Nagi no Asu kara

Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed.

Nagi no Asu kara follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea.

Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface.

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Shiodome, Miuna Main

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Hiradaira, Chisaki Main

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Mukaido, Manaka Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Kihara, Tsumugu Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Sakishima, Hikari Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Isaki, Kaname Main

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Hisanuma, Sayu Main

Ishihara, Kaori Japanese

Uroko Supporting

Toriumi, Kousuke Japanese

Sakishima, Akari Supporting

Nazuka, Kaori Japanese

Shiodome, Akira Supporting

Ishigami, Shizuka Japanese

Horikawa, Kenji Producer

Nagatani, Takayuki Producer

Shinohara, Toshiya Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

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Dec 5, 2023

MaxTheYukoner

Recommended

#3

A Lull In The Sea stayed consistent throughout all it's episodes. The characters were all interesting, or at least had value, and the story had strong themes that made it into a great anime. This anime is about change, and how it effects others at certain times. Some people don't like change, but no matter what they do, they have to accept it. That's kind of the memo of this anime, where all the characters have some sort of change happen to them in the series. The love "triangle", even though its more than that, was decent. But, one thing I found a little sus ... was the themes around the relationships towards the end of the show. I wont spoil it, but it did get kind of weird. So, if you're easily uncomfortable with certain tropes, then this show may not be for you. However, it was a solid romance anime that held its ground, made me laugh, and was an enjoyable experience.

Art, Story, and Characters were a highlight.
8/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 13, 2024

Curlybrace101

Mixed Feelings

A Lull In The Sea is an anime that does not make any sense.

The premise of the series is that all humans once lived in the sea until some left the sea to live on land, and the series’s central conflict is about the hostile dynamic between the sea dwellers and the land dwellers. So, pretty rich worldbuilding right?

Wrong!

The society under the sea looks exactly like society on land, which is…odd, considering the sea came first. Shouldn’t land-life be modeled after sea-life and not the other way around? Well, considering there are more opportunities on land, I might be able to buy that the sea ... society took recursive inspiration from land society, and all of the cool things *inherent* to land that sea-dwellers could never have created on their own, however this still doesn’t make sense for this story, because:

1) sea-dwellers seem to hate land-dwellers at large, and they forbid sea-land marriage because their children can’t breathe underwater and it shrinks the population. So why would they be copying land society and not be very defensive of their pre-existing culture? Shouldn’t they be scared land culture will eclipse sea culture?

2) They have things like stairs, cups, and electricity. What? Forget culture, this shouldn’t even be possible. How the hell are they drinking out of cups? Why am I watching someone underwater iron their clothes with an electric iron that’s plugged into the wall?

It’s lazy. The writers created an interesting concept for worldbuilding and didn’t want to follow through with it. They wanted the reward without putting in any of the work.

But hey, I can ignore lazy worldbuilding if it just exists to fuel the character drama and relationships, which is the heart of most stories—especially this one. Unfortunately, the characters don’t serve it much better.

All of the characters are two-dimensional cardboard cutouts that makes me feel like TV Tropes needs to be credited for their creation. There’s Hikari, a standard male tsundere who is just kind of an ass for no reason, especially to the girl he likes, Monaka, the standard cutesy, shy nice girl who spends a lot of her screentime squealing, Chisaki, the…other girl, and Kaname, who is supposed to be the chill, nice guy meant to contrast Hikari’s tsundere behavior, but he’s so boring I forget he exists when he isn’t on screen. Kaname is the worst offender, because we almost immediately get introduced to a land boy named Tsumugu who is also chill and nice while also being way more plot relevant.

The only reason there are this many characters anyways is so we can have a convoluted love conga line that goes like Kaname > Chisaki > Hikari > Monaka > Tsumugu. If it weren’t for the love conga line half of the characters would be irrelevant.

And oh boy is the love conga line something. It’s needlessly melodramatic, and it causes these characters to freak out and cry and run away, which I find to be very silly considering they’re all friends who love each other and this could easily be solved by just talking to each other. But then again they’re 14, so what do I know? Maybe their wild incompetence is just middle school behavior. It’s hard to tell sometimes.

This love conga line then proceeds to get weird in the second half of the story after a dramatic shift, but I’m not going to spoil it. Let’s just say it doesn’t go how you would expect it to at all, and that’s not a compliment.

I’m particularly disappointed in A Lull in the Sea because I *wanted* to like it, as there were a lot of things I was genuinely interested in. No matter what, I still wanted to learn more about the mysteries of the sea (especially considering the major shift the story takes halfway through) and the setting was super interesting. I also really liked the plotline about blended families and accepting a new step-parent—it was really heartwarming! I even found myself liking Hikari in his role in the blended family plot (although this was, once again, before the dramatic shift halfway through where things got very weird). I also liked the themes of accepting change and having to let go of old things and accept new things.

Unfortunately the worldbuilding just…makes no sense, and the characters aren’t doing it any favors either.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 4, 2023

Sleeperrr

Not Recommended

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Nagi no Asu kara for the first 12 or something episodes is like oppenheimer watching the A bomb at the trinity site. Its Fun, Cool, Intresting. But than comes Little boy and Fat man. Holy shit does this anime fucking jump 10 sharks. Im not going to get into spoilers but I felt tramatized after watching it. It was so horrendousily bad at the end. Its just devolves into degeneracy it pulls a SAO where part 1 was really good and than the other half of the anime was so gross and weird. Except Nagi no Asu kara brings in fucking time skips, Kids and ... incest. The worst part is its not even fun like watching a dumpster fire its like watching someone bleed out slowly.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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