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3	''Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho'' -- the title translates to "''Healthy Naked Swimming Team Umisho''", which, besides being a WordSaladTitle, is a more than apt description of the show. ''Umisho'' is a SportsStory that revolves around the Umineko Shougyou Swimming Club and their highly unusual teammates as they make their way to the top of the tournaments and engage in wacky DayInTheLife moments in between.
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5	Kaname Okiura ("Okky" to some) is the manager of the Umisho swimming team, except that he can't actually swim. The team is in need of members, and that's when newcomer Amuro Ninagawa and her floating house pulls up to shore. Amuro has a hobby for nude swimming, and turns out to be quite proficient at it, having lived her whole life on the sea. She joins the swimming club, and things start from there.
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7	The manga was serialized in ''[[Magazine/ShonenMagazine Weekly Shonen Magazine]]'' from 2005 to 2008, and compiled into nine volumes. A thirteen-episode anime adaptation aired in 2007.
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9	!!''Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho'' provides examples of the following tropes:
10	* ACupAngst: Makio and Maaya have a big complex over their small chests compared to the other girls.
11	* AlphaBitch: Karena Nanjou, the captain of the rival team. In her first appearance, she even has a GirlPosse accompanying her.
12	%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Riru to Amuro.
13	* AuthorityInNameOnly: Ikamasa is supposed to be the captain of the team, but Orizuka is clearly the one in charge despite being only vice-captain, to point where she bosses him around as much as anyone else. Though, this could be because Ikamasa doesn't take his duties seriously, while Orizuka does.
14	* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: The epilogue shows Kaname and Amuro with a toddler son. Considering how the time skip only spanned five years, Amuro should have gotten pregnant before she turned 18.]]
15	* BarbieDollAnatomy:
16	** Plenty of nudity, no sign of nipples (even when they're supposed to show), body hair or other anatomical details.
17	** Averted during the hot spring chapter, where is openly stated that everyone (minus Makio) have body hair and the girls even make a bet where the losers will have to shave their pubes.
18	* BeachEpisode: Or rather, beach scenes in several episodes. Including the first episode, when Amuro's house arrives at the beach.
19	* BlandNameProduct: Googre. Also potentially {{lampshaded}} [[GratuitousEnglish Engrish]].
20	* BlueWithShock
21	* CaptainErsatz: Maaya, of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka Langley]].
22	* {{Catchphrase}}: "You Dumbass!" seems to be Ikamasa's. Though being, well, ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ikamasa]]'', he usually delivers it for relatively minor offenses, if they even are offenses to average person.
23	%%* CensorSteam
24	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: The last volume of Umisho, which didn't get adapted reveals that Kaname & Amuro -- the OfficialCouple -- did meet each other once during their childhood.
25	* ClingyJealousGirl: Maaya towards Kaname. Amuro herself too in response to Maaya.
26	* CovertPervert: Shizuoka, and how...
27	** In the manga, it runs in the family. Okiura finds ''both'' of her parents in a HadakaApron at one point, and they're also apparently in the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom.
28	** The manga also shows Shizuoka being WAY bolder and perverted, at the point of turning her obsession for Kaname's penis (don't ask...) into a running gag. The final volume shows her actively trying to feed him an aphrodisiac laced chocolate to have her way with him!
29	* CreepyCrossdresser:
30	** The Club Captain has rather disturbing inclination to wear female swimsuits and drop his pants at the slightest provocation. He also has a thing for shaving anyone and everyone...
31	** Amuro's brother as well, as he loves to dress like a girl just for the sake of being a pest.
32	* CuteLittleFangs: Maaya Nanako.
33	* {{Ecchi}}[=/=]{{Fanservice}}: Tons of it. Shizuoka's rear is fanservicey enough to break a camera.
34	* EvilRedhead: Maaya only brings back bad memories for Kaname.
35	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Okiura. Admittedly, they are gay, but gay guys are guys nonetheless.
36	* {{Eyecatch}}: Specialized to each episode.
37	* FanDisservice: Ikamasa, even in the OP. Everyone in the swim club finds him fan-disservicey too as he wears speedos all the time, likes to show off his speedos, has a custom speedo with his own face on the front that he likes to show off by putting his custom speedo's face in everyone else's face, takes his speedos off at the slightest provocation (sometimes so he can put on girls' swimsuits) and gets entirely too excited about shaving anyone and everyone, which he will also try to do with the slightest provocation (and he apparently keeps his razor in his speedos). However, it all [[RefugeInAudacity manages to be so hilarious]] that it almost doesn't count as FanDisservice.
38	* FatAndProud: Ikamasa gets horribly fat after graduating high school and leaving the swimming club, but he couldn't care less. Later he recovers his original athletic bulid, though...
