NAGI NO ASUKARA
STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
26
RELEASE
April 3, 2014
LENGTH
24 min
DESCRIPTION
Since long ago, human civilization had lived on the ocean floor. However, there were many humans who wanted to live above the surface and they moved to land creating a fundamental separation between the two. After their school closes down, four 14-year-old middle school students from the sea village, Shioshishio, have to attend Mihama Middle School on the surface. What follows is their struggles to adjust to a new environment and the relationships between the sea and land people, while dealing with their own newfound feelings that have just started appearing with the end of their childhood.
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CAST
Chisaki Hiradaira
Ai Kayano
Miuna Shiodome
Mikako Komatsu
Manaka Mukaido
Kana Hanazawa
Tsumugu Kihara
Kaito Ishikawa
Hikari Sakishima
Natsuki Hanae
Kaname Isaki
Ryouta Oosaka
Sayu Hisanuma
Kaori Ishihara
Uroko
Kousuke Toriumi
Akari Sakishima
Kaori Nazuka
Akira Shiodome
Shizuka Ishigami
Shun Sayama
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Itaru Shiodome
Junji Majima
Sensei
Hironori Saitou
Tomoru Sakishima
Masuo Amada
Isamu Kihara
Motomu Kiyokawa
Kaori Akiyoshi
Yurika Kubo
Yuu Seiki
Ikumi Hayama
Ojoshi-sama
Saori Hayami
Takeshi Egawa
Kengo Kawanishi
Satoru Mihashi
Shinji Kawada
Miori Shiodome
Aya Endou
Atsushi Minegishi
Ayumu Murase
EPISODES
Dubbed
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REVIEWS
Zaphkiel
85/100Love is like the seaContinue on AniList__Love is like the sea__ Intro
Nagi no Asukara really seems to me like a crossover between Ponyo and Anohana because it's about some teengaers from the ocean and there is a lot of drama and romance in it. The sea and land are beautifully drawn and the relationships between characters are fun to watch grow.
There are these middle school students who must go to the school on the surface because the school in the sea was shut down. There is a city underwater known as Shishishio and a city by the sea on the surface known as Oshioshi (might want to check that though :P Edit: As of writing this review, I had not seen the show in the while and I had done it late a night. My apologies). If you need your romance/drama fix, look no further.
Story
There are two segments to Nagi no Asukara. The first segment introduces everyone and explores the differences between people who live underwater and then who live on the surface. This is where the main conflict in the first half arises. The second half happens five years after the events in the first arc happened and goes more in depth in the relationships that will blossom. I thought this was a brilliant move. As the first arc ends (with all of its chaos and things going on towards the end), you get excited to see what will happen next and the second arc feels like a whole new show or even a season 2.
This is a slice of life series but it has the element of romance so there will be lots of pairings going on. The pairs you think will get together around the middle of the series will change completely and I liked that because it was unexpected in a good way. You may not be happy with the final pairings (I wasn't, but it was still satisfying) but it's just one of those "too bad" things. There is a big love polygon going on throughout the show and it grows during the second half. In the second arc, I began to think differently about some characters so it was interesting to see how their character developed over time.
The story in the first arc may feel slow at first, but if you can stick with it, it will be quite rewarding.
Characters
The main cast includes five middle school students. First is Hikari, a hotheaded and short-tempered boy. As usual, he is a pretty annoying lead MC. Then there's Manaka, who is the really energetic crybaby. Kaname is the kind and nice guy and Chisaki is a tall and somewhat nervous girl. All of them possess a trait known as Ena. Ena is a thin film on the skin of people who live in the sea that lets them breathe underwater. If you stay on the surface too long, your Ena can dry up (so Hikari and his friends periodically soak in a pond near their school filled with salt water). Then they meet another boy named Tsumugu on the surface, who is often quiet and is just that one cool guy.
There are quite a few other side characters such as Hikari's sister, her daughter Miuna, Miuna's friend Sayu, and Hikari's father, who is the head priest of the town underwater. Then there is Uroko, who serves the Sea God (and often refers himself as a 'scale' of the Sea God). He watches over Shishishio. As the story progresses, it focuses the plot around these characters.
Character design is beautiful and the characters are able to create many new relationships during their time on the surface. Development of these characters is quite impressive as well.
Animation and Sound
NagiAsu, in my own opinion, is the best from P.A Works when it comes to animation. The beautiful sea scenes really make this show pop. The water is a nice blue and you can see schools of fish swimming by in the village underwater. The reflection of the sun adds for an impressive lighting effect. Life down under looks really relaxed. This really shines during the OP and ED sequences.
