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Umi Monogatari Ep 1-2

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illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
July 03 2009 02:21 GMT
#1
Characters:
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Marin (on the right); a girl that lives under water


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Urin (on the right); a girl that lives under water, younger-sister of Marin


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Kanon; a seemingly normal girl that often omits an evil aura




Episode 1 Summary:

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Welcome to a new show of this season. This is Sea Story (Umi Monogatari), which according to animenetworks.com, is:

The "transforming magical girl action" story centers on Marin and Urin, two "pure" sisters who live alongside the fish in the sea, but yearn to be in the world beyond the water and above ground. One day, a beautiful ring falls in the middle of the sea, and Marin and Urin retrieve it. The two decide to leave their waterbound world for the first time to deliver the ring. After an arduous journey, they come across an isolated island where a high school girl named Kanon lives. The encounter between Marin and Kanon — the maiden of the sea and the maiden of the skies — awakens a hidden power as the world is threatened by an enveloping darkness.


The story started with a ring that was dropped into the sea that was found by Marin and Urin, whom lived in the water (think about them like mermaids but they don't have a fish-tail). Marin, mesmerized by the ring's beauty, decided to go out of the water for the first time in her life to return this ring to its rightful owner on the surface. Urin was worried about her sister and decided to come along as well.

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One Ring rules it all.


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The first sight of the surface world was breath-taking.... literally


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How can you not be catching people's attention when you are cosplaying?


On the surface world, the sexy and dynamic duo's yelling caught the attention of the ring's owner, Kanon. As it turned out, this ring was given to Kanon by her ex-boyfriend, whom dumped Kanon a few hours ago. In Kanon's rage she threw the ring into the sea - only to be returned by Marin and Urin. Frustrated at the sight of her ring, Kanon threw it away a second time, but this time into the forest.

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The One Ring returns


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You know, if I changed Kanon's aura from purple to yellow, many people would think that this was Dragonball


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It's over 9000!


Captivated by the ring, Marin decided to look for it among the bushes, with Urin joining a short moment after. At the same time Kanon was feeling ashamed of her immature actions. She should be ashamed, though, as she threw it so hard that Marin and Urin would continue to search for the ring until night, when the fireworks began. Having never seen fireworks before, Urin was extremely scared and fled by chance to a large stony coffin near a temple. Luckily for her, the ring she was looking for was right by the coffin; Urin made quick work in extracting the ring, but in this process also opened the magical seal that kept whatever sinister inside.

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*rolls eyes*


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It's actually a hidden patch of minerals.


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Mission accomplished.


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Uh-oh


All of a sudden the lid is blown out and black gases erupted from the stony case, spiring up into the sky. Kanon's ring seemed to also be scorched by the evil omen briefly. Feeling helpless Urin could only hid under a tree and cried while waiting for Marin and Kanon to rescue her.

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This situation can be compared to suddenly having 5 control groups of hydras dropped onto your defenseless factories.


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(is this possibly a setup for a plot-twist to come?)


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Bad things always happen when there is a ring of black cloud above the sky.


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Hiding under a tree while there is a thunderstorm is only safe in an anime.





Episode 2:

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With the combined effort of Marin and Kanon, Urin was found near the stony coffin. Feeling relieved Marin gave Kanon a big hug (I believe at this point Kanon stated that she has no interests for girls... ha! Her heterosexuality will fade in time, I am sure). During the searching process Kanon also accidentally released Master Roshi from Dragonball a turtle-elder who would briefly explain that an evil spirit called Sedona was released and her ultimate goal was to corrupt the hearts of everyone on the surface and in the seas once she was complete, and that Marin, who was the Sea Witch (Umi no Miko), was needed to stop Sedona before her completion.

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Most of my attention are at the top-right corner


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"Marin, I am sorry that I can't kiss you right now; not that I don't want to, but if I do the entire show will get cancelled."


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Don't ask me about the bandaid I have no freaking idea.


Kanon seemed to have misunderstood the conservation and left angrily (while emitting her evil aura). On her way home she met her mom who briefly mentioned Kanon's special heritage as someone with strong spritual power. Not buying any of that, Kanon ventured to the sea shore trying to relax, only to meet a weird woman (hentai onna) who attempted to steal Kanon's evil soul.

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Enter the swim-suit woman (mizuki onna), later known as the weird woman (hentai onna)


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Seriously, hurry up and put that tenticle on her mouth already.


Luckily Marin and others sensed the evil presence of this weird woman and came for the rescue. At this point Marin performed the most cliched thing in Japanese anime - a transformation (also known as henshin; by the way my eyes were bleeding when I saw it; luckily it was only about 20 seconds long and I survived it). While Marin's clothes changed little (it was just as revealing as before), she did seem to gain some agility and the power to control water (reasonable for a Sea Witch) and form it into a projectile.

