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Lileevine · Sep 3, 2017, 04:43 PM

I'm actually looking for two movies, but I thought I'd bundle them together to avoid spamming anything.
I think at this point it'd be useful to note I both saw them in french? With how unknown they are, to the point where I occasionally wonder if my mind didn't just make them up, perhaps this'll be an important detail...
Both movies are animated, both star an Asian child... Or adolescent... As a main character, and both I've seen around 2007-2013 if I'm not mistaken.
Anyway, the first one is very much like Mulan: an Asian girl (most likely Chinese, possibly Japanese), perhaps somewhere around 18, at least 16 I think, crossdresses in order to enter somewhere (in this case, a school, not the army). I believe it's also set somewhere around the same era as Mulan, and the artstyle is also similar.
The basic plot is the girl enters the school as a boy, befriends and subsequently falls in love with a guy, after circling each other for a bit there are interventions from the main villain which ends up with the guy dead, then the girls more or less flies off with his spirit at the end.
To be more specific, I remember quite a few scenes: one of the first of the movie feature all the boys within the academy, who have had to dress up as women, and someone notes that the disguised boy (let's call her Cha for simplicity's sake) looks very good as a girl, better than all her classmates. This makes a few eyebrows raise, especially the main villain's: he's a rich, ugly kid possibly the emperor or school director's kid (let's say Lau).
He's the first to guess Cha is really a girl, but needs confirmation, and impersonates her love interest (calling him Feng now) when she invites him to meet her near a lake at night to confess her gender. Cha is distraught at the fact Lau has found her out, but Feng somehow appears and she tells him too. At first he is hesitant, but after plunging his head in the lake and thinking a bit, he decides he loves her too.
I think that she ran away in shame right before that? I'm not sure, because the next chronological event that comes to my mind is Feng trapped outside of the school, with Cha inside, as they desperately try to get him in. But some of Lau's goons start beating up Feng: he holds Cha's hand through a high, round window as he dies. The scene ends with a shot from Feng's side of the wall, where you can only see Cha's hand wildly trying to grasp his, screaming his name over and over.
For some reason, this dooms Cha to marrying Lau. She prepares for the marriage, dressing up, putting on makeup, etc. She goes to Feng's grave, telling him about how she's going to get married and how she wishes he were there. Through the sheer power of love, his ghost appears, possibly making flowers bloom all about, takes her and flies back away to presumably heaven while Lau and his goons watch on helplessly.
I'm very iffy on a lot of the details here, so if you have a movies that matches even only half of the events or anything, please do tell me!
The next one features a boy who is on a quest to find the pieces of something like a circle. I think he was much younger than Cha, around 12 perhaps. Let's call him Liu.
Liu isn't alone in his adventure. The pieces that he needs to find represent different things, I know some of them are nature, intelligence and imagination (that last one for sure). One of his companions is an anthropomorphic lynx, who's problem is that the place he lives is being destroyed by humans, and he wants to help his fellow forest dwellers. I think Liu is also helped by a young woman? I can't remember well. I know for a fact that he usually has either a lion plush or a small baby lion that goes along with him, and that he can communicate with as well.
I vaguely remember two scenes:
1. The gang drops from an air balloon in order to get into a kind of castle and fight
2. To find one of the pieces, Imagination specifically, Liu has to answer a riddle: "what sound does one hand that claps make" (the same as two hands and he gets the piece)
The part I remember best here is Liu's final showdown with the bad guy (let's call him Inferno): each have an equal amount of pieces, either two or three each, but Inferno has more "powerful" ones like Intelligence, while Liu has Nature and Imagination. After some fighting, the tiny baby lion turns into a big, powerful one, completely red I believe. He wins, absorbs all the pieces of the circle, turns out to be the guardian to some kind of portal, and sends everyone back home through it. I think they turned out to all be from different dimension? Or just parts of the world which are very far away from each other.
Once again, I am very unsure about the majority of details, so please tell me if you have anything relating to these. Thank you very much.

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