Personal Enjoyment
Being able to get to know so many characters and to be able to bond over time throughout the show is quite an experience. All of the romantic tension and slice of life aspects of this show make it a pleasure to watch. I really enjoyed it and if this is your preferred genre, you will too.
ConlcusionOverall, Nagi no Asukara is a wonderful slice of life, drama, and romance series. It adds the element of the sea which I really liked. I don't have any complaints about this series at all (other than it's rather slow parts but this is nothing that should stop you from watching it). It's well done and the art is fabulous. The first arc might not be that interesting, but I say definitely stick around for the second one. This was probably my favorite anime of its season. If you've just finished Glasslip and you think P.A Works hasn't come out with a great show, think again.
spratty
85/100A story shining with emotions. Memorable and fun.Continue on AniListNagi no Asukara or A Lull in the Sea does well in telling a story full detail and so many shining emotions. Four friends who live in the sea: Hikari, Manaka, Chisaki and Kaname, must attend a school on the surface after their middle school is closed down. These characters must face their new environment and deal with the issues between the people of Shioshishio (the people from the sea) and Oshioshi (the people living on land). On the surface they make new friends and face new emotions that stir up within them. While watching this series I was enthralled by each of the journeys that the characters took and enjoyed seeing them grow and develop.
STORY
I found the story to be great. It was interesting and had my attention most of the time. The lore of the story is definitely great and you could tell it was thought out well unlike a recent anime that just finished (FRANXX) which had interesting lore, but the explanation was just lazy and a complete ass pull.The first half of the story deals with the main characters adjusting to their new environment and facing the problems between the people from the land and sea. The two different populations feel bitter towards each other. They blame each other for their problems. The people of Shioshishio blame the people living on the surface for the decrease in their population. Over the years men and women have left the sea village to marry someone they love who lives on the surface. If this occurs, a person from the sea is banned from returning. People of the sea are born with ena which is a special coating that allows them to breathe underwater. An offspring from someone from the surface and someone from the sea is not born with ena which means that the population of Shioshishio has decreased over time.
Because of the adults, the kids are prejudice against the people on the surface and vice versa. The kids begin to bond through the building of Ojoshi-sama and realize they are not bad people and are actually very much alike. Uroko-Sama or also known as the scale of the Sea God, tells that a disastrous event will occur, and the world will freeze and the people of Shioshishio must hibernate. The people on the surface will be left to die. The children hope to reach the sea god through the Ofunehiki and stop the drastic event from occurring.
SPOILER: In the end the Ofunehiki does not go as planned. The sea god is mad and Hikari and Kaname end up going into hibernation with the rest of the village and Manaka becomes the sacrifice for the Sea god. Chisaki is stranded on the land with no family or friends.
The second part of the story deals with the change that the characters have gone through. Most of the characters have their emotions all over the place. They feel loss, sadness, anger, loneliness and vulnerability and most overcome these feelings. The world itself has also gone through change and they must find a way to resolve the issue with the God of the Sea before anything drastic happens.
The world has slowly begun to freeze five years after the Ofunehiki and the characters must reverse this affect.
Both parts of the story deal with change, with both parts focusing on the fear of change and coming to terms with change occurring. The way the anime dealt with this was done really good in my opinion. It was nothing special but I understood the way the characters were feeling and it truly resonated with me. Change can happen. And that's okay. Change doesn't have to happen. Whatever is fine.
CHARACTERS
Other than the four main characters, there is also Tsumugu, a boy who loves the sea, Miuna, the daughter of a man from the surface and a woman of the sea and Uroko, the scale of the sea god who takes care of the village of Shioshishio. There are other characters as well, but I can’t name all of them.The characters were likeable and the chemistry between them was good. Their friendships feel real and so do their emotions. They were pretty realistic for the most part. Characters had some development whether it was big or small. Secondary characters in the first half of the story become main characters in the second half. Two characters that I liked were Hikari and Chisaki.
Hikari started off as a person who was very aggressive and hated the people on the surface. At first, I found his character really annoying but seeing him grow changed my view on him. He cares for his friends deeply which is the reason for his aggressive nature. Hikari begins to become more understanding of others and becomes a bit calmer. His core traits are still there but he grows a lot as a character, becoming more mature by the end of the story.
