“Princess seeks water-saving sage atop giant tree; meets Kaina, who joins her perilous descent to war-torn Earth.”
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
大雪海のカイナ
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Synopsis
Princess seeks water-saving sage atop giant tree; meets Kaina, who joins her perilous descent to war-torn Earth.
Humanity is facing extinction. In a snow-covered world where water has become scarce, the last habitable lands are located at the feet of gigantic Orbital Trees scattered about the desolated Earth. According to a legend, there exists a sage who knows the secret to producing abundant quantities of water to save mankind. Ririha, the princess of Atland, uses an organic hot-air balloon to climb to the top of an Orbital Tree in hopes of meeting her country's savior. Once she reaches the Canopy—an area that appears to be an infinite window of transparent ice—she meets Kaina, one of the last men alive on the Canopy. However, she can not find the man she was looking for. Unable to return by herself to her country, the princess finds a helping hand in Kaina, who is eager to explore the surface world that he thought was empty. As Kaina learns about the war against Ririha's country, the antagonistic technologically advanced nation Valghia, and other perils of the surface, he realizes that his escorting mission will prove more difficult than he imagined.
What people say
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Derived from 22 sampled reviews
What 22 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.72 · some divergence
4.0 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 3.5
↓ 2.18
Running avg · Jan 2023 → Oct 2024
- 8 “The best is part is when Kil... Uh, Kaina whips out the GBE... I mean, Bark Cutter and mamoru's Cibo... errr, Liliha so hard and Sanak... I mean Amelothé is like "wowie!" AND IT WAS TOHA HEAVY...”
- 8 “This is the most underrated show of the season. The world in which the story takes place is a world covered in a "snow sea" which true to the name looks like snow at the surface and behaves much...”
- 7 “This is a pretty fun anime. The concept is really interesting, and there weren't any times when I felt that the story was just dragging along for the sake of increasing the amount of episodes. The...”
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A Tv Production · Winter 2023
Polygon Pictures.Sony Pictures Entertainment · Dentsu
- Format 11 × 22′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 02m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2023 – Mar 2023 Winter 2023
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-21601 catalog
Produced by
- Sony Pictures Entertainment Producer
- Dentsu Producer
- Fuji TV Producer
- BS Fuji Producer
- bilibili Producer
- Crunchyroll Producer
- NetEase Producer