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Kaijuu no Kodomo
One summer vacation, Ruka meets two boys, "Umi" and "Sora," whose upbringing contains strange and wonderful secrets. Drawn to their beautiful swimming, almost more like flying, Ruka and the adults who know them are intertwined in a complex mesh... Meanwhile, an unexplained anomaly is occurring all over the world: fish are disappearing. Thus begins a marine adventure of boys and girls to captivate all the senses!
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Daisuke IgarashiOriginal Creator
Ayumu WatanabeDirector
Kenichi KonishiCharacter Design
Shinji KimuraArt Director
Miyuki ItouColor Design
Kiyoshi HiroseEditing 
Kenichirou AkimotoCG Director
Kouji Kasamatsu Sound Director
Joe HisaishiMusic
Masaki AokiAnimation ProducerShouta HigashitsutsumiProduction DeskNaoya AmadaProduction Desk
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The best word I can think of to describe Children of the Sea is “overwhelming.” It’s not so much a movie as it is a whirlwind of sensory experiences, music and sound and color and light clashing and colliding like the tumultuous waves of a stormy sea. It’s a cascading tsumani of pure artistry painte…
Read full review on AniList →####This review contains spoilers. --- Have you ever swam at night? Weightlessly floating on your back, looking up into the sky. It seems to stretch on forever. In that moment there is nothing between you and the stars. And so they begin to pull on you. On the water, you sway. Up and down with…
Read full review on AniList →A love poem and beautiful ode to the depth and perseverance of life and all things being. There are as many ways to life as there are living beings. This is an anime so well animated, it made me feel the cool breeze when standing under a roof, on a hot summer day, made me feel the warmth of the s…
Read full review on AniList →I went to a screening of the film at the Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles that featured a Q&A with the director of the film, Ayumu Watanabe, and Kenichiro Akimoto, the CGI lead of the production. You can tell the amount of technical effort that went into the production of this film. Daisuk…
Read full review on AniList →_This review might contain spoilers. You may proceed if you can handle the truth..._ Children of the Sea, produced by the well-regarded Studio 4°C known for movies like Tekkon Kinkreet, is an adaptation of the acclaimed manga of the same title. (This review will not focus on the source material.) I…
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