Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou Ningyo no Mori (Mermaid Forest)

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Synonyms: Mermaid Forest TV, Ningyo no Mori TV, Rumic Theater: Mermaid Forest

Japanese: 高橋留美子劇場人魚の森

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Type: TV

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2003 to Dec 21, 2003

Premiered: Fall 2003

Broadcast: Sundays at 00:55 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions

Licensors: Geneon Entertainment USA

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Manga

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.02¹ (scored by 9,482 users)

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Ranked: #4246²

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Popularity: #4209

Members: 27,675

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According to an ancient legend, mermaid's flesh can grant immortality if eaten. 500 years ago, Yuta unknowingly ate a piece of mermaid's flesh. For centuries, he travels across Japan, hoping to find a mermaid, thinking she may be able to make him a normal human again. When he finally finds one, he discovers that she and her companions have been raising a girl to be their food so they can eat her and take on her youthful looks. That is how mermaids stay young. Yuta kills the mermaids and rescues her, but she has already eaten some of the mermaid's flesh. Although he had to kill the mermaids, Yuta isn't too disappointed. Yuta's once lonely existence is now over, as he has found a companion in Mana. And Mana, who had been trapped in a small hut her whole life, finds delight in even the simplest of things. Together, Yuta and Mana attempt to seek out more mermaids, trying to become normal humans again.

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Adaptation:	Ningyo Series
Alternative version:	Ningyo no Mori, Ningyo no Kizu
Spin-off:	Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou
Sequel:	Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou Ningyo no Mori Specials

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Characters & Voice Actors

Mana

Main

Takayama, Minami
Japanese

Yuta

Main

Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese

Big Eyes

Supporting

Gouri, Daisuke
Japanese

Rin

Supporting

Kuwashima, Houko
Japanese

Masato

Supporting

Ohmoto, Makiko
Japanese

Kannagi, Towa

Supporting

Shimamoto, Sumi
Japanese

Rin's Father

Supporting

Arimoto, Kinryuu
Japanese

Misa

Supporting

Sakuma, Rei
Japanese

Kogure, Nae

Supporting

Amano, Yuri
Japanese

Isago

Supporting

Orikasa, Ai
Japanese

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Okamoto, Junya

Assistant Producer

Okuwaki, Masaharu

Director

Urakami, Yasuo

Sound Director

Ooba, Hideaki

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

"Like an angel" by Chiaki Ishikawa

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Ending Theme

"Mizu tamari" by kayoko

Reviews

May 6, 2008

kufreabia

Recommended

If you are currently watching a long series that occassionally takes 2 week breaks (think Bleach and GrayMan), and you want to fill that spare time with some short, enjoyable anime, then you are obliged to see Mermaid Forest.

STORY:

Mermaid Forest to me is a story of endurance, love and ultimately a moral theme follows through it. The writer of this anime is famous for many love animes, so it is no surprise this anime would eventually end up being one too. The whole story is like reading a book, with different chapters. Usually each episode represents a chapter. The theme of the show is ...

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Jun 20, 2012

angelsreview

Mixed Feelings

For those of you who don’t know, this is a show that was created by the same manga-ka that created Ranma ½, Inuyasha, and Lum. I had actually never known of this show until I was just glimpsing at a list of dubbed anime. Having said this, the show is a bit odd in comparing it to the shows she normally does.

The story follows two characters the most part, a man and woman who have eaten mermaid flesh and so have gained immortality. Throughout the story, you can see the different changes of the world as years go by. In a way, this is ... somewhat like RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne in that sense. A lot of times though, they do look back on Yuta’s life, sometimes making it a bit hard to understand exactly what is going on when we pop back suddenly into a new time frame. Once in a while, it is hard to pick out what is looking to the past and what is actually in the ‘present’ day time frame since some places never change. It makes me wonder why they didn’t just show Yuto’s life threw up till when he meets Mana instead of flopping back and forward.

The stories not only follow these two as they travel around but also seem to be cases in where others have been affected by mermaids weather eating their flesh, having ashes dumped on them, had drunken mermaid blood, or even just had someone they knew eaten by a mermaid. We get a sort of case file of the mysterious world of the mermaid powers which reminds me of shows like Petshop of Horror and detective anime, just a little more based on one specific piece of the mermaid mythos.

The idea of mermaids being able to give birth is actually a really cool thing to see and I love how they put that into the show. It’s awesome and I have never really seen that happen in a show so it makes it rather different then other mermaid tales. Another really interesting thing is that the went off the normal folklore of the mermaids looks, having them be beautiful women sometimes and then giving them a monstrous look when they are fighting someone. Most of the time now a days, we look at a mermaid and we want to see the beautiful women with flowing hair but in reality, the story of a mermaid was placed as them being true monsters, something to be feared instead of loved.

The artwork is pretty much the same as Inuyasha and all her other shows. It’s pretty much the same in how the eyes and coloring is. There are some things that seem a bit off in their faces, when looking straight on, they look rather flat but when looking at them in profile, they show more to the face. Other things like details on the boats and water is pretty good. The scales of the mermaid seem to be different when you look between when they have them on and when they wash up on shore. Though it feels like a show that had cut corners on many pieces of the animation, it was a normal thing for them to do stuff like that when this first came out so I still give them props for making it pretty enjoyable.

The voices are really bad in the English dub. Non of them actually match the lip flaps. As I kept watching it, the Japanese voices did grow on me but that didn’t help the lip flap problem which did get a bit better as the story kept going but never seemed all that good. For it being a 2003 show (No, I don’t know when the actual dubbing took place) I would of thought it would have been just a little bit better. Music is so so, not great, and again, not that bad.

A small note to anyone looking for the manga, it is under the name Mermaid Saga by Rumiko Takahashi.

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Feb 27, 2021

kirazerorequiem

Not Recommended

what a mess this show was. Everything was pretty subpar from the lacking story, the animation, (not the worst) to even the characters.

Following Yuta's adventure for finding a unknown cure for his immortality and his idiotic choices. Soon after starting he met with his immortal counterpart to adventure with.

whilst in the end, two immortals living together and to maybe grow more friends like them with time, that would not be a bad outcome. Instead Lets continue going town to town finding the most evil women or mermaid (that is right under their thumb) plotting the most evil plan by ...

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