Maquia - When The Promised Flower Blooms (朝花夕誓——于离别之朝束起约定之花)

Don't be fool by the cover page above, its not another story or films that is about some teenager love story, but instead a mother and son.

I come across this animation films by totally accident, saw a short video about it on my YouTube recommendation section, got curious and look for it.

To my surprise is, this is a very good film with very fine animation details too. But however it receive little attention, their box office grossing is only less than 5 millions. Oh did i mention, this film received 100% rating from Rotten Tomatoes.

Im just going to give a very very brief plot at the starts, so that you can know what will happen while not spoiled if you decided to watch it: 

Maquia's race is called Iorph, and being dubbed as "the Clan of the Separated". They age very slowly compare to human and their looks stay young even for hundreds of years. Then 1 night soldiers of Mezarte riding their ancient flying wyverns called Renato and invade their village. Killing most of them and kidnapped Maquia's best friend Leilia, while Maquia due to one of the wyvern went berserk and left the village with Maquia on it then succumbs to the "red eye" sickness and die in a forest, after Maquia wakes up she found herself in an abandon camp that were just attacked by bandits, an infant was in a deceased mother arm, and Maquia adopted the infant named him Ariel and live in a nearby village. (in this time Maquia actual age is only 15 by humans years)

Ok im going stop with the plot here, while in between tons of things happen, like a war broke out and Ariel grow up realize that his mother is more or less immortal. 

and the ending you can guess, an immortal with a human child, how would that end? its bitter sweet  thou, but more like 99 % bitter.

So after watching this, reminded myself a question i used to ask myself a lot, what if im immortal or can live few thousands years? 

For me immortality is a cursed, not a gift. the only reason i want to be immortal is i wanted to see how far human can go, currently this generation is too late to see technology blooms, and too early for space travel.

While being immortal and just to see your loved one leave one by one and yet you stayed. 

Everyone is afraid of death, so do I, but im much more afraid being left alone.