For example, when it comes to Akari, Hikari's sister, Hikari does not approve of her relationship with her boyfriend who is from the surface, but he begins to understand the people of the land he wants his sister to be happy and accepts her choice even if it means she can't return to the sea anymore.Chisaki is another character who goes through development. She cares about her friends deeply as well and usually puts them ahead of herself. She pretends to be mature even though she's the same age as them. When her and her friends start a new school on the surface, she doesn’t like the new feelings that begin to stir within her and her friends. It makes her sad seeing her friends go through pain, suffering and vulnerability. She feels as if the four of them are changing. She wishes she can go back in time to the days where they were still in school in the sea. When everything was normal between them. She hates change yet she's the one who ends up changing the most. She must deal with it and accept the fact that she has grown as a person. She might have matured but deep inside her core traits are still within her and when her friends tell her she is still the same, it makes her happy. I found myself resonating with her.
VISUALS AND AUDIO
The visuals for this show were really something. Seeing the sea and the world of Shioshishio was incredible. A lot of thought and detail went into creating the visuals and making them as stunning as possible. The scenery combined with the music from the anime made for some real memorable scenes which I know will be stuck in my head for a long time.The score felt like an anime titanic OST and certain tracks reminded me of kimi no Nawa.Scenes that stood out to me where Shioshishio and the ceremony of the Ofunehiki in episodes 13, 24 and 25
FINAL THOUGHTS
I really enjoyed the hell out of this anime. I believe this is a hidden gem that not many people know about. Or I possibly don't realize that it's pretty popular. It did have kind of a slow start. I really wasn’t into the first few episodes, but it did pick up pretty quick and I ended up binge watching the final episodes. An issue I have is the second half kinda felt like a repeat of the first. Also this is just me nitpicking but the whole live triangle thing was kinda annoying. It wasn’t even a triangle bruh, this shit was like a frickin love dodecagon or something. Like this person loved someone but that person loved someone else and that person had feelings for another person and so on. Like man this thing is all over the place. Still a good romance though. There really aren’t any real issues with the show that bothered me. Was I satisfied with the final relationships? Eh, not really. There was one in particularChisaki and Tsumuguin which I felt was off and there was very little chemistry between them. But that’s just me. I also wished certain characters would get more development but it’s fine. Overall this was a good series that I see myself rewatching sooner or later. I would write way more about how much I enjoyed this series but I hate making reviews really long. This is already long enough. When I find an anime or show that moves me, I don’t watch anything more the next day or two just to let everything sink in. A Lull in The Sea was this show for me. If you haven't seen this anime I highly recommend you go watch it. I give it a 8.5/10._Change can happen and that is okay. But it doesn't have to happen. Whatever is fine._ TheRealKyuubey
50/100Could have been so much better.Continue on AniListGoing to a new school is never easy. Having to uproot your life and leave behind everything you know just to satisfy whatever reason your parents have that you’re too young to understand is hardly fair for anyone, even though sometimes there’s no choice in the matter. But what’s even more unfair is when your family’s situation has nothing to do with it… When your school closes down, and without a formal establishment left to provide you with an education, you have to either go to a neighboring school where you’ll have the immediate disadvantage or to home school where you may never have opportunities to see your old friends again. this is the dilemma that’s been posed to Hikari, Manaka, and their friends Chisaki and Kaname, who’ve been forced to abandon their failing Nami Junior High and migrate to Mihama Middle School, and to make matters worse, they face discrimination the minute they set foot on campus… Not because of the color of their skin or the way they speak, but because of WHERE they’ve come from… Shioshishio, the village under the sea.
No, that’s not just a bizarre local catchphrase… Our four heroes are basically amphibious mermaids without tails. They can breathe with ease both in and out of the water, but need to be periodically drenched in salt water to keep themselves from dehydrating. At Hikari’s insistence, they all come to school wearing their old uniforms, a show of pride and resistance against their new day-to-day environment, which is an attitude their new classmates are all too willing to share, making comments about them smelling fishy and rejecting them as inhuman beings. On the surface(Pun not intended), this separation could be seen as a good thing, because if a surface dweller and a sea dweller ever cross the line with each other, the latter will be banished from Shioshishio and forced to live the rest of their lives as a human, which is a curse that has become all too common in the recent past. With vitriolic prejudice tormenting them on one side and the charms of one open-minded boy tempting them from the other, will these four fish out of water be able to balance their lives between home and school, or are both surf and turf headed for a new ice age hundreds of years in the making?
