Mary and the witches' flower

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Anime movie
title Mary and the witches' flower
Original title メ ア リ と 魔女 の 花
transcription Meari to Majo no Hana
Mary and the Witch's Flower logo.png
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2017
Studio Studio Ponoc
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi
script Riko Sakaguchi , Hiromasa Yonebayashi
production Yoshiaki Nishimura
music Takatsugu Muramatsu
synchronization

Mary and the witch's flower ( Japanese メ ア リ と 魔女 の 花 , Meari to Majo no Hana ) is a cartoon released in 2017 by the studio Ponoc , directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and produced by Yoshiaki Nishimura . It is based on the children's book "The Bewitched Broom" by Mary Stewart . It is Studio Ponoc's first feature film and grossed $ 41.7 million worldwide.

The film tells the story of a girl named Mary Smith, who finds a mysterious flower called “Night Flight ” ( 夜間 飛行 , Yakan Hikō ). This flower gives her the strength to become a witch for one night. The film was released in Japan on July 8, 2017. In Germany, the film was shown in selected cinemas on September 13 and 16, 2018.

action

A magical laboratory has caught fire. A red-haired girl slips away with a bag, but is seen and followed. The girl manages to escape on her flying broom, but a massive explosion knocks her off her broom. The broom and the bag fall to the floor. Magic seeds spill out of the bag, making the plants and animals in the area grow quickly.

The young Mary Smith moves into her great-aunt Charlotte's British estate. The bored, friendless girl creates confusion while trying to make herself useful by doing household chores. A local boy named Peter annoys her for her clumsiness and wild red hair, which she hates.

Tib and Gib, Peter's cats, lead Mary to mysteriously glowing flowers in the forest. Zebedee, the estate gardener, assigns the flowers to the “night flight” species, which are said to confer magical powers. The next day, Gib disappears and Mary follows Tib to look for her. Tib leads them to a broomstick caught in a tree root. Mary frees the broom, but accidentally breaks a "night flight". The flower releases magical power in the form of a blue gelatinous substance, which spreads over the broom, whereupon it comes to life and allows Mary to ride it like a witch. The little broom kidnaps Mary and Tib to a complex of buildings that is hidden in the clouds. Flanagan, a fox creature who takes care of the students' brooms, scolds her for crashing her broom and tells her that she is at Endor University for Witches.

The headmistress, Madam Mumblechook, assumes Mary is a new student, with Tib more confidant, and takes her on a tour of the university. The tour unveils a campus of modern technology and amenities where witches take courses in magical arts alongside areas of science such as chemistry. During the tour Madam Mary leads to Doctor Dee, the famous chemistry professor at the university. Mary can perform advanced spells like invisibility. Madam Mumblechook and Doctor Dee believe that Mary is a child prodigy because of her performance and red hair, which is a hallmark of the strongest witches.

In Madam's office, Mary finds a magic book that is hidden behind a picture of a “night flight”. Mary admits that her magical ability comes from the "night flight" and that Tib actually belongs to Peter. Madam Mumblechook's attitude towards Mary suddenly changes, but she lets Mary return home. The magic granted to Mary by the flower ends when the sun goes down, and Mary barely manages to get home safely. That night, Madam Mumblechook sends Mary a message informing her that she has kidnapped Peter and requests that Mary bring her the "Night Flight" flower. She and Tib fly back to Endor with the flowers. Madam Mumblechook and Doctor Dee lock them up in Doctor Dee's transformation lab. Mary finds Peter in the lab and discovers that Doctor Dee has experimented on animals, including Gib, and turned them into fantastic creatures. In the spell book, Mary finds a spell that can undo all magic and uses it to undo all transformations and unlock the laboratory. When they try to escape, they find themselves cornered on a balcony, only to have Flanagan take away the small broom and he berates Mary for leaving the broom lying around. Mary then escapes, but Madam Mumblechook and Doctor Dee catch Peter again.

The little broom brings Mary to an isolated house. In the cabin, Mary finds notes on transmutation spells and a mirror that Great-Aunt Charlotte uses to contact her. Charlotte reveals that the cabin was her previous home and she herself a red-haired student in Endor, just like the one from the introduction. One day Charlotte found the “night flight”, which forced Madam Mumblechook and Doctor Dee to pursue a project to use the flower to turn people into witches. When her experiment failed catastrophically, Charlotte decided to escape Endor and take the flower with her. Charlotte asks Mary to use her last bud to return home, but Mary vows to save Peter instead.

