Ooyukiumi no Kaina (Kaina of the Great Snow Sea)

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Japanese: 大雪海のカイナ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 12, 2023 to Mar 23, 2023

Premiered: Winter 2023

Broadcast: Thursdays at 00:55 (JST)

Producers: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Dentsu, Fuji TV, BS Fuji, bilibili, Crunchyroll, NetEase

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Studios: Polygon Pictures

Source: Original

Genre: Fantasy

Duration: 22 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Ranked: #6007²

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Popularity: #3197

Members: 47,741

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Humanity is facing extinction. In a snow-covered world where water has become scarce, the last habitable lands are located at the feet of gigantic Orbital Trees scattered about the desolated Earth. According to a legend, there exists a sage who knows the secret to producing abundant quantities of water to save mankind.

Ririha, the princess of Atland, uses an organic hot-air balloon to climb to the top of an Orbital Tree in hopes of meeting her country's savior. Once she reaches the Canopy—an area that appears to be an infinite window of transparent ice—she meets Kaina, one of the last men alive on the Canopy. However, she can not find the man she was looking for.

Unable to return by herself to her country, the princess finds a helping hand in Kaina, who is eager to explore the surface world that he thought was empty. As Kaina learns about the war against Ririha's country, the antagonistic technologically advanced nation Valghia, and other perils of the surface, he realizes that his escorting mission will prove more difficult than he imagined.

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Adaptation:	Ooyukiumi no Kaina
Sequel:	Ooyukiumi no Kaina: Hoshi no Kenja
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Ririha

Main

Takahashi, Rie
Japanese

Kaina

Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Amerote

Supporting

Sakamoto, Maaya
Japanese

Yaona

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Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Ngapoge

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Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

Denigo

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Tsuchida, Reiou
Japanese

Murunota

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Ohara, Sayaka
Japanese

Swuro

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Wakui, Yuu
Japanese

Yuimu

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Gotou, Ayasa
Japanese

Jarge

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Miyake, Kenta
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Mori, Akitoshi

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Takahashi, Ryouhei

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Hamamoto, Yumi

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Kuratani, Hikari

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Opening Theme

"Telepath (テレパス)" by Yorushika

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"Juvenile (ジュブナイル)" by GReeeeN

Reviews

Jan 3, 2024

fast2611

Recommended

This forms a split cour with its followup movie, so I'll 'forgive' it the aprupt end one got watching this at release.
First off, yes, its 3d, no, you should watch it anyway, you'll get used to it before they finished their first exposition dump
This series greatest strength is its world building, instead of its characters, in fact, I'd like to call the world itself the main character. A higher suspension of disbelief will be required of you than of a hardcover book, but it does not rise to to the all too comnon level of continuing to fight with a stomach stab wound through the ...

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Jan 10, 2024

Godslayer27

Mixed Feelings

Set in a apocaliptic world where humanity is on border of extintion and drinking water is almost non-existent are the main bases for what is all about this series and the general conflics that surround all the plot.

The settings are interesting and the world building is something that from the first episode hook you though as you move forward on the series you go discovering that the structure that follows is rather pretty predictible and in general terms i should say kinda lazy not only in story but also character wise which provoques losing their most stronger points instead of getting something with ... more exploration on the surroundings and slowsly learning more about the lore as also developing the character in a manner much more mature it just follows an route that feel like you have watched before even started.

The first 2 or even 3 episodes started pretty well introduce us the main characters (kaina and ririha) and still i would mention that there was a farwell scene (early on the series) that felt very cold on the context that happened, we learn a little more of the story and just little after that went straight to the main matter with all the war thing, the truth here is that i just got bore (due to two things "direction" and "characters") even more on the last stretch which felt like the producer go out of ideas and just copy-pasted all the cliches possibles for the final (and last couple of episodes) which i couldnt even name it like that because this seems to not end here but on a movie that serve as secuel.

Also the fanservice on the series made his apparition with the piss scene that cannot miss ohh boy really didnt served to anything for the series but still its there not for less XD.

With kaina i feel the series maked him too naive and clueless (which i dont know if is the right word to describe it) but not even according to his age and the environment in which he grown up which maked for situations pretty frustratings along the series with ririha really dont have much to say you watched one character on the rol that she occupies (the cclasic princess) on this kind of genere and for 90% of the cases you have seen all of them (sadly).

Secondary characters i dont bother too much on talk about it with some that are presented kinda wise and everything to go taking stupids actions and actually being surpirsed on the last moments on how turned out (Hallesora), others that look cool have an misteryous aura and have an promising background to develop that is not even touch (Amerote) or the actual tyrant that i dont get how turned ruling an entire country without anyone realizing that the man was entirely fuckup and out of mind until actually the last couple of episodes which was in a way hilarious (Handagil).

Animation was good is an 3D CG anime with polygon pictures behind which i consider being one of the only studios that produce good series that are not 2d and still remain that vibe of traditional drawing for the characters and backgrounds, it might not be their best work or at pair with others like ajin or knight of sidonia but still at least on visuals looked pretty good.

Sound wise i didnt like the opening neither the ending the melodies were very dull and the soundtrack had some tracks that sounded like some compositions of Hiroyuki Sawano but even then just felt like an mere reproduction of it and didnt gave me the same excitement or evoque the same emtions on the moments that was used.

The experience overall of all the "package" you could say was meh at least on my case maybe because i have watched a lot of anime thats why the reason i just got feed up on seeing the same formaula again with little to no difference from many other ones sure maybe to newcomers give it a try you might like but still then dont expect anything outstanding.

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Jun 13, 2023

Brightly_Lit

Not Recommended

It is not good. All it has going for it is beautiful visuals and initially intriguing, if nonsensical, world building. The main problem facing humanity is lack of water, though the world is almost entirely covered with ... water -- the titular "snow sea," which is fluffy on the top and simply water underneath .... The longer you watch, the less sense it makes, though it initially seems very interesting. The plot, such as it is, is one you've seen a million times, and there are basically 2 characters: bad guys are simply misguided except for the ridiculously over - the - top main villain. ...

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