Mari Okada, one of the most prolific screenwriters in Japan’s animation industry, has penned the stories for upwards of four dozen animated projects for screens both big and small, including beloved ...

Studios often release cursory behind-the-scenes material to tie in with their releases. Few go as far as P.A. Works. Over a year after the release of its high-fantasy epic Maquia: When the Promised ...

Prolific anime screenwriter Mari Okada is not an animator and yet fans of the Okada-penned Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and The Anthem of the Heart will immediately recognise her sensibility ...

Anime screenwriter turned director Mari Okada won Shanghai’s animation competition for 'Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms,' a tale about an immortal young girl who becomes foster mother to a ...

Hitchcock once said that drama is life with all the dull bits cut out. Well, the master of suspense sadly died long before the release of Maquia, a two-hour anime that’s full of drama and, ...

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms is a 2018 Japanese fantasy drama film written and directed by Mari Okada. The film is produced by P.A. Works, with Yuriko Ishi in charge of its animation ...

After working with screenwriter Mari Okada for a number of years, producer Kenji Horikawa needed to learn to work with the artist in a different way, as she set out to make her directorial debut with ...

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts — famous for its seminal role in the beginnings of the 19th-century Western collection and curatorship of Japanese art — chose to showcase two anime for the first time ...