When Mary tries to return to Endor, Madam Mumblechook chases her down and reclaims the spellbook. The book is in air tracking and Mary crashes near the lab. The little broom breaks and the magic of the flower dies. Mary makes her way to the lab and finds that Madam Mumblechook and Doctor Dee are trying to use the flower to turn Peter into an all-powerful witch. The experiment fails again and leaves Peter trapped in a gall-like monster that rages through the laboratory, consuming the magic of everyone on its way. Mary gets the spell book from Madam Mumblechook and realizes that Peter can now use magic. She takes Peter's hand from the inside of the monster and gives him the book with the spell to reverse the magic so he can activate it. It reverses the failed experiment and all related investigations by Madam Mumblechook and Doctor Dee. The laboratory is destroyed.

Mary wakes up in the ruins of the laboratory, which is completely overgrown. Flanagan gives her back her broom after he fixes it and scolds her for leaving her broom wherever she wants. The two take the broom home with them, but as it flies, Peter sees a "night flight" bud in her hair. She throws them away and says she doesn't need magic anymore. The last bud of the flower explodes in midair, making it clear that it no longer needs magic. Mary returns home and goes to school with Peter. The little broom leans against the wall of the mansion, home.

synchronization

character Japanese voice actor German voice actor
Mary Smith Hana Sugisaki Laura Jenni
Madam Mumbleshook Yūki Amami Elisabeth Günther
Doctor Dee Fumiyo Kohinata Kai Taschner
Flanagan Jiro Sato Claus-Peter Damitz
Great Aunt Charlotte /
Young Charlotte 		Shinobu Otake /
Hikari Mitsushima 		Marion Hartmann /
Soraya Richter
Peter Ryunosuke Kamiki Tim Schwarzmaier
Banks Eriko Watanabe Angelika Bender
Zebedee Ken'ichi Endo Erich Ludwig

music

The composer Muramatsu Takatsugu , who also composed the music for Yonebayashi's last film " Memories of Marnie ", was also responsible for the music for "Mary and the witches' flower". Joshua Messick , one of the world's leading interpreters of the chopping board , helped with the composition. The end credits were accompanied by the song "Rain" by the band Sekai no Owari .

publication

Mary and the Witch's Flower was released on July 8, 2017 in Japan by distributor Tōhō on 456 screens across Japan. Altitude Film Sales announced at the Berlin International Film Festival that it had acquired the worldwide rights to the film. Peppermint Anime announced on November 16, 2017 that it had secured the license to the film. As part of the AKIBA PASS Festival, the film was broadcast with German subtitles in winter 2017. The film was shown in selected cinemas on September 13 and 16, 2018. The release on DVD & Blu-Ray was on December 4th, 2018.

Awards

The film placed 2nd in the Japanese cinema charts in the opening week.

Trivia

"Mary and the witches' flower" is the first feature film by Studio Ponoc, founded in 2015, and was mainly produced by former employees of the renowned Studio Ghibli . It was deliberately designed based on earlier Ghibli works and was intended in particular to serve as a modernized version of the 1989 film " Kiki's Small Delivery Service ". Furthermore, the Ghibli founders Hayao Miyazaki , Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki are listed in the credits of the film under the heading "Thank you" ( 感謝 , Kansha ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 長 編 - 作品 カ テ ゴ リ ー - STUDIO PONOC (ス タ ジ オ ポ ノ ッ ク) . In: Studio Ponoc . December 15, 2016. Archived from the original on February 5, 2017. Retrieved on February 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ JP: Meari to majo no hana (Mary and the Witch \ 's Flower) (2017) - JPBox Office. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ youtube.com - Mary and the Witches Flower - Trailer Premiere , accessed on September 19, 2018
  4. ↑ a b Mary and the witches' flower - theatrical release - peppermint anime. Retrieved September 15, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Mary and the witches' flower. Retrieved September 15, 2018 .
  6. ^ Mary and the Witch's Flower Original Soundtrack .
  7. ↑ Hammered Dulcimer on 'Mary and The Witch's Flower' soundtrack .
  8. ↑ Mary & the Witch's Flower Anime Film Earns 428 Million Yen to Open at # 2 . Anime News Network . July 10, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  9. ^ Altitude Film Sales Acquires Worldwide Rights to Mary and the Witch's Flower Anime Film . Anime News Network . February 2, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  10. ↑ peppermint anime licensed "Mary and the Witch's Flower" . In: Anime2You - your anime-news source . ( anime2you.de [accessed on September 16, 2018]).
  11. ↑ a b Mary and the witch's flower - peppermint anime. Retrieved September 16, 2018 (German).
  12. ↑ Mary and the Witch Bluray's Flowers. Retrieved on September 23, 2018 (German).
  13. ↑ news-wakaru.com - メ ア リ と 魔女 の 花 ロ ケ 地 や 主人公 の 性格 は？ 原作 を ネ タ バ レ レ し 映 画 内容 を 考察！ , accessed on September 21, 2018
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