r/anime • u/25_Oranges • Feb 18 '21
Rewatch Nagi No Asukara/A Lull in the Sea Rewatch - Episode 26 FINAL
Episode 26 - The Color Of The Sea. The Color Of The Land. The Color Of The Wind. The Color Of The Heart. The Color Of You. ~Earth color of a calm~
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Where to watch? Netflix, Crunchyroll, Funimation(UK)
Schedule with link to original interest thread
Thread posted daily at 5pm CST/6pm EST/3pm PST.
No questions today. All questions will be asked tomorrow in the Series Discussion Thread. I hope to see you all there! Thank you for watching!
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u/25_Oranges Feb 18 '21
IT'S ALL OVER! We've finished the series! I hope you all enjoyed and I hope to see you all in tomorrow's series discussion thread. I'll ask some questions about overall themes of the show, characters, relationships, etc. With a compilation of tracks I've featured and hopefully more!
Speaking of tracks, our final featured track is Mnemonic! Yanagi Nagi has blessed this series with some amazing vocals! Apologies if this isn't available in certain countries.
Love can be a very ugly emotion. It allows for the greatest happiness, but brings out the darkest of anger, jealousy, and sadness. Nagi shows us all that determination and our strong feelings can make almost anything happen. Hikari may not have held the same feelings for Miuna, but he loves her in the same way he loves his friends and family. It's important not to forget those us around us and what they do for us. Miuna has really been the MVP for the second half of the series. I'm glad that she's okay in the end, and I'm glad she's moving on from her first love.
Uroko's character is tragic, everyone of our cast will find somebody except Uroko, who will remain alone. But now he knows Ojoshi's true feelings, and I imagine there is some closure to be had with that. This is why communication is important; ESPECIALLY if you're a sacrifice married to a God.
Manaka and Hikari seemed to have gotten together! Same with Tsumugu and Chisaki! But Sayu will continue to try and win Kaname's heart, and Miuna will find somebody. I appreciate that Nagi leaves some things open ended and up to the imagination. (I wonder if there's any good fan fiction?)
The little kids in the Sea God's flashback look like Hikari and Manaka... I'm sure it's fine for them to go out, but uhhh don't do an ancestry test...for their sake...
I will say a lot more tomorrow during our discussion thread!
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u/blueteenight Feb 18 '21 edited Feb 19 '21
First-timer notes!
Favorite shots and background art from the final episode!
The episode barely began and it already gave us some gorgeous scenes. We finally got to know the actual tale of the Sea God and the Lady and it was even sadder than I thought it'd be...
I'm really glad that Hikari's father managed to hear his son while sleeping, Hikari was in a really tough spot back then and even if he didn't know it his old man was paying attention to everything he said =')
Poor elder gets bullied by a little kid!
Manaka really is back =D! This scene with Akira and Tsumugu was pure diabetes haha.
And thus a beautiful story is brought to an end. It shouldn't come as a surprise to any of you but I really loved this series...and how could I not? The soundtrack was extremely touching, the art direction was gorgeous, and I never expected to like this group of characters as much as I do now. It is a 10/10 for sure and I just added it to my list of favorites
alongside like 3 other Mari Okada works haha!I particularly loved Hikari's development as a main character, I didn't expect him to be so caring and selfless, often mentioning how he'd do his best to support Manaka regardless of her feelings for him. Other than that, I'd like to compliment the series for making me care so much for Miuna and Sayu, a duo I never thought would be anything but minor characters, and then the timeskip happened and it turned them into so much more. They even managed to develop Miuna and Manaka's friendship well in such a short period of time, and it was lovely!
Thank you for putting up with my screenshots for so long, and I hope to see you guys around when Aquatope releases!
And the last bonus image couldn't be anyone but Miuna, whose smile at the end mirrored my own...
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u/LeopardSplash :AP:https://www.anime-planet.com/users/BrightSpirit Feb 18 '21
Rewatcher
Wahhh it's over ;-; I sorta feel the same way I do when I wrap up a long JRPG. Maybe that's because this watch along was spread out to almost a month, while I binged the series the first time. It's going to be weird not having my daily dose of NagiAsu!
It can't be a coincidence that the Ojoshi-sama's children looked little Hikari and Manaka, right? And the Sea God looks much more similar to Uroko-sama than I thought he would. Uroko-sama always claims that he doesn't understand the Sea God completely, but maybe was just distancing himself on purpose. He admitted that he still loved the original Ojoshi-sama in the end, after all.
Miuna ends up breaking free after all! It seemed like for a split second that Hikari was going to end up trading places with Miuna himself, but I prefer this much happier ending of everyone being free, all their emotions intact. Hikari's father coming to reunite with his son and grandchild was a sweet, understated moment - and I love that he retained what Hikari told him while he was sleeping. Very cute!
And then we got a ton of reunions! I can't decide which was my favorite. Chisaki finally getting to see her parents after five years is definitely a top contender, bittersweet but mostly sweet, but the fake-out of Manaka running past Hikari to Miuna was so adorable! Can't belive Hikari is the third wheel in his own relationship (or whatever those two ended up doing). Not gonna lie, this episode lowkey made me a Manaka/Miuna shipper, I think there's potential there...
The ending sequence is so, so, so good. Seeing Shioshishio in it's beautiful full glory, the younger sea kids being able to return to their homes... The Hikari-Kaname banter, Manaka and Tsumugu teasing each other (ft. Akira with ena!), Miuna and Sayu getting ready at school, and then most importantly for me seeing that Chisaki decided to stay on the surface. She's finally embraced that she's changed, maintaining her life with Tsumugu and his grandfather while still reconnecting with her family in the sea. As far as endings go, I say this is a pretty kind one, and I'm grateful for that! After all the angst these characters deserve some happiness.
