Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018) [NR]

Release Date:
February 24, 2018

Original Title:
さよならの朝に約束の花をかざろう

Alternate Titles:
Let Us Adorn the Morning of Farewells with Promised Flowers
Let Us Adorn the Morning of Farwells With Flowers
Let's Decorate the Promised Flowers in the Farewell Morning
Let's Decorate the Promised Flowers in the Morning of Farewells
Makia
Maquia, When the Promised Flower Blooms
Maquia: Quando a Flor Prometida Desabrochar
Maquia: Quando a Flor Prometida Floresce
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
SayoAsa
Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazarō
Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou
在离别之朝竖起约定之花
在离别的清晨装点上约定之花
朝花夕誓

Genres:
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy

Production Companies:
Bandai Visual
Cygames
Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Lantis
P.A.WORKS

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 6  AU: MA 15+  BR: 12  DE: 12  ES: 12  IE: 12A  IT: 14+  JP: G  KR: 12  MX: B  RU: 12+  SE: 11  TW: 0+  UA: 12+  US: NR 

Runtime: 115

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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2D Artist:
Chie Kato

Additional Production Assistant:
Yuya Fukuzawa
Shotaro Ito
Shisei Sugawara
Mina Tajima
Masanori Kamohara
Kentaro Mori
Akira Yamamoto

Animation Director:
Tadashi Hiramatsu
Yuriko Ishii
Noriko Ito
Kosuke Kawatsura

Art Designer:
Tomoaki Okada

Art Direction:
Kazuki Higashiji

Assistant Art Director:
Toshie Honda

Assistant Director:
Toshiya Shinohara

Assistant Director of Photography:
Yoshimitsu Tomita

Assistant Editor:
Mayumi Komori

Background Designer:
Mie Kasai
Yuki Nomura
Kazuki Higashiji
Toshie Honda
Tsukasa Kakizakai
Yuuki Hatakeyama
Kurumi Suzuki
Miho Sugiura
Rie Sonehara
Kaori Hoshiba
Erika Okazaki
Yoko Nukumizu
Nguyen Trang
Yusuke Ikeda
Le Mai
Dao Hung
Hoang Mai
Tatsuya Kushida
Natsumi Murakata
Yusuke Watanabe
Yuka Ohashi
Minami Usui
Mizuka Ueda
Ayumi Sato
Kayoko Tokou
Akari Furuse
Mizue Shouchi
Yuka Hirama
Yuko Yano
Do Hien
Dang Phi
Cao Hoang
Ken Arai
Natsumi Niima
Kiyoshi Sameshima
Yurina Nakamura
Zhang Yun
Qiu Xiaohong
Ma Yunying
Wang Jie
Tang Zhijun
Song Lianjun
Aya Sato
Harumi Okamoto
Takamasa Masuki
Takayuki Nagashima
Kentaro Ohnuki
Kayo Kojio
Ryusei Nishino
Eri Mizukami
Naoko Yamada
Tomonori Kato
Takumu Sasaki
Yumiko Sudo
Takeshi Sudo
Riko Nakamura
Chika Hirabuki
Izumi Hirabayashi
Saori Sone
Tomomi Nakajima
Atsuko Sakakura
Yoko Kamiyama

CGI Director:
Tomohisa Shitara

Character Designer:
Yuriko Ishii
Toshiyuki Inoue
Tadashi Hiramatsu
Akihiko Yoshida

Color Designer:
Katsue Inoue

Compositing Artist:
Yukiyo Kajiwara
Tomohiro Takahashi
Tatsuya Watabe
Akane Ueda

Concept Artist:
Tomoaki Okada

Director:
Mari Okada

Director of Photography:
Satoshi Namiki

Editor:
Ayumu Takahashi

Executive Producer:
Hirotsugu Ogisu
Shigeru Saito
Jun Yukawa

Foley Artist:
Shizuo Kurahashi

Key Animation:
Tadashi Hiramatsu
Takehiro Ishimoto
Noriko Ito
Kosuke Kawatsura
Toshiyuki Inoue
Kazuki Hoshino
Hidetsugu Ito
Takaaki Yamashita
Takeshi Honda
Masahiro Sato
Akira Honma
Fumie Imai
Ei Inoue
Hideki Takahashi
Ryosuke Tsuchiya
Akitsugu Hisagi
Akemi Kobayashi
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Yumi Ikeda
Izumi Seguchi
Asako Matsumura
Hidenori Matsubara
Nana Miura
Mino Matsumoto
Hisashi Eguchi
Yuuga Tokuno
Mami Takino
Kazuko Amano
Yurie Oohigashi
Asuka Kojima
Haruka Yamagata
Yuki Akiyama
Asami Hayakawa
Tsukasa Miyazaki
Yusuke Inoue
Yuka Miyoshi
Sayo Mizuno
Shihoki Watanabe
Aiko Kasumi
Yosuke Fukumoto
Kaho Murakami
Kohei Yano
Mari Tomita
Kanako Awada
Masayuki Yoshihara
Miki Nishikawa
Tomoki Takase

Lead Animator:
Toshiyuki Inoue

Main Title Theme Composer:
rionos

Music Producer:
Terushige Yoshie

Original Music Composer:
Kenji Kawai

Producer:
Naoko Endo
Tomomi Kyotani
Nobuhiro Takenaka
Nobuhiro Kikuchi

Production Assistant:
Jota Nomoto
Masatane Hirosawa
Tsubasa Konishi
Yusuke Tsurumi

Prop Designer:
Takehiro Ishimoto

Publicist:
Junichi Kimura
Aya Miyamoto

Screenplay:
Mari Okada

Second Unit Director:
Tadashi Hiramatsu
Toshiya Shinohara
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Heo Jong
Masakazu Hashimoto

Sound Director:
Kazuhiro Wakabayashi

Sound Effects:
Sachiko Nishi

Sound Mixer:
Fumie Ishikura

Special Effects:
Masahiro Murakami
Sumie Murakami

Storyboard Artist:
Toshiya Shinohara
Tadashi Hiramatsu
Masahiro Ando
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Naoyoshi Shiotani
Masaki Tachibana
Mari Okada

Supervising Animation Director:
Yuriko Ishii

Theme Song Performance:
rionos

VFX Supervisor:
Michiya Kato

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