Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
P.A.WORKS, Bandai Visual, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, Lantis, Cygames, Rakuonsha
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Genre:
Animation, Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
Runtime:
115
Released:
2018
Rating:
8.184
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Mari Okada
FILM OVERVIEW
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
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.
DIRECTOR
Mari Okada
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Kenji Kawai (Original Music Composer)
Naoko Endo (Producer)
Yoko Nukumizu (Background Designer)
Yusuke Ikeda (Background Designer)
Tomoaki Okada (Concept Artist)
Katsue Inoue (Color Designer)
Yuriko Ishii (Character Designer)
Michiya Kato (VFX Supervisor)
Le Mai (Background Designer)
Natsumi Murakata (Background Designer)
CAST MEMBERS
Manaka Iwami
Miyu Irino
Yuuki Sakurai
Ai Kayano
Yuki Kaji
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Rina Sato
Yoko Hikasa
Miyuki Sawashiro
Tomokazu Sugita
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Mizukami (Background Designer), Takeshi Sudo (Background Designer), Takayuki Nagashima (Background Designer), Song Lianjun (Background Designer), Ryusei Nishino (Background Designer), Zhang Yun (Background Designer), Dang Phi (Background Designer), Cao Hoang (Background Designer), Ken Arai (Background Designer), Qiu Xiaohong (Background Designer), Tomomi Nakajima (Background Designer), Do Hien (Background Designer), Izumi Hirabayashi (Background Designer), Takumu Sasaki (Background Designer), Riko Nakamura (Background Designer), Kayo Kojio (Background Designer), Naoko Yamada (Background Designer), Saori Sone (Background Designer), Wang Jie (Background Designer), Tang Zhijun (Background Designer), Yoko Kamiyama (Background Designer), Junichi Kimura (Publicist), Aya Miyamoto (Publicist), Shigeru Saito (Executive Producer), Mayumi Komori (Assistant Editor), Hirotsugu Ogisu (Executive Producer), Sachiko Nishi (Sound Effects), Jun Yukawa (Executive Producer), Shizuo Kurahashi (Foley 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