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===Anime===
===Anime===
{{main|List of Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea episodes}}
The anime series is produced by [[P.A. Works]] and directed by [[Toshiya Shinohara]]. The screenplay is written by [[Mari Okada]] and the original character designs are by [[Buriki]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-09-26/kana-hanazawa-leads-p.a-works-nagi-no-asu-kara-cast |title=Kana Hanazawa Leads P.A. Works' Nagi no Asu Kara Cast |publisher=Anime News Network |date=2012-09-26 |accessdate=2012-11-04}}</ref> It started airing on October 3, 2013. For episodes 1 to 13, the opening theme is {{Nihongo|"lull (Soshite Bokura wa)"|lull〜そして僕らは〜}} by [[Ray (Japanese singer)|Ray]] and the ending theme is {{Nihongo|"Aqua Terrarium"|アクアテラリウム|Akua Terariumu}} by [[Nagi Yanagi]]. For episode 14 onwards, the opening and ending themes are "Ebb and Flow" by Ray and "Mitsuba no Musubi me" by Nagi Yanagi respectively. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animate.tv/news/details.php?id=1377602084|title=アニメ『凪のあすから』のOPテーマにRayさん、EDテーマにやなぎなぎさんが決定!|publisher=[[Animate]]|date=August 27, 2013|accessdate=August 27, 2013}}</ref> [[Nippon Ichi Software|NIS America]] acquired the home video and streaming rights to the anime.<ref>{{cite web|title=NIS America Licenses P.W. Works' Nagi no Asukara Anime|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-12-13/nis-america-licenses-p.a-works-nagi-no-asukara-tv-anime|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=December 13, 2013|accessdate=December 14, 2013}}</ref>
The anime series is produced by [[P.A. Works]] and directed by [[Toshiya Shinohara]]. The screenplay is written by [[Mari Okada]] and the original character designs are by [[Buriki]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-09-26/kana-hanazawa-leads-p.a-works-nagi-no-asu-kara-cast |title=Kana Hanazawa Leads P.A. Works' Nagi no Asu Kara Cast |publisher=Anime News Network |date=2012-09-26 |accessdate=2012-11-04}}</ref> It started airing on October 3, 2013. For episodes 1 to 13, the opening theme is {{Nihongo|"lull (Soshite Bokura wa)"|lull〜そして僕らは〜}} by [[Ray (Japanese singer)|Ray]] and the ending theme is {{Nihongo|"Aqua Terrarium"|アクアテラリウム|Akua Terariumu}} by [[Nagi Yanagi]]. For episode 14 onwards, the opening and ending themes are "Ebb and Flow" by Ray and "Mitsuba no Musubi me" by Nagi Yanagi respectively. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animate.tv/news/details.php?id=1377602084|title=アニメ『凪のあすから』のOPテーマにRayさん、EDテーマにやなぎなぎさんが決定!|publisher=[[Animate]]|date=August 27, 2013|accessdate=August 27, 2013}}</ref> [[Nippon Ichi Software|NIS America]] acquired the home video and streaming rights to the anime.<ref>{{cite web|title=NIS America Licenses P.W. Works' Nagi no Asukara Anime|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-12-13/nis-america-licenses-p.a-works-nagi-no-asukara-tv-anime|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=December 13, 2013|accessdate=December 14, 2013}}</ref>