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O no here we go again -_-'


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This part looks like Dragonball too!


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"I am sorry I have to separate you two right now; if not, the show will get cancelled."


Unfortunately Marin's new-found power was not enough to stop the weird woman completely. While she was buying time for Kanon and others to escape, the weird woman gained the upper hand on Marin and the situation seemed dire. Suddenly a beacon of power was drawn from the turtle-elder to Kanon, which transformed Kanon into the Sky Witch (sora no miko). After whining briefly about her embarassing transformation Kanon casted a fireball and stroke down the weird woman.

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Ensnared


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Kanon's spiritual power kicking in


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Remember anime law of physics #102: a transformation allows a character to instantly change her hair colour as well as her hair length (compare with the picture above).


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Does this mean that Kanon is actually a Human Mage from WoW?


The weird woman suffered as she was engulfed by flames, but Marin decided to neutralize Kanon's power with her own, saving the weird woman from certain fate. Marin claimed to have seen this woman's eyes before and decided to hug her - which somehow purified this woman into an octopus - an innocent animal corrupted by the the black cloud Urin released from the previous episode. After this whole ordeal Kanon felt that she was scammed into doing something weird and wished to never see Marin and her sea-folks again.

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Marin uses ice beam! It's super effective!


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O dear lord, why would anyone want to hug an octopus?




Thoughts:

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Despite numerous cliched elements and shameless fan-services, I think this show has some potential (hopefully you'd watch it, too). While you cannot expect this to be as epic as (insert your epic anime here), I think the story goes rather smoothly and there will be many possible drama to unfold in the future (Kanon's ring that was scorched briefly, Kanon's possibly romantic relationship with Marin and with her ex-boyfriend, as well as this evil figure Sedona in general). Furthermore, I do not think the director would be stupid enough to make a magic girl (mahou shoujo) show without some sort of twists; so I believe this show can go relatively well.

On another hand, there are really very few other anime to watch from: Taishou Yakyuu Musume (about all-girl baseball, which sounds boring to begin with), Bakemonogatari (seems like a harem show with each girl getting one arc in the story, which is boring; also it's produced by SHAFT and I frankly hated ef - a tale of melodies), Umineko no Naku Koro ni (never liked that series or its prequels), Spice and Wolf II (Zzz.... Zzz....), Princess Lover (EW!), Kanamemo (EW!!!), and GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class (EW!!!!!). While I won't deny that CANAAN, Sora no Manimani, Gendaimahou, and Aoi Hana could be good, but hey it's summer time it's OK to relax and follow 5 series at the same time.


:]
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
July 03 2009 02:32 GMT
#2
Wait someone hating on ef, Umineko, Spice and Wolf, and only thinks that CANAAN "could be good"? Fail. Ban. Wait, not my blog.

Princess Lover getting an ew is expected, though I am probably going to at least watch one episode to see the art direction. As shitty the eroge was, the art direction was good. Gendai mahou I have yet to start reading, can't say anything for now, but the premise looks good at least.
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66158 Posts
July 03 2009 02:34 GMT
#3
Hate on Spice and Wolf?

SRSLY?

Oh, only saw the 'characters' spoiler because I don't want to be spoiled lol

LOLIS FTW :DDDD
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Ancestral
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3230 Posts
July 03 2009 02:38 GMT
#4
Anime is so fucking weird. I want to start watching it.
The Nature and purpose of the martial way are universal; all selfish desires must be roasted in the tempering fires of hard training. - Masutatsu Oyama
Bond(i2)
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada926 Posts
July 03 2009 03:29 GMT
#5
dont start with gay shit like this if u ever wanna truely enjoy it
roses are red violets are blue, Im schitzophrenic and so am i
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-03 03:51:10
July 03 2009 03:42 GMT
#6
On July 03 2009 11:34 konadora wrote:
Hate on Spice and Wolf?

SRSLY?

Oh, only saw the 'characters' spoiler because I don't want to be spoiled lol

LOLIS FTW :DDDD


Spice and Wolf is seriously boring. I don't know why people enjoy it. As Omni from RC said Spice and Wolf is a show about medival economics.

On July 03 2009 11:32 Ecael wrote:
Wait someone hating on ef, Umineko, Spice and Wolf, and only thinks that CANAAN "could be good"? Fail. Ban. Wait, not my blog.

Princess Lover getting an ew is expected, though I am probably going to at least watch one episode to see the art direction. As shitty the eroge was, the art direction was good. Gendai mahou I have yet to start reading, can't say anything for now, but the premise looks good at least.


