History Anime / NagiNoAsukara

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''Nagi no Asukara'' (凪のあすから) (''From the Calm Tomorrow'') is a Fall2013Anime television series produced by Creator/PAWorks.

Long ago, humanity lived in the sea. But the humans who longed for the land left the sea behind. They cast aside the special raiment they'd been given by the sea god that let them live in the ocean. The thinking of the sea humans and the land humans became as separate as the places they lived, and as countless time passed, they forgot they were once one people.

In the present day, Namiji Middle School in the sea is shutting down, forcing the four remaining students (Hikari, Manaka, Chisaki, and Kaname) to go to Mihama Middle School on the dry land. Things get even more complicated when Manaka makes friends with Tsumugu, a human boy who accidentally catches Manaka while fishing.

The anime series is also being adapted into a manga which is serialized in ASCII Media Works' Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh manga magazine.

Creator/NISAmerica has the series licensed in North America under the MarketBasedTitle ''A Lull in the Sea'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-10/nagi-no-asukara-a-lull-in-the-sea-gets-english-dub/.85819 and it will be dubbed into English]], making it the 2nd [=NISA=] title to contain an all-new English dub (after ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'').

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!!''Nagi No Asukara'' contains the following examples:

* AdultsAreUseless: Both the grown-ups of the land and the sea can't cooperate and bicker like, well, children. It leads to a fight during a meeting about the Ofunehiki.
* AdultFear: For the sea dwellers, when their child marries a land dweller. A sea dweller who marries a land dweller will be [[TheExile exiled]] from the village, meaning they can never see their child again and they probably can't meet their grandchildren because children who were born between a sea dweller and land dweller can't live in the sea.
** Not to mention how in two instances children run away from their respective homes.
* AlliterativeName: Manaka Mukaido.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: All of the sea dwellers' classmates in Mihama Middle School ignore them, except Tsumugu. [[spoiler:Until Episode 4.]]
** This could be because of the fact they are sea people, or Hikari's HairTriggerTemper.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Kaname likes Chisaki who likes Hikari who likes Manaka who likes Tsumugu who [[TheStoic is completely unreadable]]. [[spoiler:Until Episode 14 where it is revealed that Tsumugu is in love with Chisaki.]]
** Also, Miuna and Sayu both have {{Precocious Crush}}es on Hikari and Kaname, respectively.
** After the [[spoiler:TimeSkip, we now have Miuna who likes Hikari who still likes Manaka. Sayu who likes Kaname who still likes Chisaki who still has some sort of feelings for Hikari, and Tsumugu who has developed feelings for Chisaki, who seems to also have feelings towards him. Adding to the awkwardness, Hikari and Kaname are now several years younger than Chisaki, on the other hand Miuna and Sayu [[SheIsAllGrownUp have grown to the same age as their respective crushes]] but said crushes still think of them as kids, and Miuna is Hikari's niece, although they're [[NotBloodSiblings not related by blood.]] Towards the end, even ''Akira'' gets into the act.]]
** [[spoiler: An unusual version with Tsumugu and Chisaki. Their love is mutual but both believe that it is one-sided on their part and thus have not declared them to each other. Tsumugu is aware that Chisaki still has some feelings for Hikari and fears that she would reject him if he confessed. Apart from Chisaki still being hung up on Hikari, she also seems unaware of her own feelings for Tsumugu. Episode 23 becomes the turning point as Tsumugu (accidentally) confesses his love to Chisaki and she returns these affections but is too scared and guilty to accept them as she believes it would "betray her friends".]]
** Averted in the end. [[spoiler:Everyone pairs off except Akira (who's way too young for this stuff anyway) and Miuna. Though in the latter's case, Minegishi, the boy who had confessed to her earlier has far from given up.]]
* AlternateHistory: Humanity used to live in the sea before most of them moved to the dry land, which was opposite of our world history. It's possible(and implied) that the land people have the opposite legend.
* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: The sea people look exactly like land people, except for the ''ena'' that covers their skin. It has to be regularly soaked in sea water or it dries out painfully.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: The salt flake "snow" in particular. If the water was salty enough that it was precipitating out like it is shown to is if the water was saturated with salt(i.e. unable to dissolve any more). In this case, most of the sea life would be dead as the water would basically be brine. Also, the only way it could keep falling and accumulating like it does is if salt was continually added at the surface. In this environment tears would actually be less dense than the water and would float upward(if they somehow held togther).
