Review of A Lull in the Sea
Let's face it, the animation and art style were the two things that really drew me into this show. They were able to combine elements from lots of different movies and make it into something unique. The story starts off with 4 middle school students who live in the sea. They are forced to attend school on the surface after their school closes. What follows is an immense adjusting to the life in Oshiooshi. At first, the sea and the surface are tense and upset with each other, but somehow this anime tells the tale of how they are able to finally have the twovillages coincide. Alongside that, there's a growing climate change that will affect the two worlds unless something is done.
This anime has it's positives and it's negatives. I'll start with the positives.
Animation
Stated above. Probably the MOST beautifully animated and drawn anime I've ever seen. That made up for the negatives in the show! I can go on and on about it. I mean, just look at the screenshots and the pictures!
Music
A beachy/sea anime has to have good music that makes you feel like you're at the ocean, and A Lull in the Sea does exactly. The soundtrack is so well written, and it will have you connecting with the sounds of the ocean.
Characters
For me, this one was impressive, the character development was amazing. Since this anime was focused on changing, you could tell they put a lot of effort into how the characters adapted to their new enviornment. Probably my favorite out of all the characters was Hikari. He just really changed for the better, and it was so nice to see that progression, while still mainting his stubborn character that made him lovable.
Story Progression
They split it up into two arcs, and it was very effectively done. The pacing was great and I didn't ever feel like it was moving slowly.
~Neutral~
The love triangle...or Polygon...
I do like romance, and I know this was a big part of the anime. I did enjoy the romance but at times it got me kind of irritated since most of the love was unriquitted and it just didn't seem to get anywhere. It had me feeling annoyed when things didn't work out. It was really big mess of this person liking this person, but that person liked another person and so on. Most that stuff doesn't get resoved until the end. I still found the drama and the feelings that the characters went through relatable and it did keep me hooked as I wanted to know who ened up with who.
~Negatives~
The Ending
This may be just me but I was a little sad at the ending. It wasn't terrible, per say, but I wish things had been different. I won't spoil anything, but I did finish the anime and say "man, i wish that ____ happened". That's more just personally. If you don't care about said thing, it is a nice ending. They tied it all together and it was very cute! (sorry this makes no sense)
So as you can see it was a very great expirience. It's a good length and if you like romance, and drama, this will be the anime for you because there's lots of it! I hope you enjoyed my review, congrats if you read until the end haha.I had a hard time rating this anime a 9, to be honest it should be a 9.5 or higher in my book. Definitley one of my top 10!