You see, unlike 99% of all romance anime out there, Nagi-Asu is actually unpredictable. However fear not, because Nagi no Asukara is an exceedingly rare case of romance done right. There is the diplomatic relationship between the two groups of people, the mysterious supernatural aspects concerning the Sea God and Ena, and last but not least Nagi-Asu has some of the most complicated love drama I've ever come across in anime. There are numerous areas that the plot revolves around over the course of time. Furthermore, there is substantial discrimination and tension between the land people and the sea people which keeps raising new hurdles for the group of friends. Trying to adapt to a life on land is not an easy thing, as they constantly have to keep themselves wet in order to not dry out their Ena the protective shell given to the sea people by the Sea God, which is what enables them to live and breathe underwater in the first place. For various reasons their local middle school closed down, and they had no choice but to transfer schools… to one above the surface. The story follows a circle of childhood friends from the sea, living in an underwater village called Shioshishio. Now, ages later, the population has been split completely into land people and sea people, and they generally live quite isolated from each other. In this story, people originally came from the ocean, however over time there were ones who started crawling up on land as well to see what lay above the surface of the water. world where there exist two different subspecies of humans. Nagi no Asukara (or Nagi-Asu for short) takes place in a fantasy Consequently, if there was one thing I didn't expect coming into this, it'd be that it turned out to be the most beautiful anime TV-series I've seen aired since 2011. In the case of Nagi no Asukara, on the surface (or below the surface in this case) it mostly looks like yet another done-to-death high-school romcom. Every so often you come across an anime that just blows your expectations out of the water and delivers something completely different. The age-old idiom of "don't judge a book by its cover" never ceases to amaze me. Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea. Nagi no Asu kara follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea.
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