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MayaвЂ™s trip to the fighting pit wins her only a dislocated shoulder the coronation goes ahead, attended by representatives of the storyвЂ™s three other kingdoms. (There is a lot of fighting in the series, both as battle and, eventually, as courtship, in the way that Fred and Ginger didnвЂ™t get along until they danced together - among other things, this is a teen romance.) So she sneaks out at night to the вЂњillegal bare-knuckle fighting pitвЂќ to take on an opponent 20 times her size sheвЂ™s got spunk, but sheвЂ™s also a bit of a bratty teenager. (And itвЂ™s worth a rewatch to get a better sense of the elaborate design and to pick up bits of the story you may have been missed while looking at the pictures. To say it can be a little corny and sentimental, though usually with a joke to pull things back from the brink of mawkishness, is only to say it has heart in any case, it worked on me visually and emotionally, as thoroughly on a second viewing as on the first. Its eccentricities, even its occasional awkwardness, are not distinct from its poetry. Yet one feels - though it canвЂ™t actually be the case given that it takes a heap of help to make an animated feature - that the route from sketchbook to screen was a short one. Spread out over nine episodes, вЂњMayaвЂќ is a sprawling affair with intricately worked out action and a digressive plot. ItвЂ™s been too long an absence for a singular talent.

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GutiГ©rrez, whose earlier works include the 2014 feature вЂњ The Book of LifeвЂќ and the 2007 Nickelodeon series вЂњEl Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera.вЂќ Fans of either will find themselves at home in this Mesoamerican epic, with its mix of folkloric motifs, comedy and anime-derived action fans of both should be filled with joy.

вЂњMaya and the Three,вЂќ which premieres Friday on Netflix, is a big, animated epic from Jorge R.

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