* BetaCouple: [[spoiler:Chisaki and Tsumugu]]. They would have almost qualified as a CrackPairing early in the show, but it's completely justified by the time it happens, it has a strong development and actually gets confirmed ''before'' the primary couple.
* BlessedWithSuck and then [[BlessedWithSuck Uncursed With Suck]]: Manaka hates her curse at first but later she seems to feel this way after the fish stuck to her knee swims off. She actually ''begs'' to be cursed again because she's afraid that Tsumugu might not want to speak to her if they don't have ''that'' to talk about.
* ChildhoodFriends: Manaka, Hikari, Chisaki and Kaname.
** ChildhoodFriendRomance: What Hikari would like with Manaka but so far he is the UnluckyChildhoodFriend. And seemingly what [[DoggedNiceGuy Kaname]] would also want with Chisaki.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* CryCute: At first this trope only seems to apply to Manaka... But ''[[ComingOfAgeStory everyone]]'' ends up crying at some point.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Manaka.
* DeepSleep: [[spoiler:Everyone from Shioshishio except Chisaki, Akari, and Isamu, Tsumugu's grandfather, by the end of Episode 13.]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler:Manaka several times after she wakes from hibernation. Later revealed to signify the fact she can no longer feel love.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* TheExile: The fate of a sea dweller if they marry a land dweller.
* EvolvingCredits: The ending credit sequence has a few subtle changes (i.e removing the desaturation and the fading edge effects) after the end of Episode 20 [[spoiler:to symbolize the fact that Manaka woke up.]] In the opening credits sequence in the episode after adds new scenes [[spoiler:with Manaka]] and expands on the existing ones [[spoiler:such as the pan out to reveal that it is Manaka who catches the umbrella at the end of the sequence.]]
* FakeHigh: One of the later episodes has Chisaki wanting to drink plum wine, despite Tsumugu pointing out that she's still a minor. Pretending to help her find it, he grabs for the non-alcoholic plum juice. Chisaki acts drunk regardless, unaware of the switch.
* FantasticRacism: Between the sea dwellers and land dwellers. The sea-people encourage this partly because the offspring of one of them and a normal human can't breathe underwater, so too many sea-people marrying land-dwellers would make it hard to maintain their population. The fact that Hikari and the others seem to be the only four kids in their class/age group is probably telling.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Hikari's father pointed out that Ojoshi-sama's robe was folded wrong, which made Manaka cry out that it's gonna die. Sure enough, the wooden figure was broken later.
** This makes it HarsherInHindsight as the previous attempt's robe would most likely have been folded wrong as well, and that one was also destroyed.
** Uroko-sama once said he was the scale of Sea God who [[spoiler:fell in love with a human girl.]]
** [[spoiler:One of the first hints that something is wrong with Manaka is that she shows no interest in seeing Tsumugu, the boy she had feelings for before her HeroicSacrifice. As it turns out, Manaka gave away her ability to love and as such doesn't feel anything for Tsumugu, or Hikari, anymore.]]
** A particular poster released months before the show started airing positions the characters in such a way that it slightly alludes to their fates. [[spoiler:Tsumugu and Chisaki are located at the top together to hint that they would remain on the surface and become a couple whereas Hikari, Manaka and Kaname are located at the bottom to show that they would enter hibernation.]]
* FreakinessShame: Downplayed version but Tsumugu likes both Manaka's scales and her curse ([[ItMakesSenseInContext a fish that is stuck to her knee]]).
* GenderBlenderName: The male lead first name is Hikari, which is usually used as a girl's name.
** FamilyThemeNaming: Akari, Hikari's older sister, and Hikari's names both mean light.
* GreenEyedMonster: Hikari is very obnoxious towards Tsumugu because he's jealous of Manaka's attraction to him.
** [[spoiler:Kaname also starts to show signs of this towards Tsumugu when Chisaki starts becoming closer to him.]]
* HairDecorations: Manaka has small white decorations that resemble gills, and Chisaki has her hair tied in a white ribbon.
* HappilyMarried: Itaru, until his wife's death. The same can be applied for Tomoru, Hikari's father. [[spoiler:Now Itaru and Akari are happily married with a son.]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: Hikari towards Manaka. Hikari, who is also a redhead, has Chisaki and [[PrecociousCrush Miuna]] pining for him as well.
* IdiotBall:
** [[spoiler:Itaru never realizes that any sea person who marries with a land person will be banished from village. This means he also never realized that his late wife was banished from the village when he married her.]]
** What made Akari think that [[spoiler:offering herself as a sacrifice in the Ofuheneki's place]] was a bright idea?
* InsultedAwake: A week after being retrieved, [[spoiler:Manaka finally wakes up... to yell at Hikari for getting so angry at Miuna.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Expressed several times in the series. [[spoiler:Surprisingly, a good percent of the time, the expresser is ''wrong'' about where their beloved's feelings lie.]]