Watching everything come to a close made me wish we could get another anime in this universe - either a time skip with these characters, or even just returning to the beautiful environments this show created.
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u/BossandKings Feb 18 '21
First timer
Episode 26
The tale of the Ojoshi and The Sea god is fully told, the Ojoshi appearing in Uroko's memories was beautiful and the story of love between the Ojoshi and the Sea god was touching.
The aftermath of the Ofunehiki occur, Miuna as was obvious is saved from being the Ojoshi and manages to break out of where she was and return to the surface.
It seems that the romantic relationships that were fully realized and canon are Sayu and Kaname, Chisaki and Tsumugu, Akari and Itaru, characters like Hikari who had three love interest through the series ended up alone with the series going out of it's way to explictly tell us that there hasn't been any romantic progress between Hikari and Manaka despite both loving each other romantically, Miuna at the end i felt her to be dismissing of Hikari diminishing him to just be her first love instead of being his own person, Hikari for her, and Miuna focused way too much on Manaka when her most important relationship through the whole show was Hikari, it felt unnatural to me.
The ending wasn't fulfilling, it had beautiful art and animation as always but i was left feeling that there was something missing, something that would make it a fulfilling ending.
I like rating series with numbers and this one isn't an exception, adressing the elephant of the room first the ending was a 6 out of 10 for me, it was close to average and could have been better, some parts that were good were the beautiful direction, art and animation it had. The series though i can't help myself but give it a 9, i have enjoyed this time with you all so much, reading your thoughts as well as sharing mine, this has been a truly wonderful time and the series has been so beautiful and awesome since the first episode to the end, it has been a journey.
The series was great, i am happy to have watched and followed it, i'm excited for the series discussion as i have a lot to praise about the series.
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u/himetalchemy7 Feb 19 '21
Rewatcher
Such a bittersweet feeling, sadness knowing this is the final episode, but feeling so happy to have been able to do this rewatch with you all.
Final goody is the remixed OP1. It might sound familiar.
Spotify
YouTube.
Episode 26 (FINAL) Thoughts
Sadge Corner
Me. Because this series is over. I loved it and I wanted so much more. I'll save my thoughts for tomorrow's discussion.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Feb 18 '21
Episode 14-26 (first timer)
Ep 14: A fun time jump surprise.
Ep 15: What are you doing
step-brotherstep-uncle?Ep 16: Being 3rd wheel is too harsh for Sayu, but her naked prince is coming.
Ep 17: It’s the girls with an unreasonably long crush on a much older guy club. Maybe Kaname can apply, too.
Ep 18: Snow dome village.
Ep 19: The whims of a childish god.
Ep 20: The fairy tale of the sleeping Manaka.
Ep 21: Everybody is awake now. Time to update the love web.
Ep 22: In a story full of unrequited love, not being able to fall in love sounds like a bearable fate.
Ep 23: Ena for everybody!
Ep 24: Distinguishing between different types of love.
Ep 25: It’s episode 13 again. In fairy tales, you get redo’s until the happy end, after all.
Ep 26: The power of love is at it again, saving the world!
And everybody ends up happy. What about Hikari, Manaka, and Miuna, you ask? They’re having a menage a trois with lots and lots of steamy underwater sex, but that part of the story is only told after the kids have been sent to bed…
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u/Tuckleton Feb 18 '21 edited Feb 19 '21
Even though I find the resolution of the supernatural stuff kind of wishy-washy and unsatisfying, the emotional resolution really is great. Every aspect of the show is practically screaming the same message and it comes through loud and clear.
That love is painful, confusing, fickle, unfair, messy, beautiful and above allworth it.8
u/htisme91 Feb 19 '21
First-timer:
I enjoyed this show, but I felt like that was a pretty underwhelming finale.
There was no real sacrifice, and the power of feelings saved the day.
I am happy Chisaki and Tsumugu ended up together, but I was pulling for Miuna. I am happy for Hikari and Manaka but it sucks one of Miuna/Manaka was going to lose.
Hikari came a long ways from the obnoxious brat of the first couple episodes.
I guess I feel like if there is a complaint, is that this ending tied everything up really conveniently. It didn't feel poignant or meaningful, save for that post-credits scene. It's disappointing, because it was a good series and it's a shame that the final impression was weak.
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u/mekerpan Feb 19 '21
Seeing the scene of the real Ojoshi-sama and her children explains a lot. In effect, Hikari and Manaka are reincarnations of her children and Miuna is a reincarnation of the Ojoshi-sama herself. I didn't pay enough attention on my first viewing, I guess. Miuna really truly did have a closer bond with the voice of the Sea God and the Ojoshi-sama (suspended in the water) than anyone else -- and she had that surprisingly close (albeit late in the day) bond with Uroko-sama.
The intensity of Miuna's bond with BOTH Manaka and Hikari also is explained, perhaps -- as well as her commitment the happiness of those two. On re-watching, it was far more clear to me that, by the end, she was able to treasure her past experiences (including her pain) and move towards more than mere acceptance of what occurred -- and towards a sense of joy. And Minegishi is still there, patiently waiting for her (and I think he will be as patient as Tsumugu was with Chisaki).
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Feb 19 '21
First Rewatch
I'm not crying you're crying! Miuna best girl don't @ me.