I Kill Giants vs Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.2/10 for I Kill Giants). I Kill Giants is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 1h 55m. I Kill Giants is the older of the two (2017 against 2018). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

I Kill Giants posterI Kill Giants2017 VS Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms posterMaquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms2018
I Kill GiantsMaquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Audience score★ 6.2/10★ 8.2/10
Year20172018
Length1h 46m1h 55m
GenresDrama, FantasyAdventure, Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country–Japan
DirectorAnders WalterMari Okada
Main castImogen Poots, Zoe Saldaña, Noel Clarke, Art Parkinson, Jennifer EhleTomokazu Sugita, Hiroaki Hirata, Yuki Kaji, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Yoko Hikasa

Synopsis

I Kill Giants

Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.

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…

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