** A particular heartbreaking example is what happened between the Sea God and the original Ojoshi-sama.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Fuyuka Oura voices the mother of a character voiced by Creator/AiKayano (Chisaki) much like she did in ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay''.
* KissOfLife: [[spoiler:Post-timeskip Miuna]] does this to Hikari after he [[spoiler:mysteriously reappears on land, still hibernating.]] Tsumugu [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that he can't exactly drown, since he lives underwater, and Hikari wakes up on his own moments later.
* LoveDodecahedron: Kaname likes Chisaki, who likes Hikari. Hikari on the other hand, likes Manaka, who has feelings for Tsumugu. Tsumugu's feelings are ambiguous at the moment.
** Miuna and Sayu [[PrecociousCrush like]] Hikari and Kaname respectively. And Tsumugu ends up developing feelings for [[spoiler:Chisaki. It is ''strongly'' implied that she loves him too but they have not declared their feelings to each other, until Episode 23 where Tsumugu accidentally confesses to her.]]
* LoveHurts: As demonstrated by the other love-related tropes on the page, this is a major point of the series. However, a major moral is that this pain is an integral part of love and cannot be ignored or denied, but must be accepted along with the good.
* MagicSkirt: They are underwater most of the time, for God's sake. Or do they have weights on their clothes to keep it from being buoyant?
* MeaningfulName: Akari and Hikari's names both mean light, however it gets a bit deeper than that. ''Akari'' refers to the light that shines on its own, like the Sun[[hottip:Note: And it is when she goes off on her own that she truly beings to shine]]. ''Hikari'' refers to light that is reflected by other, such as the Moon[[hottip:Note: As he gathers his friends and behind him and discovers his own leadership qualities, he also begins to shine]].
* MissingMom: Hikari and Akari's mother died [[DeathByOriginStory before the story starts]]. Also, Miuna's mother Miori.
* MoodLighting: Applied in the second ending credits sequence. Initially, it is given a fog-like effect, with mist bordering the screen and washed-out colors to minimize the sunlight effects, reflecting the second half of the show's somber atmosphere. [[spoiler: When Manaka wakes up from her sleep, the credits sequence changes to reflect this and the uplifting turn in the plot; the fog is gone and the color palette returns to what's standard for the show, allowing more vivid colors and more noticeable sunlight.]]
* NewTransferStudent: Four of the main characters from the sea in Episode 1.
* NiceGuy: As much as it is killing Hikari, Tsumugu is definitely this.
* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: [=NagiAsu=].
* OfficialCouple: The first pair to officialy get together are [[spoiler: Akari and Itaru]], who marry at the end of the first part. Out of the main characters [[spoiler:Tsumugu/Chisaki is the only confirmed couple. Hikari/Manaka is heavily implied, Kaname/Sayu is strongly hinted at and Minegeshi/Miuna is teased at.]]
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent
** ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: They look completely human, only with a scale-like layer that absorbs and holds moisture and peels if they stay out of water too long. They're also given a slight bluish tint compared to surface people.
* [[PeopleOfHairColor People Of Eye Color]]: The sea dwellers all have bright blue-green eyes, including their eyelashes.
** OccultBlueEyes
* PairTheSpares: In a roundabout fashion. [[spoiler:After the TimeSkip Sayu confesses to Kaname, who while he can't requite her feelings yet he promises that he'll start looking at her, at the end it's strongly hinted that they may start going out together soon.]]
* PrecociousCrush: Miuna and Sayo on Hikari and Kaname respectively before the time skip. They keep those feelings afterwards, [[spoiler:but by then, the age gap has disappeared.]] In the second half, four-year-old Akira gets one on [[spoiler:Manaka.]]
* [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Pretty Fly For A Dry Guy]]: Tsumugu shows a strong interest in how merpeople live. Mostly curiosity from having sailed over their town so much. [[spoiler: Although his grandfather was from the sea.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: [[FieryRedHead Hikari]] and [[TheStoic Tsumugu]]. Hikari and Kaname also count, as do Manaka and Chisaki.
** Sayu and Miuna, too.
* TheRunaway:
** Miuna in Episode 5.
** Hikari and Akari in Episode 7.
* SceneryPorn: As expected from Creator/PAWorks, the backgroud was beautiful and detailed [[Anime/AngelBeats as]] [[Anime/HanasakuIroha usu]][[Anime/TariTari al]]. Just watch the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAc9KKUMTAc trailer]].
* SecondLove: As this is a ComingOfAgeStory letting go and moving on are major themes, so several characters find their second loves. Such as [[spoiler: Itaru, Chisaki, Kaname who is also strongly hinted to and even the original Ojoshi-sama found her second love in the Sea God.]]
