Review: Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen no Mahou (Mai Mai Miracle)
Over twenty years ago, amidst the backdrop of a rural Japanese town, My Neighbor Totoro explored both the boundless imagination and the underlying fragility of childhood, setting the standard for the genre. Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen no Mahou (released as Mai Mai Miracle in English) takes many cues from that earlier work, but diverges from the established path to present something fresh and worthwhile while simultaneously feeling like a spiritual successor. The influence of the former thus takes away no …
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