Krim (or Klim) served as the central character of a subplot in Maquia involving a revolution against the kingdom of Mezarte, the kingdom that attacked Maquia’s homeland at the beginning of the movie. Krim could have been deleted as a character and nothing would have changed about the main story I found myself asking “am I supposed to be crying right now? What makes this emotional moment more special that the other 10 in the movie?”Ģ. Instead Okada seemed to believe that more crying from the characters = more crying from the audience, and by the time that the true climax of the film is reached, the audience has already run out of tears. What made the emotional moments in Okada’s other works so effective was that they served as climaxes to intense dramatic rising action. With so many dramatic peaks, so many “crying moments” the audience doesn’t have time to build up emotional tension. “Poor pacing” is such a generic and cliche criticism in anime reviews, but in this case there are concrete examples as to why this is the case.
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The main problem is that the movie goes way too far with this idea, having dramatic scenes with characters crying in what seems to be every 10 minutes. Crying does not by itself make scenes more emotional or dramaticįor those who are familiar with Mari Okada’s previous work, particularly as a screenwriter on Anohana and The Anthem of the Heart, it won’t be a surprise that Maquia tries very hard to be a tearjerker. In essence, Maquia showed moments of greatness and was an overall entertaining anime, but there were two major problems that derailed it from being one of the best anime movies of all time.ġ. This is to be expected in the directorial debut of even the most talented creators, as most people would not consider Nausicaa, the second Digimon Movie, or The Place Promised in Our Early Days to be the best works of their respective directors. Spirited Away, Wolf Children, your name).
While Maquia - When the Promised Flower Blooms is by no means a bad movie, it doesn’t quite compare yet to the all time great masterpieces of the established masters (e.g. However, she isn’t quite there yet in her directorial debut. Mari Okada is going to be one of the great anime directors of our time, eventually reaching the prestige of legends like Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda, and Makoto Shinkai. Disclaimer: I did like this movie, but this review is going to focus more on the criticism than the praise since there’s already lots of reviews saying about how great the movie is, but not as many pointing out its flaws.