39	* FestivalEpisode
40	* GenkiGirl: Amuro; Makio
41	* {{Gonk}}: Takeda' head looks like a hybrid between an onigiri, a daruma doll, and a shark.
42	* HandBehindHead: Amuro does this quite often.
43	* HotForStudent: If Sanae is to believed.
44	* HotSpringsEpisode
45	* IdiotHair: Makio
46	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Amuro, who thinks nothing of using the garden hose at Kaname's house as an impromptu shower or inviting Momoko to swim in the buff with her.
47	* InnocentInnuendo
48	* JapaneseSchoolClub
49	* LovableSexManiac: Shizuoka, especially in the manga, where her fantasies and antics keep her on the verge of ''orgasming'' more than once.
50	* MarshmallowHell
51	* MushroomSamba: With actual mushrooms. Momoko ends up stripping and jumping in the pool after ingesting one. It's a TV-friendly change made in the anime, because in the manga, it was sake mistaken for water and used for sports drink... by Amuro.
52	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Ikamasa's obsession with Speedos and indifference towards casual nudity is certainly PlayedForLaughs. It helps that he has elements of {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
53	** Amuro tends to be rather comedic in this manner, particularly when she chooses to invite Kaname for a swim with her while she's skinny dipping.
54	* NewTransferStudent
55	** Amuro
56	** And later on Maaya Nanako.
57	* OfficialCouple
58	** Kaname & Amuro
59	** Though in the manga, [[ShipTease he seems to be getting close to Shizuoka as well]]...
60	* {{Ojou}}: Shizuoka.
61	* OlderThanTheyLook: Makio is supposed to be in high school, but looks much younger than she is.
62	* OpposingSportsTeam: Shinomiya being the main one.
63	* ParentalAbandonment: For some reason, Amuro and her hippie father have left behind her mother and a bunch of younger siblings in Okinawa in order to live in a flimsy houseboat near the Umisho school. Kaname apparently only has a mother, and, aside from the Captain's father, no other parents are ever seen.
64	* PottyDance: Orizuka does this at the end of Chapter 46, hands and all.
65	* PottyEmergency: To various characters in Chapter 46, while on the bus ride. [[{{Irony}} Ironically,]] [[OnlySaneMan Orizuka]] ends up with one herself as they're ''leaving'' the rest stop. But don't worry, they had to go back and get an accidentally left-behind Amuro anyway.
66	* RagingStiffie: The manga occasionally shows Takeda's reaction to the {{Fanservice}} surrounding him.
67	* TheRashomon: Sanae and Momoko each give varying versions on how the Umisho team was formed.
68	* SacredFirstKiss: [[spoiler: Kaname's first is in the dark… by Amuro's crossdressing brother.]]
69	* {{Shorttank}}: Makio. [[spoiler: The epilogue shows how, five years later, Makio still looks like a kid despite being on her early twenties.]]
70	* ShoutOut: To ''Anime/CodeGeass'' and ''Manga/InitialD''.
71	* ShrinkingViolet: Shizuoka. Her father is also like this, suggesting she gets it from him.
72	* SkinnyDipping: Amuro enjoys doing this since she's always in the middle of the ocean. She even invites Kaname to join her in the ocean.
73	* SkinshipGrope: Yet another fine {{Fanservice}} moment (or twelve) brought to you by this series. Shizuoka is, by far, the most frequent victim/recipient.
74	* StraightGay: In the manga, Okiura ends up attracting one.
75	* TagTeamTwins: One of the rival teams is a group of quadruplets.
76	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Both literal and to the trope. The team of quadruplets can only swim at peak efficiency in tune with their school's anthem. Amuro, in the finale, is able to win when the show's theme tune guides her to victory.
77	* ThirdPersonPerson: Maaya Nanako
78	* TournamentArc: The Kantou tournament
79	* {{Tsundere}}: Momoko
80	* UnknownRival: Maaya, in regards to Amuro.
81	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Riru on everyone outside his family.]]
82	* VerbalTic: Takeda ends all his sentences in "da na".
83	* WardrobeMalfunction: At the prefectural tournament in episode 8, Momoko gets coerced into making a bet with Nanjou that the loser of the 100-meter freestyle has to have a "nip slip" in front of the crowd. After Momoko wins, she's [[UnsportsmanlikeGloating rubbing it in]] when [[LaserGuidedKarma the crotch of her swimsuit snaps]].
84	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The final manga chapter skips five years to the future to show us what happened to the original members of the swimming club. [[spoiler: Everyone get to follow a career or open their own business, except for Kaname, who (after being cured of his swimming fears) marries Amuro, and leaves to happily live as nomads on the sea with her and their little son.]]
85	* WholesomeCrossdresser: [[spoiler:Riru Ninagawa.]]

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