Earwig and the Witch
アーヤと魔女
“Orphan Aya is adopted by witch Bella Yaga as an assistant, tasked with winning over cold Mandrake.”
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Orphan Aya is adopted by witch Bella Yaga as an assistant, tasked with winning over cold Mandrake.
With large windows adorning its spick-and-span halls, St. Morwald's Home for Children serves as a warm refuge for displaced orphans. For 10-year-old Aya, she is perfectly content living without a normal family, especially since she has everyone at the orphanage wrapped around her finger. However, to her dismay, she is one day selected by a peculiar couple, Bella Yaga and the Mandrake. Aya soon learns that she has, in fact, been adopted by a real witch who wanted her solely as an assistant and had not even considered being her foster mother. As if that was not enough, Aya is told the one rule she must obey at all times—never disturb the Mandrake. To win the hearts of this seemingly heartless witch and the grumpy Mandrake is no easy task; but unlike other children, Aya accepts this challenge without hesitation.
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Community consensus
Derived from 43 sampled reviews
6.3/10
Score distribution
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σ 2.27 · split reception
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5.1 ptsRecommenders 8.3 · others 3.2
Score over time
2.26Verbosity
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7/10 “I really want to like this. I think the moive is super cute and the story is really great. the problem is the moive makes me want more and not in the good way. If I found out a series was coming...”
- 10/10 “This is the best Ghibli movie ever created. Nough said. Cry about it ; p This is the most Iv been glued to my seat when I watched a Ghibli movie. Earwig was a very very endearing character, and I...”
- 8/10 “Let just put it this way. People called: "This movie have ok animation" is just dumb, GKIDS and Ghibli did a fantastic job transfer the magical felling from 2D form to 3D, also keeping what make...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Earwig and the Witch begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-16495
- Format
- 1 × 82′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 1h 22m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Dec 2020 – Dec 2020
- Fall 2020
- Source
- Tv special
- media type
- Rated
- PG
- Children
- Ref.
- BS-16495
- catalog