In the mid-15th century, Kyoto was plagued by a series of floods, droughts, famines, and civil wars, reducing the city to a virtual wasteland. A boy named Asura, abandoned by his parents as a baby, had to learn how to survive in the wilderness. At times, he was forced to kill to stay alive. After meeting a girl named Wakasa and an itinerant Buddhist priest, Asura finds salvation and learns how to love. With its aim of “making watercolor paintings move,” the work employs advanced conventional animation techniques. All of the characters in the film were created with computer graphics, which made it possible to move the camera freely and to imbue the work with a vivid realism.