Mary and The Witch's Flower

Mary and the Witch's Flower is a cute anime movie about a girl who finds some flowers in the woods, which lead her into a dangerous fight against a witch and wizard headmistress and scientist in a mysterious school. The movie has a lot of really cute parts. The animation style is really great, I very much appreciated it, and the stranger character designs for the monsters. It's a bit reflective of Howl's Moving Castle (pretty sure the studio is made of people who left Ghibli). The colours are so vibrant. Japanese voice actors are really good and it was kind of refreshing to have all the characters be English/westerners even with Japanese voice actors. The story is alright, I liked it but there are definitely some flawed parts, like how dark the movie got out of nowhere and the overall resolution to the story. It really didn't feel like it ended that well. I liked the characters but Mary is unbelievably impulsive and a bit thick and I felt annoyed. Peter is alright but there is almost no character development between the two and their relationship (as friends). Worth a watch just for the cats.