Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

(2018)

★ 8.1 IMDb · 731 votes

Genres: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Year: 2018

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Мари Окада

Cast: Манака Ивами, Мию Ирино, Юки Сакурай, Аи Каяно, Юки Кадзи, Ёсимаса Хосоя, Рина Сато, Ёко Хикаса, Миюки Савасиро, Томокадзу Сугита

Plot

Fleeing the war, the immortal Maquia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.

In the land of Iolph, all the people stop aging in their mid-teens and can live for hundreds of years. One resident, Maquia, feels lonely despite the peaceful and idyllic land she lives in. But one day, the Mesarte army invades Iolph, seeking the peoples' blood for their immortality. Maquia manages to escape the destruction and chaos of war, but with no home or people, she becomes a wanderer in a dark forest. She comes across Erial, an infant mortal boy who has lost his parents, and becomes his guardian. The story follows the relationship that evolves between the two as Erial grows up while Maquia does not.