* ShipSinking: In an interesting display of {{Foreshadowing}}, [[spoiler: after rescuing Tsumugu with Chisaki in [[WhamEpisode Episode 13]], a wave [[VisualPun throws Kaname off the ship]], leaving Chisaki cradling Tsumugu.]]
* ShipTease: All over the place due to the LoveDodecahedron being one of the show's main focuses.
* SpoilerOpening: [[spoiler:The ending has Manaka drifting lifelessly towards the bottom of the ocean, then shows her sitting motionless on the seabed, covered in saltflake snow. [[KilledOffForReal This implies exactly what it appears to.]]]]
** The first Opening has our protagonists spending time together, there's some foreshadowing in some scenes such as [[spoiler: when they are all on the train only Tsumugu, Chisaki, Hikari and Kaname are together speaking and interacting with each other, while Manaka is by ''herself'' on another seat ''sleeping''...]]
** Opening 2 spoils the fact that [[spoiler: everyone on the surface has gotten older, and apparently Kaname didn't get killed by the huge pillar that gave out and fell into the sea.]]
*** [[spoiler: Careful analysis of the opening will reveal some of the character's romantic interests - Sayu is looking at Kaname, Kaname is looking at Chisaki, Tsumugu is looking at Chisaki, Chisaki is looking at Hikari, Hikari is looking at the sea (for Manaka). The exception - Miuna is looking toward the ground because she is unsure of her feelings (Hikari is also her uncle now).]]
**** [[EvolvingCredits After Episode 20]], [[spoiler: Manaka and Miuna in their Ofunehiki uniforms look at each other while in the sea, carrying and releasing the sacred fire. This foreshadows a scene in Episode 25 in which Miuna attempts to save Manaka from dying.]]
*** [[spoiler: When all the characters are walking, Chisaki and Tsumugu are shown close together, with Kaname and Sayu following behind also close together.]]
*** [[spoiler:At the end of the opening (pre-EvolvingCredits), the necklace that contains Manaka's feelings is visible hanging off of the flagpole.]]
* TheStoic: Tsumugu.
** NotSoStoic: Can be expressive when needed. [[spoiler:He tends to hide his melancholy beneath a mask of stoicism. It kills him to bottle up his feelings about his troubled relationship with his mother, friends all falling into a deep sleep, grandfather falling ill and inability to confess his love for Chisaki.]]
* TimeSkip: [[spoiler:The second arc takes place five years after the Ofunehiki. The sea has frozen over, Manaka, Hikari and Kaname have vanished, Akari has a son, and Chisaki has been stranded on the surface and is living with Tsumugu. The plot kicks back up when Hikari is found, having not aged a day.]]
* TransferStudentUniforms: The merkids keep wearing their old school uniform when they transfer, as a symbol of how they're different from normal humans.
* TrueLovesKiss: Played with but ultimately subverted. [[spoiler:Miuna suggests that Hikari can kiss Manaka to awaken from her hibernation, but due to the way Miuna words it, Hikari thinks Miuna's talking about herself as the intended subject; their bickering over the idea is what rustles Manaka awake.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Hikari as a male example. He is always harsh towards Manaka but only because he loves her and is going through a great deal of jealousy at her pining for another man. Not just any man but a normal human. At first.
* TwoTeacherSchool
* UnderwaterCity: Shioshishio is a small town underwater.
* VaguenessIsComing: Episode 5 implies that an unspecified disaster tangentially related to the "saltflake snow" will occur soon.
** Then, come Episode 8, [[spoiler:saltflake snow, a phenomenon that was supposed to occur only in the sea, occurred on the ''land''.]]
* WaterIsAir: Zig-zagged. People walk and talk and live underwater exactly as if they're on land (just with the odd fish swimming about), except they occasionally start swimming, and they can swim to/from the surface. They have fire underwater, but it's special "holy fire." You can cry underwater also.
* WhamEpisode: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Episode! Thirteen!]] [[spoiler:The main heroine sacrifices herself, two of the male protagonists are missing in action, the supporting female protagonist is traumatized by the fact that most of her best friends may have just died, and the third male protagnonist is unconscious after almost drowning.]] The first twelve episodes were completely kid-friendly SliceOfLife...
** Episode 25, too. If learning that [[spoiler: Manaka was actually in love with Hikari all along]] wasn't enough, then [[spoiler: ''Miuna'', in a sudden turn of events, seemingly being taken as the new sacrifice to the sea god]] definitely was.
* YeahShot: The final scene in the first opening credits sequence, with the five kids leaping toward the ocean.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Chisaki, her mother and also Miori, Miuna's mother.
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Creator/NISAmerica has the series licensed in North America under the MarkedBasedTitle ''A Lull in the Sea'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-10/nagi-no-asukara-a-lull-in-the-sea-gets-english-dub/.85819 and it will be dubbed into English]], making it the 2nd [=NISA=] title to contain an all-new English dub (after ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'').