While Studio Bones may be my favorite animation studio in terms of content output, PA Works is probably the best one I’ve seen in terms of quality and visual consistency. I’ve commented before on how Kyoto Animation, Studio Gainax and JC Staff can put out great looking shows that break down and become really cheap looking whenever the budget gets cut too thin, but PA Works is the few where I don’t think I’ve ever seen this happen. I can easily say the same thing for their 2013 offering, A Lull in the Sea, because the budget doesn’t really drop until the second half, and even then, it’s a pretty difficult drop for the inexperienced to notice. Visually, this series is just as teeming with life as any ocean, and this is especially clear in the ocean, where there are schools of fish swimming around through the environment, in both the background, foreground, and once in a while they even interact with the sea dwelling humans on screen.
Character animation is also crisp and fresh, with little pieces of extra effort sprinkled in here and there to make their movements underwater feel more realistic, and to make their lack of practice moving above water feel a little more awkward. The character designs are nothing too extravagant, especially with most of the nameless adults looking more or less the same, and the only character who doesn’t look like he’d been pulled from the real world being the Sea God’s remnant, Uroko-sama. The kids look fairly generic, but for the most part, their personalities are so distinct that you won;t have any trouble remembering what each one looks like. Their facial expressions are also very fluidly animated, highly expressive, and full of either youthful passion or adult stoicism, depending on the character. I did of course mention the animation budget drops in the second half, and thankfully, there’s a canonical reason for this.
I won’t spoil what happens halfway through the series, but what I will say is that there’s a reason for the underwater setting to lose all of it’s fish and most of it’s people, and there’s also a reason for both sea and surface to a more intensely white color palette. The lack of underwater visual effects cannot be explained, however, but the lack of diverse expressions and extra movement can be traced back to a major shift in focus and tone, as there’s just a lot less going on in the second half than there is in the first half. More on that later, but I’m pretty sure a huge chunk of the budget in the second half must have gone to the 3D visual effect of salt-flake snow falling in both the sea and surface settings. All that aside, the point that’s most worth remembering is that the series may lose some of it’s flair, but it never gets so bad that it looks cheap, which is one thing you can always say for PA Works.
The soundtrack, for the most part, sticks to piano and string instruments, played in such a way that they almost sound like they’re echoing underwater. It’s music that, for the most part, that reminds you of the sea, even if it wasn’t attached to this series. There are some exceptions, like Ofunehiki no Uta, which draws upon a fictionalized Japanese tradition, and thus falls back on a much more traditionally eastern sounding orchestration, complete with backup singers and what might be the only wind instruments in the show. Another odd standout is Uroko Sama no Monogatari, a tune that plays around the character of Uroko-sama, and oddly enough, it almost sounds like the extended beginning to a country song. I can’t really say that it’s a memorable soundtrack, and there really aren’t any standouts that you’d get any enjoyment out of without having the show to put them in context, but there are quite a few of them that can move you to tears if you listen to them while remembering the scenes that they were used in, especially in the case of Ofunehiki no Uta.
The first opening, named after the anime itself, is a bit on the generic side, an upbeat pop song that you could find attached to pretty much any slice of life anime. The visuals, on the other hand, are nothing if not stunning. While the song fits the mold of slice of life, the video that accompanies it breaks that mold, offering a beautiful look at the two towns and their inhabitants, all while remaining consistent with the animation quality from that half of the series. On a related note, there’s water animation in this opening that could hold it’s own against Free!. The first ending theme, Aqua Terrarium, is also somewhat generic, albeit with it’s visual accompaniment being lingering shots of one of Manaka motionless in the sea. So, yeah, standard ending animation. The second opening, Ebb and Flow, carries a much more somber tone than the first one, and it’s imagery of time having passed can possibly tug at your heart strings for an episode or two, at least until you realize what direction the rest of the series is taking. The second ending theme, Mitsuba no Musubi, is just as unremarkable as the first, albeit with an unexpected shift in art style.
The english dub was produced by Bang Zoom, and I just want to say off the bat that I’ve been turning into a HUGE Max Mittelman fan lately. He’s still relatively new in the industry, but as I mentioned in my One Punch Man review, he deserves all of the lead roles he’s already been getting. He’s playing a character who starts off angsty and confrontational, and if we’re being completely honest, he’s also kind of an asshole. He develops over time to become much more reasonable and understanding, and throughout the whole process, he plays off of Michelle Ruff’s Manaka(Can I call her Monica from here on? Screw it, I’m gonna anyway) beautifully. While Monica is the target of both Hikari’s aggression and later affection, she’s no hapless Yamato Nadeshiko type character. She responds to his behavior the way any actual girl her age would respond to a close friend acting like a bully, by chastising him for being aggressive and threatening to stop hanging out with him if he doesn’t cool it. They become much stronger characters by the halfway point, and the actors have more than enough chemistry to pull it off.