====Episode list====
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{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| EnglishTitle = In Between the Sea and the Land
| RomajiTitle = Umi to Daichi no Mannaka ni
| KanjiTitle = 海と大地のまんなかに
| OriginalAirDate = October 3, 2013
| ShortSummary = Former students of Nami Junior High School, Hikari Sakishima, Chisaki Hiradaira, Kaname Isaki, and Manaka Mukaido are forced to attend a school on land called Mihama Junior High School. Hikari's short temper towards Manaka leads to a series of events that culminate in her being caught by Tsumugu Kihara, the son of a fisherman, who also attends Mihama Junior High. On their first day while all four are introducing themselves, they are met with disgust for being sea people and Hikari bites back just as harshly. This is an early sign showing the rift between the land and sea people descendants of a sacrifice (Ofunehiki) to the sea god. After school Manaka and Hikari visit Uroko-sama, the sea god messenger. Manaka brings an offering and after Uroko-sama tries to seduce her, she hits him in the face and is cursed with a fish growing out of her knee the next day. After class, some of Manaka's classmates start to invasively question her whereupon she hits her knee attempting to escape causing a fart sound. Her classmates laugh as she runs away into the forest in embarrassment. Lost, Manaka collapses due to being out of the water for too long and her ena, skin that allows them to live in the sea, begins to dry and flake off. Hikari and the others go looking for her. Luckily Manaka is found by Tsumugu who brings her to his house to rehydrate her. Once awake, she immediately becomes embarrassed as Tsumugu has just seen the fish on her knee. To her surprise he thinks it and her ena are beautiful. Later that evening after searching all day, Hikari meets up with Manaka and Tsumugu and misunderstanding his role, tries to pick a fight with Tsumugu. Manaka intervenes, and Hikari angry at how she was comfortable around another guy, pulls her into the sea with him.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| EnglishTitle = The Chilly Desert
| RomajiTitle = Hiyakkoi Usumaku
| KanjiTitle = ひやっこい薄膜
| OriginalAirDate = October 10, 2013
| ShortSummary = Manaka attempts to instigate another curse when her cursed fish departs to keep Tsumugu happy. Angry about Manaka's acts toward Tsumugu, Hikari verbally lashes out against her during school while Manaka attempts to balance her friendship with Hikari and her relationship with Tsumugu. Tsumugu, Manaka, Hikari, Chisaki, and Kaname all volunteer to make the offering for the Ofunehiki wherein they discuss Shioshishio and Tsumugu. As Manaka, Hikari, Chisaki, and Kaname leave for the day, they spot Akari kissing a man as she is dropped off at the pier. With relationships between sea people and land people on their mind, the four contemplate their individual concerns on the matter. The next day, Chisaki discovers Tsumugu is making a watering hole but wishes Tsumugu wasn't so nice. At Uroko's, Manaka begs to be cursed again being interrupted as elder men of the village dragged Akari to Uroko's place since due to her being involved with someone from the surface. Hikari and Manaka can only watch on as Tomori takes Akari to Uroko.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| EnglishTitle = The Tradition of the Sea
| RomajiTitle = Umi no Iitsutae
| KanjiTitle = 海のいいつたえ
| OriginalAirDate = October 17, 2013
| ShortSummary = As Akari is scolded by her father for disobeying the village's rules, Hikari reminisces about how she always took care of him after their mother's death, and is later informed by Akari that she decided to break up with her boyfriend. The next day, Hikari decides to confront the man and follows him up to Tsumugu's house where he is stopped by Tsumugu's grandfather, who explains to them that aside from the bad mood with the inhabitants of the surface, people from the village are not allowed to marry those from outside as their children will be born without ena. The children become unable to survive underwater and thus the former inhabitants are forced to leave Shioshishio to raise them. During so, Hikari discovers that Tsumugu's grandfather also came from the village. On the next day, Hikari stops being hostile to Tsumugu and he becomes friends with the rest of the group after they finally complete the offering together. Knowing how much she is suffering with their separation, Hikari decides to make amends with Akari's boyfriend, but is stopped by the two girls who fought him before and one of them reveals that said man is her father.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| EnglishTitle = Because We're Friends
