Review of A Lull in the Sea

They aren't joking: this is the most Love Polygon show I've come across. EVERY major character is part of one giant clusterfuck. It's pretty cringe, but the other parts of the plot really make up for it and make this a good viewing. It gets off to a slow start, with the relationship melodrama taking the center stage, and the topic of racism. It drags out for such a long while that I started to assume the whole show was like this. But, the show turned out to be Very Surprising, indeed. Big things start happening in the middle, and the show starts to introduce othertopics. This is where it gets really interesting. Though, after stabilizing, it returns back to love polygon angst taking the center stage. It comes to a nice beautiful conclusion where everything is wrapped up.

A big issue I have is that most of the characters are unlikable, which makes it hard to care about their relationships. It's hard to see why so many characters fall in love with other characters, when I don't see them as lovable.

It's refreshing to see a fantasy world which is not a swords and sorcery fantasy. It's squandered by making the underwater village basically a copy of real life above ground architecture and technology, with nonsensical roads, people walking around, crying tears, cooking with a pot on the stove in the standard kitchen (though they are supposed to be underwater), etc. The mythology is pretty cool, with a festival which feels authentic.

The music is pretty nice. I like both OP and EDs.