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2 | [[caption-width-right:222:[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative The one and only legendary sockeye romance!]]]] |
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4 | ''Crimsons -- The Scarlet Navigators of the Ocean'' (''Crimsons: Akai Koukaishatachi'') is a HotBlooded shounen adventure manga about fish by Kanno Takanori. |
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6 | Yes, fish. It's SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds. |
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8 | The protagonist is Shintarou, a feisty Sockeye Salmon whose school lives on the fringes of a freshwater lake. Life is tough in the shallows and food is scarce; the interior and its bounty are ruled by a tough and greedy gang of fish delinquents called "The Fearsome Fins". Remembering a rumour he heard when he was but a fry, Shintarou leads his school up-river to the ocean in search of a paradise to call their own. Shintarou grows into a brave and resourceful leader as he guides his school on their quest, fighting for survival against deadly predators such as sharks and whales. Along the way, they are studied by a marine biologist and his Canadian exchange student, Kris. She has a crush on her professor, who secretly reciprocates but must reject her advances to protect his career and reputation. |
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10 | Though the premise is unusual, it's surprisingly accessible and captivating, as the migratory life cycle of the Sockeye Salmon easily lends itself to such a narrative. [[ShownTheirWork Written under the editorial supervision]] of a professor of ichthyology at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, it contains a healthy dose of educational content about marine biology, though some artistic license is taken. |
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12 | The manga was serialized in ''Club Sunday'' from 2011 to 2012, and compiled into four volumes. |
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14 | Compare: ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin'' and ''ComicBook/ClanApis''. |
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16 | !!The manga provides examples of the following: |
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18 | * AnyoneCanDie To the point that in the last chapter it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:''[[EverybodyDiesEnding every]]'' character of the story so far had died. Even the human ones.]] |
19 | %%* BearsAreBadNews |
20 | %%* BittersweetEnding: The only thing saving it from being a DownerEnding is all the ham. |
21 | %%* ButNotTooForeign: Kris's father was Japanese. Turns out to be a plot point in her spinoff. |
22 | * CouchGag: Once a chapter, a daphnia gets to monologue, just to be killed shortly after finishing. |
23 | %%* TheDeadHaveNames: Commisar Georgii does this in response to Shintarou's accusations, demonstrating that he's really AFatherToHisMen. |
24 | %%* DoomedByCanon |
25 | %%* EdutainmentShow |
26 | %%* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Especially when you're a salmon. |
27 | * ForegoneConclusion: Those who know about the salmon life cycle know what's gonna happen once the salmon return to their birthplace. [[spoiler: Poor Yuuka and her dreams of having a family.]] |
28 | %%* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Takeshi, Orga, and Mishio.]] |
29 | * HopeSpot: After the school is stymied while trying to get back up the waterfall, Touya makes the jump! They're gonna make it! [[spoiler:And then, [[BearsAreBadNews bears]].]] |
30 | %%* HotBlooded: Shintarou, Takeshi and Touya, as well as Deniz. Ironically, fish are cold-blooded creatures. |
31 | %%* MundaneMadeAwesome: It's a manga about salmon migration. |
32 | %%* MsFanservice: Kris, from the perspective of the reader, and of her professor (and her mother, who thinks no one could resist her "assets". The webcam sequence is especially blatant. |
33 | * OncePerEpisode: Every chapter opens with a water flea [[ContemplateOurNavels waxing philosophical about life]], who is then almost always killed as the chapter begins proper; also, the Professor explains something about marine biology relevant to the chapter, and Kris makes a move on him. |
34 | * SpoiledByTheFormat: The cover of the manga spoils the "final form" of the characters (Sockeye), which appears only in the last part. The 4/5 portion of the story is mostly spent when they were still fry. |
35 | %%* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The blood-sucking lamprey eels. As terrifying as their land-borne undead counterparts. |
36 | * TimeSkip: After the school decides to [[spoiler: return to their home lake to raise the next generation]], two years pass. |
37 | * TwoLinesNoWaiting: There's an ongoing side story about the Canadian exchange student Kris and her attempts to [[TeacherStudentRomance romance her university instructor]], who usually says something that just happens to be related to what's currently happening to Shintaro's school. |
38 | %%* WorldOfHam |
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