| RomajiTitle = Tomodachi nanda kara
| KanjiTitle = 友達なんだから
| OriginalAirDate = October 24, 2013
| ShortSummary = Miuna and her friend Sayu ask Hikari to come up with a plan to break apart Akari and her father Itaru for good but he declines, claiming that he despises underhand schemes. In home economics class, Manaka decides to have some of her classmates taste the dish she made with her friends in an attempt to befriend them too, but they shove her away dropping it on the ground and cause a commotion in class. The boys refuse to apologize and when Hikari learns that someone destroyed the offering, he blames them for it while the real culprit, Sayu confesses that she did it to get back at Hikari for refusing to help them. Remembering Hikari's words Miuna reprimands her friend for it and while returning home, Hikari and Manaka rescue Itaru from drowning after he borrowed some diving gear to see Akari at the village and they discover that Miuna's deceased mother was from Shioshishio. Meanwhile, Akari reveals to Uroko that she was friends with Miuna and her family and after her mother died, she decided to take care of her and her father in her place, but with Miuna's rejection, she decided to give up on it. After learning from Sayu that she was the one who destroyed the offering, Hikari apologizes to the boys that he wrongly accused and Manaka stands up for him, which makes Chisaki sad as once again Manaka helps Hikari while she could do nothing for him.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| EnglishTitle = Hey, Sea Slug
| RomajiTitle = Ano ne Umiushi
| KanjiTitle = あのねウミウシ
| OriginalAirDate = October 31, 2013
| ShortSummary = Still depressed with what happened, Chisaki does not join her friends on their way to school and when she finally leaves, she meets Tsumugu. Chisaki then confesses to Tsumugu that she likes Hikari unaware that Manaka, who returned to pick her up, was hearing them. Meanwhile, Akari breaks up for good with Itaru, claiming that she would never replace Miuna's mother in her heart. However, Akari learns later that Miuna diappeared and after warning Hikari about it, he and his friends manage to find her. Claiming to his sister that they will take care of her for the night, Hikari and co. have dinner with Miuna and after the others leave home, Miuna confesses to Hikari that she always liked Akari, but rejects her out of fear of one day losing her just like it happened with her mother and Hikari manages to cheer her up. In the next day, a worried Akari finds Hikari and Miuna sleeping peacefully beside each other and reconciles with her.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| EnglishTitle = Beyond Tomoebi
| RomajiTitle = Tomoebi no Mukō
| KanjiTitle = 巴日のむこう
| OriginalAirDate = November 7, 2013
| ShortSummary = The children are taking swim classes and the boys get hyped upon Chisaki's body. Hikari and Tsumugu decide to have a small competition but Hikari ends up crushing his toenail and Manaka rushes in quickly to assist him, leaving Chisaki once again ashamed as once again Manaka stood up to him ahead of her, to the point of refusing to help taking him to the infirmary and Hikari gets frustrated not only for hurting himself, but for realizing that Tsumugu can swim faster than him at the surface. After classes, the children join together to rebuild the Ofunehiki, joined later by Miuna, Sayu and the rest of the class. However, Chisaki leaves earlier and Manaka fails to cheer her up, as she is still troubled by her feelings. On her way back home, Manaka meets Tsumugu and reminisces about the day when she and her friends failed to witness the Tomoebi, a rare underwater natural phenomenon because it took to long for her to join them. Back at Shioshishio, Manaka witness the Tomoebi starting again and manages to call Chisaki to watch it with her, and taking Tsumugu's advice, she speaks her mind without hesitating to reconcile with her, but regretting that they could not watch it together with the boys, unaware that Hikari and Kaname are watching it too while overhearing them.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7
| EnglishTitle = The Ofunehiki Shakes
| RomajiTitle = Ofunehiki Yurete
| KanjiTitle = おふねひきゆれて
| OriginalAirDate = November 14, 2013