Unfortunately, I can’t speak as glowingly about the rest of the main four, as Kaname and Chisaki aren’t quite as interesting as their floundering friends. They’re not unlikeable characters… At least, not at first… But it’s hard to describe them outside of their looks and their positions inside of the show’s love polygon. Brianna Knickerbocker and Bryce Papenbrook perform admirably in these roles, but still feel quite underused. Xanthe Huynh and Erica Mendez have a much more rewarding turn as Miuna, a little girl from a damaged home, and Akari, the woman who’s found herself tied by fate to Miuna’s single father. Their efforts to overcome prejudice and unchecked emotional turmoil in order to come together as a family is one of the biggest driving forces of the first half of the series, a fact that wasn’t lost on either actress, who put out some of the most genuine, raw emotion out of the show’s entire cast. Chris Hackney also does a commendable job as Tsumugu, a land-living boy who finds himself drawn into Hikari’s group of friends. He’s not the first actor to give a stoic character personality, but he still pulls it off pretty damn well. There aren’t very many standout performances over-all, but it’s still a solid dub that’s more or less on equal footing with the original sub.
At first glance, A Lull in the Sea may appear to be another slice of life romantic comedy, with it’s only distinction being it’s neo-little-mermaid gimmick. Thankfully, the writers waste no time whatsoever establishing that there are real themes at play here, and that they’re timeless themes to boot. At the beginning of the series, the people of the land and the people of the sea are not on good terms whatsoever. I’ve seen plenty of fictional allegories for racism in my day, and while most of them amount to angry strawmen claiming “We round people shouldn’t be getting mixed up with them circle people” to the Disney version of Pocahontas sporting a song that blatantly states “They’re not like you and me, which means they must be evil,” Lull takes a much more thorough approach. The differences between the sea people and the surface people has some serious depth to it, as it exists not only in real time, but stretching back throughout their long term geographically close relationship with one another.
While it’s true that the setting does feel a bit underdeveloped, and the idea of an undersea village living as neighbors to a realistic, modern land village does bring up a lot of questions that never get answered, these flaws in world-building are easily over-shadowed by just how uncanny the plot’s resemblance to real life social issues can be. with the exception of the Sea God’s backstory, every single social injustice we see in this series can be drawn as a parallel to an issue that either occurs or used to occur in real life. The idea of middle and even high school students instantly rejecting and tormenting other students for the simple crime of being different has been happening since the dawn of time. It’s practically a rule of being adolescent, regardless of how adult international relationships may or may not be influencing it. For some minorities to want to rebel against this discrimination by being confrontational and having a bad attitude while others try to be on their best behavior in order to fight stereotypes through pacifism, and even for these two sects to clash with each other, is also disturbingly relevant to race relations in any society that’s managed to diversify itself. This is in stark contrast to Japan, a racially homogenous nation where this series oddly takes place.
Harking back to Hikari’s sister Akari(yes, those two names are put together in anime far, far too often), she originally had a job on the surface, until it was revealed that she was in love with her single father boss, and was harboring an intent to marry him. She was rejected outright from both sides, with her boss’s daughter not wanting the union to take place for certain spoiler reasons, but she was especially contested by her own people, including her father, because of a village rule stating that anyone who fell in love with a land lubber would never be allowed in the sea again. It’s later revealed that the legend of the Sea God was behind this rule, but even if he wasn’t, this attitude still rings true today, as there are tons of parents out there who would rather die than see their offspring wind up in a relationship that might compromise their heritage. Hell, one of my favorite scenes occurs long after the children have already put their differences aside, and the adults from both sides are coerced into a negotiation over a necessary ritual, which goes great until both sides start demanding apologies over perceived injustices of the past, an argument that almost becomes violent before the who kerfuffle is blamed on the kids, suggesting that racial differences are harder to get over for the older generation than the younger one.
If I hadn’t made it obvious to you by now, the two biggest recurring themes in this show(at least the interesting ones) are prejudice and desegregation, themes that are told primarily from the point of view of four sea-dwelling middle schoolers trying to fit in at a surface-dwelling school, but when you take a step back from them, you can see the issue from the perspectives of the human kids, the hopeful teacher, the adults who’ve lived through issues the kids can’t fully understand, the young star-crossed lovers and more. All of these different perspectives, almost all of which are realistic and relevant to the viewer in their own way, give the series a sense of depth and complexity that most slice of life shows can never even hope to reach. Characters grow and develop as their minds become more open and their hearts become more accepting, and yeah, even the bullies become likeable through the course of the story. There’s a sprinkling of developing crushes to add some spice to the main cast, but it takes a back seat to more important plotlines. All of this leads to a climax that’s equal parts inspiration and tragedy, and an ending that will have you crying your eyes out… Halfway through the series.
