Kaijuu no Kodomo (Children of the Sea)

Ruka Azumi's ordinary summer vacation revolves around spending all her time on the handball court to avoid her only housemate, her alcoholic mother. When an incident at practice leads to Ruka's exclusion from the handball team, she is forced to find other outlets to enjoy herself, eventually winding up at the aquarium where her father works. There, she meets Umi, a mysterious boy raised by dugongs who is being kept at the aquarium in order to research his strange water-dependent body.

Ruka and Umi become fast friends, and the pair is soon joined by Sora, Umi's brother who also has an unusual relationship with the ocean. Together, the trio explore a dazzling undersea world while learning about a peculiar "festival" that all sea creatures around the world are preparing for.

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Winner of the Grand Prize Award on the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival.

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Morisaki, Win
Japanese

Sora

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Uragami, Seishuu
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Azumi, Ruka

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Ashida, Mana
Japanese

Umi

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Ishibashi, Hiiro
Japanese

Cusack, Jim

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Tanaka, Min
Japanese

Dede

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Fuji, Sumiko
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Azumi, Masaaki

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Inagaki, Gorou
Japanese

Azumi, Kanako

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Aoi, Yuu
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Tanaka, Eiko

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Watanabe, Ayumu

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Kasamatsu, Kouji

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Kino, Hanasaki

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"Umi no Yuurei (海の幽霊)" by Kenshi Yonezu

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Nov 25, 2023

Siaksx

Recommended

I dove into "Kaijuu no Kodomo" with an open mind and came out truly mesmerized. I've read several reviews where people expressed disappointment with the storyline, but for me, it was captivating. The themes explored in the movie, like the parallels with birth and the poetic notion of us being part of the vast universe, were both romantic and inspiring.

Regarding the characters, I did feel a tinge of longing for more depth in the side characters. However, this might be an intentional reflection of the transient nature of childhood and adolescence – friends coming and going, parents grappling with their children's emotional landscapes. It's a ...

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Jan 26, 2024

literallysolame

Mixed Feelings

The Children of the Sea is a film I would recommend a friend to watch by themselves at 2-3am with little to no explanation.

The film is very alluring and captivating even with visuals alone. Some of the best animated sea life there is. From ribbon eels to false killer sharks the scenery is illuminating and stunning.

Very good at keeping your attention by going from a melancholy sunny scene to something darker and more fast paced.

Some of scenes were genuinely so intense (not content wise but by use of sounds and visuals) that I was taken aback or caught off guard.

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Mar 28, 2023

nozomiEX

Not Recommended

Funny

Kaijuu no Kodomo is the personification of a teenager smoking weed for the first time and spilling into incoherent babble about life and the universe. "Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude the seas and the stars are one... We're all, like, totally connected." Without any hint of self-awareness, prattling on about romantic-sounding yet entirely vacuous germs of ideas about "listening to the song on the winds," "we're all made of the same matter... whoaaaaaa..." and other such flowery, inconsequential drivel. The characters and plot are superficially there to laboriously drone on about shallow musings on life and the universe. What little there is in terms of ...

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