WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

drwhite26 I ,like Jerri from K.C., saw this movie in 1961 as a Saturday matinée in the small Midwest town I grew up in. I was fascinated by the story and the animation. Up to them it had been Woody Woodpecker and Tom and Jerry for me. The animation was very artistic and the story something very different from cartoons produces in the USA. Like Jerri cried at the end of the movie. I have been searching for the movie for several years now, but, to no avail. I hope the whom ever currently own the rights will consider sharing it with the rest of us animation addicts. It really qualifies as some of the early Anime and would be a great addition to the collectors of this genre.

powrofwill I saw this movie on the big screen when I was 9 years old. The witch was as scary and impressive as the one in Sleeping Beauty. The boy's progression through learning magic was inspiring that all things are possible.I continue to hope that this classic is not lost forever.

letterbox-2 Like Jerri LaPoint and Attila, I also saw this movie when I was very young (probably 1970). I know it as Magic Boy, because I saw it in my hometown theater for free every Saturday for about a year. I never got tired of it, and I often still think about it. It had a definite Zen feel to it, and I would give a lot to see it again. The film is classic Japanese animation, probably a lot rougher around the edges than Disney, with dubbed voices that are stiff but still quite likeable. And that's about as much as I remember about it from 32 years ago, other than I would absolutely love for my five-year-old son to see it when he turns six or seven. That gives me a little while to track it down, and any help would be appreciated. Another movie that affected me the same way was The Snow Queen (I see it titled as Snezhnaya koroleva on the IMDb site), which had a similar mixture of spine-tingling adventure, great villains and an emotional ending.

stephen-63 I saw this on first release, on the big screen. Released by MGM (Japan).It has since been shown on UK satellite tv, but a long fight sequence seems to have been cut short. The transformation fight has some similarities to the later transformation fight in Disney's The Sword in the Stone - if you can watch the two back to back, the differences in style and tone are quite interesting.Magic Boy is relatively primitive compared to modern anime, however you can still see the attention to detail, and the importance of the story telling. The sheer determination of our little hero is quite something to behold.Worth checking out if you can find it and like modern anime.