History Manga / WaGaNaWaUmishi

%%* TheChick: Hiro

%%* WouldHitAGirl: Sawa to Hiro.

%%* GrumpyBear: Sawamura just lives to grumble.

* BathtubBonding: Averted by Hiro who makes it clear she has no intention of getting friendly with Maaya.
* BadassBureaucrat: Chief Kasai.
* {{Beergasm}}: Nanba Salvage sure like their beer!
* BestBeerEver: Used frequently. Very frequently.
* {{Blackmail}}: Possibly. Sawa seems to have something on Eguchi

* ChildhoodFriends: Rin and Maaya

* DefrostingIceQueen: Hiro. Became especially friendly after a rival showed up.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Used inconsistently and unconvincingly with Hiro.
* {{Engrish}}: The "official" English title is "Master of Sea"

* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Maaya, to Rin.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Slapping Hiro doesn't particularly calm her down.
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: Comes with the territory, but the rogue waves from the Haneda arc are particularly terrifying.
* GrumpyBear: Sawamura just lives to grumble.

* {{Jerkass}}: Eguchi, Sawamura sometimes.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sawamura

* LoanShark: Nichiyou Bank

* NewOldFlame: For Maaya. Rin never liked her that way.
* NobodyPoops: Averted by Gramps, played straight by everyone else.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Sawa leaves his fling just so he can go home and watch TV
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The coast guard appears to be populated largely by these.
* PantyShot: Hiro apparently sleeps in her underwear.
* ParentalAbandonment: Both inverted and played straight.

* RedOniBlueOni: Rintarou and Sawamura
* RefusalOfTheCall: Rintarou's initial reaction when his father gives him the salvage business in his will.
* RescueArc: Basically the point of the whole series, but the object to be rescued is rarely human.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Maaya-chan after 10 years or so
* ShownTheirWork: It's overkill sometimes.

* SmugSnake: Eguchi
* SourSupporter: Sawamura is a textbook example. It's a mystery why he still works for Rin with his world-class skills.
* SpyShip: Disguised as a fishing boat. Allegedly from North Korea.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Hiro is a textbook example
* TeamMom: Gramps
* TheChick: Hiro
* WeWait: Rin gets this from the veteran salvors during the first major arc.

* RapunzelHair: Hiro. Highly impractical given the nature of her job.

A seinen manga about the rarely-explored world of modern marine salvage, the ups and downs, the long periods of waiting and the brief flashes of action. The authors did a lot of research for this manga, and it shows.
Written by the team of Yoichi Komori and Yuji Takemura, this series ran from 2004-2007 in Big Comic Spirits and was compiled into 15 volumes.