I didn't say *only* CANAAN, I listed at least 5 different ones as I could recall.

Spice and Wolf is explained as above.

Umineko is something similar to Higurashi no Naku Koroni, I think. I have never watched Higurashi before but I know it is about loli with butcher knives, and the whole concept of that (plus psychological thrillers) did not appeal to me -_-

While I know the shows listed above have considerable fan bases, Princess Lover is seriously meh, and I don't think it will even deserve watching the first episode. It's not that I have never given such genre a try, I did: I watched Shuttle (which was not bad), but then some shitty ones hit me, such as To-Love-Ru, Sekerei, and some other ones I can't even recall the names anymore.

I like gendaimahou too.
:]
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
July 03 2009 03:46 GMT
#7
Doesn't that make the show automatically awesome?

Spice and Wolf, like Crest of the Stars among other animes, are really based upon character interaction more so than plot. That people find the characters attractive is enough of a reason to like the show considering how much of it is based around that.
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
July 03 2009 03:53 GMT
#8
On July 03 2009 12:46 Ecael wrote:
Doesn't that make the show automatically awesome?

Spice and Wolf, like Crest of the Stars among other animes, are really based upon character interaction more so than plot. That people find the characters attractive is enough of a reason to like the show considering how much of it is based around that.


Spice and Wolf, being based off a light novel, is already a big plus. When it came out I did watch it, and... well, the economics part of things really turned me off.
:]
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
July 03 2009 03:59 GMT
#9
That's a shame, it is so nice to see economics in anime.
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
July 03 2009 04:11 GMT
#10
On July 03 2009 12:59 Ecael wrote:
That's a shame, it is so nice to see economics in anime.


Yea, well... I think pretty much all of the anime (except kiddy shows like, pokemon) will have, to some degree, of character interaction, and I don't particularly hate it. I will dislike it, however, if the interaction is through some sort of medium that I do not understand (like medival economics, baseball, etc.).

Or maybe I am just too dumb to understand it. Who knows?

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Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
July 03 2009 04:30 GMT
#11
Except that Lawrence and Horo don't have all that much actual interaction with economics, it is really just onesided lectures quickly setting up for the situation the two are entangled in. I can see your point if the two starts busting out business talk on everything, except what we see of their bantering involves business at most 20% of the time. More often than not we just see them verbally abusing each other.
lokiM
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3407 Posts
July 03 2009 04:56 GMT
#12
On July 03 2009 11:38 Ancestral wrote:
Anime is so fucking weird. I want to start watching it.

lol

Anyways is this worth watching? and how long is this suppose to be? are only 2 episodes out?
You can't fight the feeling.
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-03 05:07:31
July 03 2009 05:06 GMT
#13
On July 03 2009 13:56 lokiM wrote:
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On July 03 2009 11:38 Ancestral wrote:
Anime is so fucking weird. I want to start watching it.

lol

Anyways is this worth watching? and how long is this suppose to be? are only 2 episodes out?


It has only 2 episodes so far. It airs every Tuesday I think and I have no idea how long it is going to be =(

Rather or not it is worth watching it really depends on you. As you can see from above Ecael really likes Wolf and Spices but I really hate it, for (I think) personal perferences.
:]
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-03 05:18:53
July 03 2009 05:14 GMT
#14
I'd prefer you just say that you have bad taste sir!

I jest.

Umimonogatari is 13 episodes I think? Off the top of my head. July doesn't tend to see 24 episode animes.

Oh yeah, did you note anyone in specific with the voice cast? I have been getting a bit into the audio dramas for the last year or so, good seiyuus are to be sought from all sources.
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
July 03 2009 06:30 GMT
#15
On July 03 2009 14:14 Ecael wrote:
I'd prefer you just say that you have bad taste sir!

I jest.

Umimonogatari is 13 episodes I think? Off the top of my head. July doesn't tend to see 24 episode animes.

Oh yeah, did you note anyone in specific with the voice cast? I have been getting a bit into the audio dramas for the last year or so, good seiyuus are to be sought from all sources.


I do think I have bad taste. I mean my favourite genre is shoujo-ai. Muahahahahhaa

For the VAs, I remember reading somewhere that one of the VA is new (her first time voicing for an anime) and they sticked her for one of the major roles. It might be the one for Kanon, but I am not 100% sure.
:]
genwar
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada537 Posts
July 09 2009 23:27 GMT
#16
So I just watched the second episodes:

Kanon actually said "I can't believe my first kiss was almost stolen by an octopus!" Yet her character is suppose to be just out of a relationship, yet she never kissed him.

I know japanese like the pure woman thought but come on.
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