This adaptation is truly perfect. The original adaptation and the book are both very dear to me, and this hit for me. I got emotional and teary eyed from happiness and goosebumps several times each episode. Praise whoever did the casting! The cinematography is amazing, the costuming, sfx, character designs and the CAMERA WORK!!!! There's a few drone shots in one of the episodes that are absolutely insane! The aesthetic captures the essence and atmosphere of the book exactly, i felt placed in the universe! The score is also so so beautiful, and i LOVE that they kept alot of the original music! The writing and screenplay is really good and honest, it understands their characters and it fully respects and stays true to the source material. The reimagined and new b-plot storylines were unexpected and sometimes hard to follow, yet, it did need them to work as a multiple episode show and to grasp a new audience, and i hope the rest of the viewers can see and understand that as well. Although it does worry me if it could make Ronja and Birk's protest less powerful. I liked the fact we get to see a reason for Borka's moving and how he knows his way inside the fortress, and an origin lore for the hostility.
All in all, i really did love it and it fills my heart with pure happiness and childlike wonder!
All in all, i really did love it and it fills my heart with pure happiness and childlike wonder!