| ShortSummary = Assisted by their friends, the children manage to rebuild the Ofunehiki. However, the real festival will not be held as the fishermen and the men from Shioshishio are at odds with each other. After helping the others to collect signatures for a petition to hold the festival again, Hikari fails to convince his father Tomori to comply but he ends up taking part in the reunion between both parts arranged by him. Despite being impressed at first with the offering, it does not take long for both sides to reignite their old feuds and start fighting, a situation that gets even more hectic when Akari and Itaru enter the room together, to the point that the offering is destroyed once again by accident. After the failed meeting, Tomori attempts to once again persuade her to break up with Itaru but she had made her decision and prepares herself to leave her house in Shioshishio. Hikari decides to leave with her as well but Uroko uses his powers in attempt to stop them until Tomori asks him to let them go.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8
| EnglishTitle = Beyond the Wavering Feelings
| RomajiTitle = Tayutau Omoi no Saki
| KanjiTitle = たゆたう想いのさき
| OriginalAirDate = November 21, 2013
| ShortSummary = Hikari and Akari move to Itaru's house and after dinner, Itaru reaffirms his intention to have Akari's father and the rest of Shioshishio acknowledge their union. Miuna asks Hikari to help her look for a present to Akari and he calls the rest of his friends to accompany them to the city. At the train station, they encounter Tsumugu who later leads them around the city. They check stores around the city for an affordable necklace for Akari. In one of the stores, Chisaki and Hikari get left behind since the elevator was full. Chisaki uses this moment to discuss with Hikari his feelings for Manaka. Hikari claims that if Manaka chooses to be with Tsumugu, he will respect that. After choosing the present she intends to buy, Miuna asks her father for some extra money just to later discover that the necklace in question is sold out. Hikari and the others decides to help her search for some shells to craft a similar necklace instead. When Miuna finally gives the necklace to Akari, it starts snowing and Hikari recognizes that it is in fact saline snow, a phenomenon that supposedly only occurs underwater.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 9
| EnglishTitle = Unknown Warmth
| RomajiTitle = Shiranai Nukumori
| KanjiTitle = 知らないぬくもり
| OriginalAirDate = November 28, 2013 <ref name="syoboi">{{cite web|url=http://cal.syoboi.jp/tid/3161/time|title=凪のあすから|work=cal.syoboi.jp|accessdate=November 27, 2013}}</ref>
| ShortSummary = The adults of Shioshishio are assembled by Uroko who reveals that a catastrophe is coming. Meanwhile the students continue their preparations for the upcoming festival when Chisaki feels ill and Tsumugu takes her to the sea to restore her Ena. In the occasion, Tsumugu asks her if she has given up on Hikari and she decides to go home instead. Kaname accompanies her and they arrive at the village to be received by the adults carrying blue lanterns. Manaka follows soon after and when she arrives home, she is informed that from then on it is forbidden to return to the surface. In the next day Hikari learns that all of his friends from Shioshishio are absent from school and he returns to the village to find out why. Manaka informs him that they are forbidden to leave the village as a calamity is impending and expresses her will to support him. Despite knowing that Manaka only views him as a friend, Hikari does not resist the urge to embrace her and he flees after a surprised Manaka shoves him away.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 10
| EnglishTitle = The Saltflake Snow Falls and Falls
| RomajiTitle = Nukumi Yuki Furufuru
| KanjiTitle = ぬくみ雪ふるふる
| OriginalAirDate = December 5, 2013
| ShortSummary = Hikari is informed that according to Uroko, the Sea God's power is weakening and thus the saltflake snow will keep falling and cooling the world until it freezes, possibly killing all humans in the surface in the process until his powers renew and the world is restored to its former self. To avoid this fate, the people undersea will enter into hibernation and the villagers will gather for a banquet on friday, entering into a fasting period after that until the hibernation begins. Believing that the only way to please the Sea God and prevent this catastrophe is to perform the Ofunehiki, Hikari convinces Uroko to let him and his friends go to school until the time for their hibernation and they revew their effort to make it happen. During the banquet, Manaka is distraught upon the current situation and when she finally finds a sea slug with a red belly, she makes a wish for it. In the next day, Kaname approaches Chisaki and confesses his feelings for her.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 11