Yeah, this is pretty much where my praise of A Lull in the Sea ends, and the ravaging must begin. I’m going to try my best not to spoil the climax of episode 13, as I do believe everyone should be able to experience it blindly for themselves, but I will reveal some… stuff, from the second half, so here’s your warning. If I didn’t think it was important to talk about, I wouldn’t be spoiling it. For example, there’s the fact that episode 14 starts off with a five year time skip. One of our four main characters has aged naturally, but the other three are still 14, through some means I don’t feel like explaining. Considering how the first half ended, this isn’t the worst way to continue the series, and there is some potential for the story to develop under these circumstances, but here’s the problem… The racial tension, by this point, has been completely resolved. The people making the show must have realized they’d written themselves into a corner, and the only way to continue was to abandon all the depth of the first half and instead focus on the love-polygon, which quickly becomes a love-dodecahedron.
Going forward, a lot of dumb decisions are made to get the writers out of their corner, but the one that instantly had me doing the hardest head-desk of my life was when, in a flash-back, we hear nine year old Miuna getting jealous over Hikari, a character she’d never shown any special affection for throughout the first half. I did the math on the time skip, and guessed on the spot that this show was about to rely on one of the creepiest, unrealistic, sexist ideas that anime has ever come up with. To get a vague yet still accurate picture of what I’m talking about, picture Love Hina’s Keitaro Urashima, the boy who’s pursuing a girl he knew from his childhood. Now, instead of a male character falling back on a memory because he can’t get a girlfriend through any other means, picture a female character who COULD get a boyfriend, but refuses to because she’d rather end up an old maid than betray some dude she had a crush on as a child. It’s bad, and a lot of anime do it, but most anime don’t go the extra mile of using a time skip to make the girl and her old friend the same age so it’ll be okay. Only it’s not, because it’s still creepy.
Oh, and it gets worse… Her friend, the mischievous moppet Sayu, falls in love with another 14 year old because… Get this… He patted her on the head and called her a good girl. Ooh, scandalous, right? That has to be the most laughable catalyst for an “I WILL NEVER LOVE ANOTHER” that I have ever heard. I wish I could go into deeper spoilers, but I’ve already said too much, so let’s summarize this: The second half of the anime exists for two reasons. First of all, it exists to explore and conclude the love dodecahedron, which it doesn’t, and it also exists to ret-con the conclusion of episode 13 so that the series can end on a happier note, which… Unfortunately… is executed in a very fanficcy way that tears a massive plot hole in the lore of the story. Basically, the entire second half of the anime didn’t need or deserve to exist, especially since the first half ended on the perfect note, a beautiful tragedy that warranted no farther than one epilogue episode to wrap things up. You came close, Lull… You came close.
A Lull in the Sea is available stateside from NIS America, which of course means it’s ridonkulously expensive. Luckily, it’s also available in both dub and sub form on Crunchyroll for subscribers. The original manga by Project – 118 is not available stateside, nor is the follow-up four-panel manga from the same writer. Personally, I recommend the Crunchyroll subscription, if you can afford it. I had to cancel mine after paying 1000 dollars on a car bill, but then again, I’m an old ass adult. Subscribe with your parents’ money, kids!
A Lull in the Sea is kind of like The Big O… I fell in love with the first half, and then found my jaw dropping farther and farther to the floor as what was previously awesome and enjoyable became huge disappointments once they got over the hump. Also like Big O, I wish to God that MAL would separate the two halves into their own entries, so that I could judge them separately instead of lumping them together. Why does the second half of this show exist? What was the point of it? I’m not going to sit here and stream the manga, so I have no idea how well this show holds up against it, but if they did the second half just for accuracy, then maybe they should have broke away from the source material and found a way to end it with episode 14. None of these love interests needed to be resolved, which… Oh, by the way, they weren’t. Nor did the perfect ending, which happened at the show’s halfway point, need to be repeated under dumber circumstances to force a happy ending. This show could have been good. It should have been good. Yeah, a bad first half can be saved by a good second half, but a bad second half can destroy a good first half. This is a damn shame. I give A Lull in the Sea a 5/10.
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