Review of A Lull in the Sea

**Spoiler free review** Nagi No Asukara is one of my all time favorites. I got inspired writing this review while re-watching the series. Now that we're close to Christmas It's perfect time to watch this series. While It might sound silly, in Nagi No Asukara there are two races of people; surface and sea dwellers. They're practically the same but sea dwellers got this mysterious "ena" that allows them to live underwater. I'll tell a little about the beginning of the story so you'll get some kind of picture what this anime is about. There's 4 childhood friends who live under sea in the village of Shioshishio. Thestory starts when their school gets closed and they have to go attend school on the surface. While they go attend school on the surface many complicated things start to happen, I won't spoil you but there's quite a bit of drama, comedy, some mystery, slice of life and romance. And I tell you folks, there Isn't love triangle.. It's a freaking love web, so pack your bags and get ready for feels train.

The characters in this show are exceptional compared to your ordinary anime. They all get tremendous amount of character progression and the four first episodes are all about introducing the characters and showing you what the world around them is like. One of the characters in the beginning might annoy you, but I assure you that after couple episodes he'll become your favorite. In the end there is not a single unlikeable character in Nagi no asukara.

My favorite aspect of the series is It's superior art and music quality, It'll make your jaw drop. Even now when I'm writing this review I'm drinking tea and listening the soundtrack. I love how they've created this lovely sea village which has this great atmosphere, waves splashing the docks, buildings slightly rusting from the salty sea wind and people doing their daily routines.

Now I'll talk a bit about the themes of this series. In my opinion the main theme of the anime is change and how scary it is and how it affects everyone. Not going more deeply into that since it would reveal slight spoilers. Other main themes are of course friendship, love and understanding in all of It's aspects.
This series has some nice critique about racism. Land -and sea dwellers can't get along that well because of their history, but along the series they start to understand each other.

** Slight spoilers**

There is a MAJOR change in tone of the anime about halfway the series. There's a timeskip and It'll get much darker and get's some refreshing themes like loss and well, the change. I very much enjoyed the second Arc of Nagi No Asukara.

**End of Spoilers**

Final thoughts

Nagi No Asukara is underrated masterpiece that will blow your mind away when you give it a few episodes. It has some of the best character -and romance progressions out there. There's also deeper themes hidden in it, It's up to you to figure them out.

Nagi no Asukara is 10/10

Thank you for reading.