The anime film Mai Mai Miracle was produced by studio Madhouse and directed by Sunao Katabuchi (Black Lagoon, Princess Arete), based on a children's fantasy novel by Nobuko Takagi. The story is set in 1955 in a town in southwestern Japan, where a nine-year-old girl named Shinko has an ancient family connection to a thousand-year-old province known as Suou. Shinko joins Kiiko, a new transfer student from her school, on a magical adventure.