Kaijuu no Kodomo

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.

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Sora Main

Uragami, Seishuu Japanese

Azumi, Ruka Main

Ashida, Mana Japanese

Umi Main

Ishibashi, Hiiro Japanese

Anglade Supporting

Morisaki, Win Japanese

Cusack, Jim Supporting

Tanaka, Min Japanese

Dede Supporting

Fuji, Sumiko Japanese

Azumi, Kanako Supporting

Aoi, Yuu Japanese

Azumi, Masaaki Supporting

Inagaki, Gorou Japanese

Tanaka, Eiko Producer

Watanabe, Ayumu Director, Storyboard

Kasamatsu, Kouji Sound Director

Kino, Hanasaki Script

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Sep 3, 2024

re4zen

Recommended

Kaijuu no Kodomo - (Children of the Sea)` Film Artwork 2019.

one word from this movie. "Beautiful"

a little enlightenment;

This story just flows like water. Ruka, is being ridiculed and consumed by his ego caused him to be kicked out of the team. Meanwhile, on his escape journey, he meets a mysterious man (umi) - at the aquarium where his father works. Recommended for anime lovers with ocean, summer & fantasy aesthetic themes

nb: *additionally there are many beautiful messages conveyed in this film & packaged in such a beautiful and poetic way. `Not recommended for those who don't like with pure art and according to the theme ... presented, you won't really like it, Every movement, action or reflection is depicted here beautifully, here is a small deep example: "Aren't we better than the universe? `We are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us." :)

**The right timing is also necessary, Me-Time "a time when someone takes a break from all their busy lives and enjoys their own time." (highly recommend> watching the original licensed version (Netflix) because it guarantees a full 1080p experience, it doesn't have to be 4K.< after burnout from whatever work it is. a type of seinen whose target audience is not for everyone,

- This Film is very Peaceful and Beautiful.

Thank You
01/06/24

Grade: A+

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 26, 2024

literallysolame

Mixed Feelings

The Children of the Sea is a film I would recommend a friend to watch by themselves at 2-3am with little to no explanation.

The film is very alluring and captivating even with visuals alone. Some of the best animated sea life there is. From ribbon eels to false killer sharks the scenery is illuminating and stunning.

Very good at keeping your attention by going from a melancholy sunny scene to something darker and more fast paced.

Some of scenes were genuinely so intense (not content wise but by use of sounds and visuals) that I was taken aback or caught off guard.

If you are not ... a fan of films that are more emotional in nature rather than literal than this may not be your flavor of tea. There is a lot of fantastical elements that can be hard to attach to in terms of a plot. At times it often feels more like a visual and auditory experience than it does a concrete story. So that looseness and lack of rigidity in terms of story can be a fault if that is what you are wishing to derive from a film.

The characters themselves serve as devices to explore the world in which the film is set in and everhthing works together to propel the film forward in that way. The change of pace from a typical summer childhood adolescence animation was personally a treat for me, so if you like odd tasting candy maybe try it out yourself.

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Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 28, 2023

nozomiEX

Not Recommended

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Kaijuu 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 of ... narrative 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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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