NISAmerica has the series licensed in North America, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-10/nagi-no-asukara-a-lull-in-the-sea-gets-english-dub/.85819 and it will be dubbed into English]], making it the 2nd [=NISA=] title to contain an all-new English dub (after ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'').

''Nagi no Asukara'' (凪のあすから) (''From The Calm Tomorrow'') is a Fall2013Anime television series produced by Creator/PAWorks.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Fuyuka Oura voices the mother of a character voiced by Creator/AiKayano (Chisaki) much like she did in ''Anime/{{Anohana}}''.

* LoveHurts: As demonstrated by the other love-related tropes on the page, this is a major point of the series.

* LoveDodecahedron: Kaname likes Chisaki, who likes Hikari. Hikari on the other hand, likes Manaka, who has feeling for Tsumugu. Tsumugu's feelings are ambiguous at the moment.

** After the [[spoiler:TimeSkip, we now have Miuna who likes Hikari who still likes Manaka. Sayu who likes Kaname who still likes Chisaki who still has some sort of feelings for Hikari, and Tsumugu who has developed feelings for Chisaki, who seems to also have feelings towards him. Adding to the awkwardness, Hikari and Kaname are now several years younger than Chisaki, on the other hand Miuna and Sayu [[SheIsAllGrownUp have grown to the same age as their respective crushes]] but said crushes still think of them as kids, and Miuna is Hikari's niece, although they're [[NotBloodSiblings not related by blood.]] Towards the end, even ''Akira'' gets into the act.]]

* OfficialCouple: The first pair to officialy get together are [[spoiler: Akari and Itaru]], who marry at the end of the first part. Out of the main characters [[spoiler:Tsumugu/Chisaki is the only confirmed couple. Hikari/Manaka is heavily implied, Kaname/Sayu is hinted at and Minegeshi/Miuna is teased at.]]