| EnglishTitle = The Changing Times
| RomajiTitle = Kawariyuku Toki
| KanjiTitle = 変わりゆくとき
| OriginalAirDate = December 12, 2013
| ShortSummary = After Kaname's confession, he and Chisaki accompany their friends to school as if nothing had happened. After their fast begins, the people of Shioshishio's Ena gets thicker in preparation for their hibernation, thus the children need to ressuply it with water more frequently while on surface. Fearing that they might never see their friends again after their sleep begins, Hikari and the others start eating again to delay the process. Meanwhile, Akari and Itaru make plans for their marriage while the fishermen asks Hikari to help them perform the Ofunehiki to please the Sea God and stop the cold. However, Iroko claims that their efforts at that point are futile but Hikari insists that they must do something. Assisted by the rest of the city, the children make their preparations for the ritual, but apparently it will happen in the same day the sea dwellers will start their hibernation. However, Akari asks the others to have her replace the offering, claiming that after pleasing the sea god she will return to marry Itaru with his blessing. After the others agree with her request, Chisaki, following Kaname's example decides to confess her feelings for Hikari as well.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 12
| EnglishTitle = I Want to be Kind
| RomajiTitle = Yasashiku Naritai
| KanjiTitle = 優しくなりたい
| OriginalAirDate = December 19, 2013
| ShortSummary = As preparations are made for both the Ofunehiki and Akari's wedding, Tsumugu accompanies Manaka and Chisaki to the city to choose her wedding dress when Tsumugu has a brief encounter with his mother and he seems displeased upon seeing her. Meanwhile, Akari has a short meeting with her father and expresses her will to have with Itaru and Miuna the same happiness he provided to his children after his wife passed away. Back to Shioshishio, Hikari and his friends learn that those younger then them are already entering into hibernation and despite their efforts to delay the process, it is a question of time for the same to happen to them as well. Once reliving some of their memories from their old school, Kaname asks Hikari about his feelings for Manaka in front of the girls, and he finally confesses to her. A surprised Manaka runs away and Hikari chases after her, but Chisaki stops him for a while, and after confessing her feelings for him as well, she asks him to go after her. While running away from the village, Manaka ends up trapped again into Tsumugu's fishing net and she meets him.
}}
{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 13
| EnglishTitle = Unreachable Fingertips
| RomajiTitle = Todokanu Yubisaki
| KanjiTitle = 届かぬゆびさき
| OriginalAirDate = December 26, 2013
| ShortSummary = After a brief talk with Tsumugu, Manaka returns home and meets Hikari. In the occasion, Hikari reaffirms his feelings for her and she claims that have something important to tell him after the Ofunehiki. On the day of the ceremony, the rest of Shioshihsio is about to hibernate when Hikari and his friends help in the fishermen take Akari to the sea god as planned when Iroko lights the way for them. Suddenly, the boats are surrouded by whirlpools and both Akari and Tsumugu fall at the sea and are pulled down. While Chisaki and Kaname dive to rescue Tsumugu, Manaka rescues Akari and decides to offer herself instead. Hikari rescues his sister but fails to save Manaka as well. Meanwhile the boat carrying Kaname, Chisaki and Tsumugu makes a fast maneuver to avoid a pillar falling onto them, but Kaname falls in the occasion and his fate is uncertain, while a strange barrier covers the entire Shioshishio.
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{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 14
| EnglishTitle = The Promised Day
| RomajiTitle = Yakusoku no Hi
| KanjiTitle = 約束の日
| OriginalAirDate = January 9, 2014
