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In the gap between the two different worlds of the land and sea that were separated, bittersweet human relationships unfold into a fantastical love story. Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea––an original TV anime that began broadcasting in October 2013 and the brainchild of a collaboration between Toshiya Shinohara, Mari Okada, Buriki, and P.A. Works––is a story supported by both its fantasy and romance elements and the first season of the anime, which serves as the first half of the story, came blazing by with overwhelming density and speed.
Representing the fantasy side is the beautiful sea world colored with schools of fish where Hikari, Manaka, Chisaki, and Isaki live. Thanks to a special barrier known as an Ena bestowed upon those who live in cities at the bottom of the sea by the sea god, people are able to carry out their daily lives (and even use fire to make food) under the sea. To the sea people, the Ena concurrently serves as their identity and the cornerstone of their existence; if the Ena dries up, they can no longer go on living under the sea.
The people living on land in the region of Abesan are those who abandoned their Ena. According to legend passed down in the sea village of Shioshishio, from ancient times, every human started out as a sea person. However, those who longed for land threw off their Ena and began living on land. Life on land was hard, though, and those affected by the sea god’s wrath in the form of long, continuous droughts and other hardships built the Ofunehiki, a boat on which offerings to appease the god were ceremoniously sent out to sea.
The first season of Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea develops into a story of the rising tensions between the land and sea people and a group of teenagers caught in the middle. Along the way, a calamity due to the “Saltflake Snow” (salt that looks like snow being sprinkled over the land) is foreshadowed, premonitions seen by Uroko-sama (the messenger of the sea god) pile up, and the story gets even closer to its fantastical climax.
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Source: animeanime
Source article written by Tsukasa Takase.