* PairTheSpares: In a roundabout fashion. [[spoiler:Chisaki and Tsumugu--who liked Hikari and seemingly liked Manaka, respectively--get together because Hikari and Manaka become an item.]] They would have almost qualified as a CrackPairing early in the show, but it's completely justified by the time it happens and actually gets confirmed ''before'' the primary couple.

''Nagi no Asukara'' (凪のあすから) (''From The Calm Tomorrow'') is an ongoing Fall2013Anime television series produced by Creator/PAWorks.

* OfficialCouple: The first pair to officialy get together are [[spoiler: Akari and Itaru]], who marry at the end of the first part. Out of the main characters [[spoiler:TsumuguxChisaki is the only confirmed couple. HikarixManaka is heavily implied, KanamexSayu is hinted at and MinegeshixMiuna is teased at.]]

* SecondLove: As this is a ComingOfAgeStory, letting go and moving on are major themes...

** [[spoiler: An unusual version with Tsumugu and Chisaki. Their love is mutual but both believe that it is one-sided on their part and thus have not declared them to each other. Tsumugu is aware that Chisaki still has feelings for Hikari and fears that she would reject him if he confessed. Apart from Chisaki still being hung up on Hikari, she is also unaware of her feelings for Tsumugu. Episode 23 becomes the turning point as Tsumugu (accidentally) confesses his love to Chisaki and she returns these affections but is too scared and guilty to accept them as she believes it would "betray her friends".]]

** [[spoiler:Averted in the end. Most everyone pairs off except Akira (who's way too young for this stuff anyway) and Miuna. Though in the latter's case, the boy who had tried to confess to her earlier has far from given up.]]

** ChildhoodFriendRomance: What Hikari would like with Manaka but so far he is the UnluckyChildhoodFriend.
*** [[spoiler:And also what Kaname would also want with Chisaki.]]

* CryCute: Manaka.

* DeepSleep: [[spoiler:Everyone from Shioshishio except Chisaki, Akari, and Tsumugu's grandfather by the end of Episode 13.]]

* HappilyMarried: Itaru, until his wife's death. The same can be applied for Tomori, Hikari's father. [[spoiler:Now Itaru and Akari are happily married with a son.]]

** Miuna and Sayu [[PrecociousCrush like]] Hikari and Kaname respectively. And Tsumugu ends up developing feelings for [[spoiler:Chisaki. It is implied that she loves him too but they have not declared their feelings to each other, until Episode 23 where Tsumugu accidentally confesses to her.]]

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Tsumugu/Chisaki is the only confirmed OfficialCouple out of the main characters. Hikari/Manaka is heavily implied, Kaname/Sayu is hinted at and Kiyoshi/Miuna is teased at]]

* SceneryPorn: As expected from Creator/PAWorks, the backgroud was beautiful and detailed [[Anime/AngelBeats as]] [[Anime/HanasakuIroha usu]][[Anime/TariTari al]]. Just watch the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAc9KKUMTAc trailer]].

** [[spoiler: Hikari and Akari]] in Episode 7.

** The first Opening has our protagonists spending time together, there's some foreshadowing in some scenes such as [[spoiler: when they are on the train and Tsumugu, Chisaki, Hikari and Kaname are all together speaking and interacting with each other, while Manaka is by ''herself'' on another seat ''sleeping''...]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Chisaki, her mother and Miuna's mother Miori.

*** [[spoiler:At the end of the opening (pre-EvolvingCredits and Manaka's awakening), the necklace that contains Manaka's feelings is visible hanging off of the flagpole.]]

*** [[spoiler:At the end of the opening, the necklace that contains Manaka's feelings is visible hanging off of the flag.]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: Hikari certainly does towards Manaka. Hikari, who is also a redhead, has Chisaki pining for him and little [[PrecociousCrush Miuna]] seems to like him as well.

* PrecociousCrush: Miuna and Sayo on Hikari and Kaname respectively before the time skip. They keep those feelings afterwards, [[spoiler: but the age gap has disappeared]]. In the second half, four-year-old Akira gets one on Kanaka

** Then, come Episode 8, [[spoiler: saltflake snow, a phenomenon that was supposed to occur only in the sea, occurred on the ''land'']].

* InsultedAwake: A week after being retrieved, [[spoiler:Manaka finally wakes up... to yell at Hikari for getting so angry at Manaka.]]