return back after reuniting with Dita then. Did he leave for other purposes in the first place then? What was Maquia doing while being confined behind bars though and who captured her even? Was it the General because Leila briefly mentioned about her earlier? Besides, when exactly was Maquia captured? Thinking back on the movie, I felt as though it was right after Ariel’s leave but it can’t be since the rumours, to which Ariel caught upon, must’ve been a few years later. Over all, the whole timeline of the show, along with the other timeskips too, was a big mess. Moreover, there was the whole issue with the Prince, why did he not allow Medmel to meet Leila? What was the objective of the whole grand plan here, literally comer her to insanity? And then there was the reunion between the mother and the daughter which just felt anticlimactic as a whole. Clearly, she was too afraid of becoming her ideal mother and I completely understand that but a couple of minutes more emphasising on that would’ve been so much better honestly. Moving on, Maquia then going through a moment of Deja vu and coincidentally meeting up with Ariel’s wife and child was really sweet and all but I just can’t comprehend the reasonings behind why both Ariel and Maquia would leave such a frail mother behind like that. How’d Maquia even find Ariel so easily like that, there must’ve been a pile of corpses all over the place(we even got a few shots featuring just that)? And then she took the hard call and left, and oddly enough this is something I found to be very hard to accept just an hour ago or two but I can see why she’d made that call now and that just depresses me even more. What happened to the King and the Prince in the end though? Don’t tell me they managed to survive and lived through their life away from the throne, because that’d just piss me off to no bounds. Got to say though, other Characters such as Krim, Lang(why didn’t they show more of his family after the time skip though even though there were a few references to them every now and then?), Barlow and Izol could’ve really been better off with some more screentime. But I’ll just stop here, maybe there’s more on the downsides of the show but I think this is more than enough. On the other hand, the aesthetics of this show was superb! World Building wasn’t the best and the war, thus, didn’t feel ‘right’ or so to say but it managed to get the point across well enough. Visuals, as expected from P.A. Works was gorgeous, even the CGI bits were cool and so was the glorious Sound Department! Profound and a very strong message from the movie too, ‘motherhood’! Brilliant depiction of this! Maquia was selfless, always caring and just had every single motherly attribute, making the final product just even more impactful and depressing. And then the final scene of the short but heart-wrenching reunion. God, my eyes just watered up all of a sudden. It was just incredible! “Welcome home!” and then signing off like that in bliss was just too dang powerful for me. Maquia was with him from the start to the very end of his life, in many ways, and moving on from that point onwards must’ve been so very painful. God, I can’t even imagine how it must’ve felt like. “I’m sorry for breaking our promise.” and that very deserved and essential burst of tears and grief completely quenched my kokoro there. It’s hard to put it into words, but it was simply incredible! Seeing those flashes of the past come and go with that wonderful music was so very touching and just beautiful to the point where my eyeballs totally gave away. Definitely the most emotional bit for me from any of Mari Okada’s works by far. Despite all its flaws and unanswered questions, I’ll still award this movie a solid 8.5/10! It’s a Great movie, no doubt whatsoever. |
_MushiRock11_Feb 6, 2020 10:48 AM
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| Definitly a really worth-it movie to watch, 9/10. Japanese animation (movies) has made a great step, but again they show the end at the beginning which kinda triggers me :(. A lot of good movies are coming out recently and this is again the proof that animation is improving a lot! Some moments feel a bit too skipped such as the moment when Krim kidnap Maquia (i don't remember quite well every detail of the movie tho). |
SephyrosFeb 28, 2019 1:33 AM
| Signature removed. Please have a positive iq. |
| what does Hibiol mean? |
Anime-Utopia said: what does Hibiol mean? Hibiol is the type of clothes they're weaving (in which they often wrote hidden messages on). |
| Signature removed. Please have a positive iq. |
| Love it especially the art and animation. Cried on the ending but it was good. Only Ariel's part when he was drunk was weird for me though. I also liked the seiyuus! Miyu Irino one of my fave seiyuus |
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| I was expecting some kind of romantic movie but the fact that it is a motherhood movie was a nice surprise. I have mixed feelings about the time skips honestly: it made it hard for me to appreciate how the characters evolved (especially Maquia and Ariel). I didn't like Maquia's va, idk, I couldn't take her seriously. Nothing to add to the animation: they put a lot of detail and work there. |
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| It's been a day now since I finished the movie and most of the times the hype kinda dies down but I still feel the same as I did when I first finished it. I think it's easily close to being one of my favorite movies of all time. The story is told in such a beautiful way that I honestly don't have anything bad to say about it. My only minor complaint would be that it was sometimes hard to tell if time had passed and not always knowing what happened during them. |
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| Hey, that's the thing from Wanted. A girl jumped. Maquia? Roll credits! Roll credits! They have long lifespans. Leilia and Krim like each other?z What's that in the sky? Dragon? 400 years old? Capture the women? Red-Eye? Run! Dat crash. Dat scream. A dead woman and a baby. A man. Dem finger cracks. She took the baby. Oppai. Slap the oppai baby. Ariel? Dat butt spank. Dat mama. Leilia. Time skip? And that was the end. Great movie. Thought Maquia and Ariel would end up together, but the surprise with Dita happened. |
