History Animation / Mutya

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Urbanization eventually overwhelms the forest, leaving one tree standing surrounded by garbage. The large forest spirit finds the girl in the city (now an old woman) passing away in her sleep. Time passes and several good Samaritans work to convert the junkyard into a playground. While children are playing, a little girl runs towards the last living tree, her color scheme changes to purple and plays with an invisible presence, [[AWorldHalfFull implying that the spirits will continue to live on in some form.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Urbanization eventually overwhelms the forest, leaving one tree standing surrounded by garbage. The large forest spirit finds the girl in the city (now an old woman) passing away in her sleep. Time passes and several good Samaritans work to convert the junkyard into a playground. While children are playing, a little girl runs towards the last living tree, her color scheme changes to purple and plays with an invisible presence, implying that the spirits will continue to live on in some form.]]

''Mutya'' is an award winning 2009 animated short film made in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}. The title "Mutya" could be translated as "beauty" in English.

When a young girl wanders off to the forest, she suddenly meets a bunch of forest spirits who seem to only appear to her. Nevertheless, she continued to befriend them as the years go by, even in the midst of increasing deforestation.

Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLH4iVQseL4 here]] on Website/YouTube.

The beginning was, when a young girl wanders off to the forest, she suddenly meets a bunch of forest spirits that seemingly, only she can see for when her mother found her, she's dancing all by herself. Nevertheless, even as she grew, she never forgot them and she visited them despite the very forest was starting to get swallowed up by urbanization.

* AnimatedAdaptation: It is said in the credits to be based on a story. But not a true story.

* ComingOfAge: An clear presentation. First, we see her as a little girl (picture above), [[ShesAllGrownUp then as a teenager]], then as a mother, and the very last as an old woman.

* ComingOfAge: An obvious presentation. First, we see her as a little girl (picture above), [[ShesAllGrownUp then as a teenager]], then as a mother, and the very last as an old woman.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Urbanization eventually overwhelms the forest, leaving one tree standing surrounded by garbage. The large forest spirit finds the girl in the city (now an old woman) passing away in her sleep. Time passes and several good samaritans work to convert the junkyard into a playground. While playing, a little girl runs towards the last living tree, her color scheme changes to purple and plays with an invisible presence, implying that the spirits will continue to live on and the little girl possibly a descendant of the girl the spirits used to play with.]]

* ColorContrast: Predominantly, the girl protagonist around many harmonizing colored people and environment.

* DarkReprise: The background music uses an orchestral version of the traditional song "Bahay Kubo". It played in the beginning. As it was played again, it became quite haunting when they're showing the one last tree.

* GreenAesop: Slightly. It ends with [[spoiler: the forest being destroyed--save for one tree--and being turned into a junkyard of sorts until a group of people decide to work together to turn it into a park with grass all over.]]
* HopeSpot: The girl--now grown up with a family of her own--still continues to visit the spirits, occasionally planting saplings on the ground in an attempt to make up for the trees that had been chopped up to construct the village. [[spoiler: But her alone couldn't stop the buildings from being built as the village becomes a bustling city, resulting in the forest being mostly gone.]]
* NatureSpirit

* SkipOfInnocence: The little girl does this [[spoiler: as does another girl in the end, many years later.]]

* {{Xenofiction}}

[[caption-width-right:333: [[Anime/SpiritedAway Chihiro]], she ain't.]]

* GreenAesop: Slightly. It ends with [[spoiler: the forest being destroyed--save for one tree--and being turned into a junkyard of sorts until a group of people decide to work together to turn it into a playground with grass all over.]]

* CallToAgriculture: [[spoiler: A group of people decide to clean up the garbage surrounding the one tree, turning it into a grassy playground for children.]]

* GreenAesop: Pretty much so. [[spoiler: Though the forest wasn't fully saved, the people have managed to make it a grassy playground for the children to play on, with one tree left of the once vibrant forest]].

* BlushSticker

* FriendToAllLivingThings

* SkipOfInnocence
* SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty: The girl protagonist is outstandingly purple among those the people who are as colored as the atmosphere around them.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Urbanization eventually overwhelms the forest, leaving one tree standing surrounded by garbage. The large forest spirit finds the girl in the city (now an old woman) passing away in her sleep. Time passes and several good samaritans work to convert the junkyard into a playground. While playing, a little girl runs towards the last living tree and plays with an invisible presence, implying that the spirits will continue to live on and her color scheme changing to purple also implying she might be the descendant of the little girl that used to play with the spirits.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Quite common in stories like these. Yet it happened in such a way [[spoiler: where the urbanization got so out of hand, the forest ended up becoming bare and the solitary tree in it is standing around garbage. The largest forest spirit, wondering where the girl that visited them has gone, goes to the city to find her. After searching in many different buildings, he finds the girl (now as an old woman) in the bedroom surrounded by her family as she passes away in her sleep, holding a flower that seemed to be the last flower of the dead forest.]]

* CallToAgriculture: Okay, that BittersweetEnding trope is subverted thanks to this. [[spoiler: A group of people decided to clean up the garbage surrounding the one tree and decided to make it into a grassy playground for children.]]

* GreenAesop: Pretty much so. [[spoiler: Though the forest wasn't fully saved, the people have managed to make it a grassy playground for the children to play on. The last tree remains]].

* HopeSproutsEternal[=/=]SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler: The poor old woman that used to be the little girl dies in her apartment building. So sad... Who will visit the remaining forest spirits in the tree? Then in the newly built playground, we see a girl playing hide and seek with her friends. Suddenly, the tree caught her attention and she goes to it. Her colors change to the same shade of purple as the child in the beginning and dances around it as if she was playing with something or some''one''. [[AnAesop It just goes to show that]][[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender some friendships are so strong, they can last for more than one lifetime]]]].