YMMV / Mutya

• Awesome Art: The animation is very fluid, and the limited color palette gives it a unique style reminiscent of a story book.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The friendship between the girl and the forest spirits, bonding with them well into adulthood.
  • A little girl (who is implied to be a descendant of the recently-deceased protagonist) playing underneath the tree when she sees something and her colors change to that familiar shade of purple. In short, its ending.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Seeing the forest practically dead and the tree in the middle of a makeshift dumpsite. Also, the tree only containing a few of the forest spirits meaning that the majority of them are gone too.
  • The girl is last seen as an old woman dying gently in her sleep surrounded by her family with the giant forest spirit watching nearby.
    • When the scene fades to a shot of the old woman's hands resting on the flower that the giant forest spirit gave to her, the music just...stops. It's the auditory equivalent of a punch in the gut.

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