| If you see that my post is exactly 1 month old (or more) from when it was posted... Don't waste your time, especially when you want to reply with something petty & insignificant. Assume that I've moved on (because I have). |
| A few seconds in: wow, this grating writer looks like a decent shot composer. A minute in: a girl is jumping. Wow, she seems determined to give a TV series look to her debut movie... Not the patience to stand two hours of extremely flat faces/bodies put on nice backgrounds (and CG ones). Very bad way to start a day of school at 5a.m.. On-hold for a few days. |
| Not what I expected it to be from the beginning, but i wasn't disappointed! Such a great show with pretty visuals and a great story with a good message in it that I cried so much in it. |
| I can't say I -loved- it, but still liked it, had some great scenes. Start and the end for example. I wish Leilia and Izol had romance than the creeps she was with (Krim turned out to be one too) Maquia kept me interested, she developed very well. Maybe even surpassed Leilia by the end. |
| My wife bought this blu-ray the other day and I watched it tonight in our home theater with low expectations. What I found was a film of epic proportions, with scenes of immense breadth and depth, and a story of a tragic suffering of those born to eternal life. A masterfully woven tale with rich and developed characters and plot. Simply "wow!" A note about the architecture of the city: it reminded me of a fusion of Notre Dame Cathedral and Sydney Opera House, with a futuristic quality, a la "Star Wars". I found it quite innovative for an anime city. |
basspigApr 19, 2019 8:50 AM
| Honestly, one of the freshest pieces of writing that has resonated with me since the last Miyazaki film. |
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| Its been 2 days since Ive watched this and Im still crying over this movie. It honestly was so lovely to watch. I cried like a baby toward the end. I shall now force all my friends to watch this and cry with me lol. I feel this movie is so amazing yet most people never heard of it. |
| Something else. This movie was really something else. Sure, the melodrama was bit forced twice or thrice, Krim felt more like a plot device then believable character and sometimes the world logic was bit off but beneath all of this you can find really touching story about growing up, human mortality and wonderful relationship of the mother and her child. I liked how Maquia went from unexperienced girl to dependable woman thoughout the story even though her looks haven't really changed and how she finally let her child go to craft his own future in the moment when her parenting was no longer needed. It was nice parallel to our own circle of life and great reflection on what it means to be a parent. Honestly, it was great to show one complete life from the viewpoint of the immortal, not something every anime does. The movie felt kinda similiar to Journey game or Lion King in a sense and I certainly enjoyed it a lot. 8/10 |
| just watched it today, and had to give a perfect 10. emotional ending almost made me cry... ;_; |
| "A new parting is for another meeting." Strong words... |
Νεχ ποσσυμ τεχυμ ωιωερε, νεχ σινε τε. |
| A bit boring to be honest. The ending was sad though. |
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| giving it 7/10 as the story got a bit stale, half end was good though I don't know if it suits my taste but this was a great movie with strong bonds between family (Maquia and Ariel). Recommended for you who watched Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki |
| It was ok, the animation for sure pretty ~ kinda sad that she lives on for so long and see dear People to her, dying |
| There is no doubt that visually this anime is incredibly beautiful, incredible But I can't say the same for the story, there were so many things happened and makes me asking question in each every scene and moments Like for example when Leila was angry and blame Izol for the one who causes her suffering, I thought to myself this guy might actually help her or something (seeing as it was shown that he sympathize and regret his action). However till the end he did nothing of the sort and shot Leila former boyfriend Krim and not only that he still fought for the dumb witted Mezarte king and prince, even though he has no reason what so ever and he could have ended the conflict much much sooner !!! Also the ending was very sad for sure but not touching sad, more of a "that's it ?" kinda sad which does not make a lotta sense to me So again I think its a great anime in terms of visual but for story they might wanna revise it again, because it's a shame for something that looks great but had a less than mediocre story score 7/10 |
RedChromeMay 24, 2019 1:28 PM
| I-I'm not c-crying, y-you are! |
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| Ngl this movie left me in a crying mess. I honestly didn't know what to expect from it as I just went in without reading anything beforehand and boy I'm glad I did that because I didn't expect the movie to be about motherhood, and I think Mari Okada tackled the theme pretty well. I do have issues with some of the characters' growth and relationships being in 'timeskips' but I guess they can't take their time to flesh them out for a 2hr movie. But still imo they managed to conclude everything pretty decently. 9/10. I enjoyed it a lot. Definitely one of my fav anime movies. |
| I can't remember the last time a movie got me this emotional. I was bawling during the flashback sequence at the end. Then I went and listened to the soundtrack and was crying so hard it was actually embarrassing. Mari Okada's works always seem to find their way directly into weak spots. |
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