Children of the Sea
海獣の子供
Studio: Studio 4°C
Synopsis
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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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Characters & Voice Actors
Azumi, Ruka
Main
VA: Ashida, Mana
Sora
Main
VA: Puccio, Alessio
Umi
Main
VA: Ishibashi, Hiiro
Anglade
Supporting
VA: Felis, Rubén
Azumi, Kanako
Supporting
VA: Aoi, Yuu
Azumi, Masaaki
Supporting
VA: Teruel, Carles
Cusack, Jim
Supporting
VA: Tanaka, Min
Dede
Supporting
VA: Fuji, Sumiko
Azumi, Ruka
Main
VA: Ashida, Mana
Sora
Main
VA: Puccio, Alessio
Umi
Main
VA: Ishibashi, Hiiro
Anglade
Supporting
VA: Felis, Rubén
Azumi, Kanako
Supporting
VA: Aoi, Yuu
Azumi, Masaaki
Supporting
VA: Teruel, Carles
Cusack, Jim
Supporting
VA: Tanaka, Min
Dede
Supporting
VA: Fuji, Sumiko
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Reviews
yenbus★ 9Breathtaking and seamless animation. I'm glad they translated Igarashi Daisuke's art to the big screen pretty well. The art and the soundtrack is absolutely beautiful and I'm also a sucker for animes with the ocean/summer days/ fantasy aesthetic themes (reminded me of the anime Nagi no Asukara). Seeing it on the big screen gave me that same chest expanding feeling whenever I see amazing animation alongside moving soundtracks. Honestly, the storyline lost me a little bit but I'm not gonna say I wasn't entertained and absorbed. I would still highly recommend for the imagery. Can't wait until it is released in English to rewatch it!
nozomiEX★ 4Kaijuu 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 ofnarrative in the first half entirely falls away for a second half of self-indulgent spectacle, pretty to look at but utterly devoid of any substance, yet completely oblivious to how pompous it is. I really can't stress how cartoonishly self-aggrandizing this is. Don't bother watching it if you at all intend to pay attention. There are nice visual sequences in here but it's only surface-deep. This would be completely boring and unremarkable if it weren't for how outrageously pretentious it is.