This animation starts extremely lame. That is, compared to the rest of story. At first I thought I got some kind of cheesy ghost-busting anime with weird-looking synthesis of computer graphics and regular animation. But if you can accept (or endure) occasional splashes of barrel and spell fighting you'll find in this movie an engrossing love drama with interesting plot turns and a bunch of original art. Although the mage characters seem to be low grade in comparison to two main ones the battle system mechanics is pretty interesting too and quite detailed. So after all 'low-gradeness' of mages could be a trick to make main characters stand out.
This version of the story is WAY better than any real movie interpretations. Very recommended.
This version of the story is WAY better than any real movie interpretations. Very recommended.