Miyori no Mori
| Miyori no Mori | |
The cover of Miyori no Mori
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| ミヨリの森 | |
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| Genre | Supernatural, Slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hideji Oda |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Published | January 2004 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Miyori no Mori no Shiki | |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Magazine | Mystery Bonita |
| Original run | August 16, 2007 – November 2008 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime | |
| Directed by | Nizo Yamamoto |
| Produced by | Nippon Animation, Fuji TV |
| Written by | Satoko Okudera |
| Music by | Takefumi Haketa |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Released | August 25, 2007 |
| Manga | |
| Zoku Miyori no Mori no Shiki | |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Magazine | Mystery Bonita |
| Published | 2008 |
Miyori no Mori (ミヨリの森 Miyori no Mori, lit. "Miyori's Forest") is the title of a 2004 manga series by Hideji Oda, and the 2007 anime television film based on it. Two manga sequels, Miyori no Mori no Shiki (ミヨリの森の四季) and Zoku Miyori no Mori no Shiki (続・ミヨリの森の四季) were published in 2007 and 2008.
A TV movie was produced by Nippon Animation and aired on the Fuji TV network on August 25, 2007. It was the directorial debut of Nizo Yamamoto, known for his art direction on a number of Studio Ghibli films, as well as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Besides helming the project, Yamamoto also was the art director, and drew storyboards. The film reunited Yamamoto with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time's screenwriter Satoko Okudera. Yū Aoi starred in the film as the titular character. Miyori no Mori had a budget of ¥210 million ($1.7 million), unusually high for a television movie.
The movie begins with a flashback, from when Miyori is a baby. While on a family visit to her grandparents in Komori Village, she goes missing while her mother and father fight over being so far away from the city. The whole family searches while her grandparents dog, Kuro (meaning black) follows a trail to a massive cherry tree only to find baby Miyori playing with a bear cub. When the dog barks the bear suddenly grows to a massive size and roars, causing Kuro to turn completely white. In the mean time, a myriad of forest spirits appear; and in particular the spirit of the cherry tree (who resembles a heavenly maiden) picks Miyori up and tells her that it is her forest. We find out afterward that her parents found her in that tree and got her down.
The story then jumps ten years in the future. Miyori has become a moody, cynical ten-year-old. Her mother has recently left the family and her father is taking her to live with her grandparents as he feels he cannot take care of Miyori and work at the same time. Miyori considers herself a modern city girl from Tokyo and so resents being abandoned in the boonies. Although her grandparents are very nice, Miyori is dour and generally standoffish. Almost immediately though, strange things start to happen. On a walk she sees a massive tiger and finds her way to the old cherry tree, which was snapped in half in a bad storm in the last year. Falling asleep, she has a bad dream about her past (in the movie it's about her parents marriage failing and being bullied; while in the manga she has a sort of film noir dream about shooting her parents with a gun). The dream is consumed by a friendly forest spirit (Moguri). As more and more spirits introduce themselves to an incredulous, but increasingly surprised Miyori; she also finds out her grandmother is considered a wise woman (although also called a witch) by the locals and is considered the current human guardian of the forest.
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