* AintTooProudToBeg - Coast Guard chief Kasai isn't too proud to beg fishermen for a favor.
* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks - Nanba Salvage owes a bank a whopping $14 million. It is still not clear exactly what they used the money on.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis - Eguchi can usually pinpoint exactly where something sank without ever going to the scene.
* AnimeHair - Rintarou's spiky do is only barely affected by water.
* BadassGrandpa - Leave the piloting to Gramps.
* BathtubBonding - Averted by Hiro who makes it clear she has no intention of getting friendly with Maaya.
* BadassBureaucrat - Chief Kasai.
* {{Beergasm}} - Nanba Salvage sure like their beer!
* BestBeerEver - Used frequently. Very frequently.
* {{Blackmail}} - Possibly. Sawa seems to have something on Eguchi
* BlindIdiotTranslation - Usually good, but "Kaizai" turned into "Kasai" and "Narita Airport" became "Haneda Airport" halfway through.
* CantHoldHisLiquor - Rin is the biggest lightweight in the series (Hiro and Eguchi have the strongest stomachs).
* ChildhoodFriends - Rin and Maaya
* DamselInDistress - Maaya in the LPG arc. In distress largely by choice.
* DefrostingIceQueen - Hiro. Became especially friendly after a rival showed up.
* DoesNotLikeMen - Used inconsistently and unconvincingly with Hiro.
* {{Engrish}} - The "official" English title is "Master of Sea"
* EvilDebtCollector - The supremely slimy Saitou Hajime of Nichiyou Bank. Takes special delight in reminding Nanba Salvage that they will soon go bankrupt.
* FanDisservice - YMMV, but I did not need to see Sawa half-naked
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend - Maaya, to Rin.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan - Slapping Hiro doesn't particularly calm her down.
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom - Comes with the territory, but the rogue waves from the Haneda arc are particularly terrifying.
* GrumpyBear - Sawamura just lives to grumble.
* HiddenEyes - Rintarou does this often, usually right before making a cool/meaningful pronouncement.
* {{Jerkass}} - Eguchi, Sawamura sometimes.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Sawamura
* JumpedAtTheCall - What Rintarou does for most salvage cases, in many cases literally when a phone call comes in
* LeastIsFirst - Inexperienced Rin (and understaffed Nanba Salvage) have jumped at many jobs that better salvage companies have turned down, usually with good reason.
* LoanShark - Nichiyou Bank
* MomentKiller - Eguchi steps in right before Maaya can tell Rin how she feels.
* MsFanservice - Hiro. She rides out typhoons in a bikini top! She does yoga naked!
* NewOldFlame - For Maaya. Rin never liked her that way.
* NobodyPoops - Averted by Gramps, played straight by everyone else.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy - Sawa leaves his fling just so he can go home and watch TV
* ObstructiveBureaucrat - The UsefulNotes/CoastGuard appears to be populated largely by these.
* PantyShot - Hiro apparently sleeps in her underwear.
* ParentalAbandonment - Both inverted and played straight.
* PlotBasedPhotographObfuscation - Used once to cover Rin's father's face.
* RaceAgainstTheClock - Most arcs involve racing to finish a job some arbitrary deadline hits (tide rising, storm hitting, dawn breaking, etc)
* RammingAlwaysWorks - Nanba Salvage rams their ship into a crane ship to keep it aground during a major typhoon.
* RapunzelHair - Hiro. Highly impractical given the nature of her job.
* RedOniBlueOni - Rintarou and Sawamura
* RefusalOfTheCall - Rintarou's initial reaction when his father gives him the salvage business in his will.
* RescueArc - Basically the point of the whole series, but the object to be rescued is rarely human.
* SayMyName - Less often than you might expect, except for Gramps going "Bon!".
* SheIsAllGrownUp - Maaya-chan after 10 years or so
* ShownTheirWork - It's overkill sometimes.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids - Sawamura often calls Rin out on his idealism, but goes along with him anyway.
* SmugSnake - Eguchi
* SourSupporter - Sawamura is a textbook example. It's a mystery why he still works for Rin with his world-class skills.
* SpyShip - Disguised as a fishing boat. Allegedly from North Korea.
* StylisticSuck - Random dots and splashes on the artwork. After 10 volumes it's probably not a scanning error.
* SugarAndIcePersonality - Hiro is a textbook example
* TeamMom - Gramps
* TheChick - Hiro
* WeWait - Rin gets this from the veteran salvors during the first major arc.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight - Rin passes out drunk after drinking with Gramps and wakes up to find his fly unzipped. Cue panic
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse - In the first chapter Nanba Salvage owes the yakuza money. After that, somehow they owe the Nichijou Bank money and the yakuza are never mentioned again.
* WouldHitAGirl - Sawa to Hiro. YMMV on how much she was asking for it.

* {{Kuudere}} - Hiro is a textbook example

* WorldWarII - One of the arcs involve raising a plane downed in WWII.

* NorthKorea - The latest arc has the Coast Guard chasing a North Korean boat

* ObstructiveBureaucrat - The CoastGuard appears to be populated largely by these.

* CoastGuard - The Japanese CoastGuard features prominently, and Rintarou was a former CG diver.

* NightmareFuel - Hundreds of cars 90 degrees up and 50 feet underwater. Creepy as heck.

* {{Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation}} - Used once to cover Rin's father's face.