Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

“I weave my life with yours.”

Maquia (Manaka Iwami) belongs to a people who stop aging in their teens, and she wants only to be left alone, so she flees when war reaches her home. In the forest she finds a baby, Ariel (Yuuki Sakurai as a child), and decides to raise him as her own. Mari Okada, directing for the first time, wrote the script herself, and P.A. Works animated it.