| ShortSummary = Five years later, the sea over Shioshishio is frozen and the surface enters into a continued winter. Chisaki pays a visit to Tsumugu's grandfather Isamu at the hospital before returning to meet Akari and her son, Akira. In the occasion, they reminisce about how Miuna cheered Akari up after she had found out that she was pregnant and was too worried about Hikari and the others to be happy with it. Meanwhile at the school, the students are informed that a Tomoebi will occur over the sea and they decide to have a party at the shore when Miuna is warned by Sayu that one of their classmates intends to confess to her in the occasion. It is also revealed that after being shut out from home, Chisaki is taken in at Tsumugu's house by Isamu and they live together until Isamu gets hospitalized and Tsumugu leaves to study [[oceanography]] at the college in order to learn more about the situation at the sea villages and their connection with the climate changes at the rest of the world. During the Tomoebi, Miuna is asked out by her friend, but she declines, claiming that she likes someone else, when a strange light appears and Tsumugu, who is studying the phenomena with his teacher, meets Miuna at the place where the light appeared and they find a naked Hikari, who did not get older at all since that day.
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{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 15
| EnglishTitle = The Protector of Smiles
| RomajiTitle = Egao no Mamoribito
| KanjiTitle = 笑顔の守り人
| OriginalAirDate = January 16, 2014
| ShortSummary = Chisaki learns of Hikari's return but refrains from meeting him. Meanwhile, Hikari is still recovering from his hibernation when he meets some of his old friends and the fishermen association presents him with the same flag he used during the Ofunehiki. Still refusing to meet Hikari, Chisaki confesses to Tsumugu that she is afraid of how Hikari will react upon seeing her. However, Hikari dives into the sea and attempts to return to Shioshishio but the sea currents drive him away. Before he makes another attempt, Tsumugu appears and confronts him for not going to meet Chisaki and hears from him that he is too scared with how much things changed while he was asleep. While returning home, Hikari hears a song and learns that the song is played everyday for the residents of Shioshishio who are still asleep and following the sound, he encounters Chisaki and the two finally meet again.
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{{Japanese episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 16
| EnglishTitle = The Whispers of the Faraway Waves
| RomajiTitle = Tōi Nami no Sasayaki
| KanjiTitle = 遠い波のささやき
| OriginalAirDate = January 23, 2014
| ShortSummary = Hikari goes back to school with Miuna and Sayu. The next day, while Akira has rubella, Sayu accompanies Miuna and Hikari to the city to choose Hikari's school uniform when Miuna and Sayu have a discussion where Sayu admits to be jealous that good things only happen to Miuna. The two girls separate and Hikari, after attending at the end of the argument, decides to stay with Sayu. He and Shun are driving Sayu home when Hikari stops the car and go to the place where he is sure to find Miuna, which is the same place where he saved her five years ago. He finds Miuna and after a boom dolly collapse just in front of the two, Miuna falls into the water. Surprisingly, Miuna ends up breathing under water and swims looking at the bottom of the sea, until she sees Hikari swimming towards her. When they are out of the water, Miuna meets Sayu who was worried and apologizes to her. That day Kaname wakes up.
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| EpisodeNumber = 17
| EnglishTitle = The Sick Two
| RomajiTitle = Byōki na Futari
| KanjiTitle = ビョーキなふたり
| OriginalAirDate = January 30, 2014
| ShortSummary =
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Nagi no Asukara: A Lull in the Sea
Promotional poster of the Nagi no Asukara anime featuring main characters.
凪のあすから
(Nagi no Asukara)
GenreComedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Manga
Written byProject-118
Illustrated byRisō Maeda
Published byASCII Media Works
MagazineDengeki Daioh
DemographicShōnen
Original runJune 2013 – present
Volumes1
Anime television series
Directed byToshiya Shinohara
Written byMari Okada
StudioP.A. Works
Licensed by
Original networkAnimax, Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS, TVA, FTB, BBT, ITC
Original run October 3, 2013 – present
Episodes26
Manga
Nagi no Asukara 4-koma Gekijō: Nagiyon
Written byProject-118
Illustrated byAnko Chatō
Published byASCII Media Works
MagazineDengeki Daioh g
DemographicSeinen
Original runSeptember 27, 2013 – present

Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea, known in Japan as Nagi no Asukara (凪のあすから, lit. From The Calm Tomorrow), is a 2013 Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works. The series centers around five junior-high school friends. The indecisive crybaby Manaka Mukaido, Hikari Sakishima, Chisaki Hiradaira, Kaname Isaki, who have looked after Manaka since they were children, and Tsumugu Kihara, their new friend from the surface. A manga adaptation by Risō Maeda began serialization in the June 2013 issue of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh magazine.

Plot

Long ago, human civilization had lived on the ocean floor. However, there were many humans who wanted to live above the surface and they moved to land creating a fundamental separation between the two. After their school closed down, four 14-year old middle school students from the sea village, Shioshishio, had to attend Mihama Middle School on the surface. This is about their lives and how they adjust to a new environment and the relationships between the sea and surface people.

Characters

Main characters

Hikari Sakishima (先島 光, Sakishima Hikari)
Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae, Megumi Han (young)
One of 4 childhood friends from Shioshishio. He has a short temper and usually scolds Manaka for her mistakes though he has feelings for her. He is the son of Shioshishio's Chief Priest that serves the Sea God. At first, he hates all people from the surface but after learning about the relationships between the land and sea humans (through Akari and Itaru), he gradually understands that there is no difference between the people from the surface and the sea. He went into hibernation shortly after saving Akari during the Ofunehiki festival.
After the 5-year timeskip, Hikari reappears during a Tomoebi without any signs of aging. He rejoins Mihama Middle School as classmates with Miuna and Sayu.
Manaka Mukaido (向井戸 まなか, Mukaido Manaka)
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa
One of the students from Shioshishio. She is an indecisive, middle schooler who is prone to cry. Manaka is shown to have feelings for Tsugumu. She is highly dependent on Hikari and Chisaki. As time passes, she starts to become more independent. She fell into the sea and disappeared after saving Akari during the Ofunehiki festival.
Chisaki Hiradaira (比良平 ちさき, Hiradaira Chisaki)
Voiced by: Ai Kayano
One of the students from Shioshishio. She has feelings for Hikari but is afraid to admit it after realizing he is in love with Manaka. She is afraid it will ruin their relationships and hides her feelings. Chisaki is the only character from Shioshishio who avoided hibernation after the Ofunehiki festival.
After the timeskip, she lives with the Kihara family and became a nurse in training after high school.
Kaname Isaki (伊佐木 要, Isaki Kaname)
Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka
One of four childhood friends from Shioshishio. Hikari's best friend who is quiet and mature for his age and cares deeply for Chisaki. He appears to be jealous of Chisaki's relationship with Tsumugu and Hikari. During the Ofunehiki festival, he went into hibernation after falling off the boat while helping Chisaki save Tsumugu.
After the timeskip, similarly with Hikari, Kaname woke up without aging.
Tsumugu Kihara (木原 紡, Kihara Tsumugu)
Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa
A boy from the surface whose grandfather is a fisherman. One day, he meets Manaka by reeling her in a net. He is quiet, stoic, and very interested in the underwater world. His grandfather is from the sea. Tsumugu has a complicated relationship with his mother.
After the timeskip, he attends college and majors in oceanography. He lives in the city and does research at his university about the sea villages.
Miuna Shiodome (潮留 美海, Shiodome Miuna)
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu
A third grade elementary school girl who is Itaru's daughter. Miuna met Akari when she visited them shortly after she was born. She loves Akari but the thought of losing her like her mother caused her to refuse to accept Akari as family. Later on, she overcomes her fear and fully accepts Akari as her new mother. She has a crush on Hikari.
After the timeskip, she enters middle school with Sayu while her feelings for Hikari have only grown stronger. After falling into the sea by accident, Miuna also discovers that she also has the ability to breathe underwater like her mother.
Sayu Hisanuma (久沼 さゆ, Hisanuma Sayu)
Voiced by: Kaori Ishihara
A third grade elementary school girl with light brown pigtails and hazel eyes. She is Miuna's best friend and has a crush on Kaname.
After the timeskip, she enters middle school with Miuna and decides to study hard to become an independent woman.

Shioshishio residents

Tomoru Sakishima (先島 灯, Sakishima Tomori)
Voiced by: Masuo Amada
Hikari's and Akari's father who is the Chief Priest of Shioshishio. He cares for his children and wants them to make their own decisions.
Uroko-sama (うろこ様, Uroko-sama)
Voiced by: Kousuke Toriumi
A scale and messenger of the Sea God. He ensures everyone follows the laws of the village. He is perverted and enjoys drinking sake.

