History Anime / MaquiaWhenThePromisedFlowerBlooms

* AnAesop:
** Sometimes letting someone go is the truest act of love.
** Being a good parent is full of pain and hardships, but it's worth it.
** People change with time, both physically and mentally. And it's important to acknowledge this fact and move on.
** ThePowerOfLove and how it can withstand the test of time.
** Trying to cling to something which has already come to an end is futile and ultimately self-destructive.

* SuicidalGotcha / CatchAFallingStar: Leillia throwing herself from the tower at the end to the shock of her onlooking daughter. Moments later she reemerges on the back of the last Renato. It's left [[AmbiguousSituation ambigious]] as to how much she knew of this saving grace.

* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Both Maquia and Leilla who still look fifteen as immortals while their children look older than them.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Using your unborn baby as a hostage is a sure-fire justification for the government to prevent you from ever seeing your baby after it was born.

* {{Bookends}}: Maquia's first meeting with Ariel was when the latter was a newborn infant, holding on to her hand while she swaddled him in the burnt Hibiol. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, Maquia's last meeting with Ariel is when the latter is now an aged man, holding on to her hand as he passes away before she lays the burnt Hibiol on him as a death shroud]].

* HairstyleInertia: The movie takes place over the course of several decades. This was essentially inevitable to ensure that characters would even be remotely recognizable across the numerous time skips.
** Most notably with grown-up Dita who has the same beads in her hair as when she was a little kid which helps the audience to make the connection to her [[EarlyBirdCameo earlier appearance]].

* SuicidalGotcha / SavedByThePlatformBelow: Leillia throwing herself from the tower at the end to the shock of her onlooking daughter. Moments later she reemerges on the back of the last Renato. It's left [[AmbiguousSituation ambigious]] as to how much she knew of this saving grace.

* {{Bookends}}: Maquia's first meeting with Ariel was when the latter was a newborn infant, holding on to her hand. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, Maquia's last meeting with Ariel is when the latter is now an aged man, holding on to her hand as he passes away]].

* TheStinger: In the form of an "end card" image, showing [[spoiler:Maquia, Leillia, the last Renato, and a few other Iorph back in their homeland]].

* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Medmel was conceived as an attempt to create an immortal half-Iorph child to inherit the throne. But she ended up a. being a girl, while the king wanted a boy and b. not inheriting any of the Iorphan traits of her mother, making her little more than a burden to her father's family on top of being only half-human. She's despised by them because of it, and isn't even allowed to see her mother.

* SuicidalGotcha: Leillia throwing herself from the tower at the end to the shock of her onlooking daughter. Moments later she reemerges on the back of the last Renato. It's left [[AmbiguousSituation ambigious]] as to how much she knew of this saving grace.

* EtherealWhiteDress: Iorphs wear elaborate white gowns and robes. This fits well with their status as the Clan of the Separated who are destined to fade from the world.

* PrinceCharmless: The prince of Mezarte is implied to be a hedonist who quickly lost interest in his Iroph bride. Even the common folk are skeptical of his abilities when it's noted he's the nominal head of the military.