If you like Ursula Le Guin and the Earthsea books then this is well worth watching. It takes up the story in the third book of the series – The Farthest Shore, with a bit of the fourth thrown in. I think it starts well, but the ending is a bit cheesy – par for the course of some Anime perhaps? See more information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea_%28film%29