Mai Mai Miracle is a wonderful movie that primarily focuses on a friendship and its development between two girls. As well as the friendship, little adventures and resolution to conflicts for the two girls and the people around them ensue. The art and sounds for the movie are remarkable. I was thoroughly impressed by the attention to detail that included things like the sound of wind and tall grasses. Based on the countryside of Japan in the 1950s as well as the Heian period included beautiful landscaping. Characters were definitely my favorite part of the movie. With simple yet lovely character designs, the two main girls, Shinkoand Kiiko, are illustrated with natural personalities. Shinko's outgoingness and Kiiko's progress with gradual progress as a new kid were heavily developed. Along with that, the supporting characters get enough screen time that you get a feel on who they are.

I enjoyed watching this movie but, to bluntly say,this movie was just an "alright" movie and one of those films I'd recommend to watch during some free time [if nothing else is on your to watch list]. Some aspects of this movie are rather weak in my opinion such as its story line. From the synopsis, I was expecting more "magic" as it says "the two of them become engulfed in a strange incident of one thousand years earlier" -I took it literally.. My reasons for giving the movie a 6 in "Story" is because I felt that the anime was too jammed pack; the 1000 years and Tatsuyoshi thing seemed a little unattached/removable.. and my reaction to the ending was "wtf?"