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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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