Oshiooshi residents

Shiodome Family

Akari Shiodome (潮留 あかり, Shiodome Akari)
Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka
Hikari's older sister who married Itaru, Miuna's father. She was a friend of Miori and grew to love their family. When Miori died, she wanted to be there to support them.
After the timeskip, she has a 5 year old son named Akira.
Itaru Shiodome (潮留 至, Shiodome Itaru)
Voiced by: Junji Majima
Miuna's father. His first wife, Miori was from the sea. After a few years of recovering from Miori's death, he slowly begins a relationship with Akari and eventually marries her.
Akira Shiodome (潮留 晃, Shiodome Akira)
Voiced by: Shizuka Ishigami
Akari and Itaru's son. He is Hikari's nephew who was born during the hibernation of Shioshishio. He is mischievous and only listens to his sister, Miuna.
Miori Shiodome (潮留 みおり, Shiodome Miori)
Voiced by: Aya Endō
Miuna's deceased mother and Akari's close friend. She was from Shioshishio but moved to the surface to marry Itaru.

Tsumugu's Middle School Classmates

Second year students of Mihama Middle School at the start of the show.

Takeshi Egawa (江川 岳, Egawa Takeshi)
Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi
A classmate who helped them built the statue for Ofunehiki.
After the timeskip, he knocked a girl up. He decides to quit college and work at her father's company.
Shun Sayama (狭山 旬, Sayama Shun)
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
A classmate who helped them built the statue for Ofunehiki.
After the timeskip, he is working as the young master of Saya Mart. He loves playing pachinko.
Kaori Akiyoshi (秋吉 香, Akiyoshi Kaori)
Voiced by: Yurika Kubo
One of the classmates who helped built the statue for Ofunehiki. She loves to grope Chisaki.
Yū Seiki (清木 憂, Seiki Yū)
Voiced by: Ikumi Hayama
One of the classmates who helped them build the statue for Ofunehiki. She seems to have an interest in Kaname.

Miuna's Middle School Classmates

Second year students of Mihama Middle School after the timeskip.

Atsushi Minegishi (峰岸 淳, Minegishi Atsushi)
Voiced by: Ayumu Murase
Miuna's classmate who confessed to her and failed.

Others

Isamu Kihara (木原 勇, Kihara Isamu)
Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa
A former resident of Shioshishio and Tsumugu's grandfather who is also a fisherman. After the disaster that took place during the Ofunehiki, he accepts Chisaki into his household.
After the timeskip, he is shown recuperating in a hospital after his health deteriorated.
Satoru Mihashi (三橋 悟, Mihashi Satoru)
Voiced by: Shinji Kawada
Tsumugu's research professor in university.

Media

Manga

A manga adaptation, written by Project-118 and illustrated by Risō Maeda, began serialization in the June 2013 issue of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh magazine. The first tankōbon volume was released on September 27, 2013.[1] A second, four-panel comic strip manga titled Nagi no Asukara 4-koma Gekijō: Nagiyon (『凪のあすから』4コマ劇場　なぎよん), written by Project-118 and illustrated by Anko Chatō, began serialization on September 27, 2013 in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh g magazine.

Anime

Main article: List of Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea episodes

The anime series is produced by P.A. Works and directed by Toshiya Shinohara. The screenplay is written by Mari Okada and the original character designs are by Buriki.[2] It started airing on October 3, 2013. For episodes 1 to 13, the opening theme is "lull (Soshite Bokura wa)" (lull〜そして僕らは〜) by Ray and the ending theme is "Aqua Terrarium" (アクアテラリウム, Akua Terariumu) by Nagi Yanagi. For episode 14 onwards, the opening and ending themes are "Ebb and Flow" by Ray and "Mitsuba no Musubi me" by Nagi Yanagi respectively. [3] NIS America acquired the home video and streaming rights to the anime.[4]


  1. ^ "凪のあすから 1" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  2. ^ "Kana Hanazawa Leads P.A. Works' Nagi no Asu Kara Cast". Anime News Network. 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
  3. ^ "アニメ『凪のあすから』のOPテーマにRayさん、EDテーマにやなぎなぎさんが決定!". Animate. August 27, 2013. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
  4. ^ "NIS America Licenses P.W. Works' Nagi no Asukara Anime". Anime News Network. December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
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