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.
Cast
Manaka Iwami
as Maquia (voice)
Miyu Irino
as Ariel (voice)
Yuuki Sakurai
as Ariel as a Child (voice)
Ai Kayano
as Leilia (voice)
Yuki Kaji
as Krim (voice)
Yoshimasa Hosoya
as Lang (voice)
Rina Sato
as Mido (voice)
Yoko Hikasa
as Dita (voice)
Miyuki Sawashiro
as Racine (voice)
Tomokazu Sugita
as Izor (voice)
