List of Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea episodes
Cover of Volume 1 featuring main characters Hikari Sakishima (left) and Manaka Mukaido (right)
This is a list of episodes for Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea, known in Japan as Nagi no Asukara (凪のあすから, lit. From The Calm Tomorrow), a 2013–2014 Japanese anime television series produced by P.A.Works. The series centers on a group of seven friends: Hikari Sakishima, Manaka Mukaido, Chisaki Hiradaira, and Kaname Isaki, children from the sea; and Tsumugu Kihara, Miuna Shiodome, and Sayu Hisanuma, their new friends from the surface.
The anime series is produced by P.A.Works and directed by Toshiya Shinohara. The screenplay is written by Mari Okada and the original character designs are by Buriki.[1] It started airing on October 3, 2013. For episodes 1 to 13, the opening theme is "lull (Soshite Bokura wa)" (lull〜そして僕らは〜) by Ray and the ending theme is "Aqua Terrarium" (アクアテラリウム, Akua Terariumu) by Nagi Yanagi. For episode 14 to 25, the opening and ending themes are "Ebb and Flow" by Ray[2] and "Mitsuba no Musubi me" by Nagi Yanagi respectively.[3][4] The 26th and final episode has 2 insert songs: "lull ~Earth color of a calm~" and "mnemonic", sung by Ray and Yanagi, respectively.[5] NIS America acquired the home video and streaming rights to the anime.[6]
Episode list[]
| No. | Title | Original air date[7] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "In Between the Sea and the Land" Transcription: "Umi to Daichi no Mannaka ni" (Japanese: 海と大地のまんなかに) | October 3, 2013 | |
| Former students of Nami Junior High School, Hikari Sakishima, Chisaki Hiradaira, Kaname Isaki, and Manaka Mukaido are forced to attend a school on land called Mihama Junior High School. Hikari's short temper towards Manaka leads to a series of events that culminate in her being caught by Tsumugu Kihara, the grandson of a fisherman, who also attends Mihama Junior High. Introducing themselves on their first day, they are met with disgust for being sea people and Hikari bites back just as harshly. This is an early sign showing the rift between the land and sea people descendants of a sacrifice (Ofunehiki) to the sea god. After school Manaka and Hikari visit Uroko-sama, the sea god messenger. Manaka brings an offering and after Uroko-sama tries to seduce her, she hits him in the face and is cursed with a fish growing out of her knee the next day. After class, some of Manaka's classmates start to invasively question her whereupon she hits her knee attempting to escape causing a fart sound. Her classmates laugh as she runs away into the forest in embarrassment. Lost, Manaka collapses due to being out of the water for too long and her ena, skin that allows them to live in the sea, begins to dry and flake off. Hikari and the others go looking for her. Luckily Manaka is found by Tsumugu who brings her to his house to rehydrate her. Once awake, she immediately becomes embarrassed as Tsumugu has just seen the fish on her knee. To her surprise he thinks it and her ena are beautiful. Later that evening after searching all day, Hikari meets up with Manaka and Tsumugu and misunderstanding his role, tries to pick a fight with Tsumugu. Manaka intervenes, and Hikari angry at how she was comfortable around another guy, pulls her into the sea with him. | |||
| 2 | "The Chilly Desert" Transcription: "Hiyakkoi Usumaku" (Japanese: ひやっこい薄膜) | October 10, 2013 | |
| Manaka attempts to instigate another curse when her cursed fish departs to keep Tsumugu happy. Angry about Manaka's acts toward Tsumugu, Hikari verbally lashes out against her during school while Manaka attempts to balance her friendship with Hikari and her relationship with Tsumugu. Tsumugu, Manaka, Hikari, Chisaki, and Kaname all volunteer to make the offering for the Ofunehiki wherein they discuss Shioshishio and Tsumugu. As Manaka, Hikari, Chisaki, and Kaname leave for the day, they spot Akari kissing a man as she is dropped off at the pier. With relationships between sea people and land people on their mind, the four contemplate their individual concerns on the matter. The next day, Chisaki discovers Tsumugu is making a watering hole but wishes Tsumugu wasn't so nice. At Uroko's, Manaka begs to be cursed again being interrupted as elder men of the village dragged Akari to Uroko's place since due to her being involved with someone from the surface. Hikari and Manaka can only watch on as Tomori takes Akari to Uroko. | |||
| 3 | "The Tradition of the Sea" Transcription: "Umi no Iitsutae" (Japanese: 海のいいつたえ) | October 17, 2013 | |
| As Akari is scolded by her father for disobeying the village's rules, Hikari reminisces about how she always took care of him after their mother's death, and is later informed by Akari that she decided to break up with her boyfriend. While visiting their old school building, the boys plan how they will confront Itaru about his relationship with Akari. While waiting for them in the music room, Chisaki asks Manaka if she likes Tsumugu. Manaka replies that she isn't sure. Not realizing that the boys can overhear just outside the room, Manaka wonders if she would go out with Tsumugu and if they would kiss; and if she would one day get married and have to leave the village. After hearing this, Hikari walks in acting as though he hadn't heard any Manaka's confession. The next day, Hikari confronts Itaru and follows him up to Tsumugu's house where he is stopped by Tsumugu's grandfather, who explains to them that aside from the bad mood with the inhabitants of the surface, people from the village are not allowed to marry those from outside as their children will be born without ena. The children become unable to survive underwater and thus the former inhabitants are forced to leave Shioshishio to raise them. Hikari discovers that Tsumugu's grandfather also came from the village. On the next day, Hikari stops being hostile to Tsumugu and he becomes friends with the rest of the group after they finally complete the offering together. Knowing how much she is suffering with their separation, Hikari decides to make amends with Akari's boyfriend, but is stopped by the two girls who fought him before and one of them reveals that said man is her father. | |||
| 4 | "Because We're Friends" Transcription: "Tomodachi nanda kara" (Japanese: 友達なんだから) | October 24, 2013 | |
| Miuna and her friend Sayu ask Hikari to come up with a plan to split up Akari and Miuna's father, Itaru. Hikari declines, claiming that he despises underhanded schemes. In home economics class, Manaka decides to have some of her classmates taste the dish she made with her friends in an attempt to befriend them. But they shove her away, dropping it on the ground and cause a commotion in class. The boys reluctantly apologize only after being urged to by Tsumugu. Shortly after, Hikari and Manaka discover that someone has vandalized the Ojoshi and Hikari assumes the same boys are the culprits. He accuses them and "chests" one of the boys as retaliation. Later, Sayu admits to Miuna that she was the one who vandalized the Ojoshi (which Chisaki and Kaname discover while cleaning up), but remembering Hikari's words, Miuna reprimands her friend for doing so. While returning home, Hikari and Manaka rescue Itaru from drowning after he borrowed some diving gear to see Akari at the village. Meanwhile, Akari reveals to Uroko-sama that she was friends with Miuna and her family, and after Miuna's mother died, she decided to take care of her and her father in her place, but with Miuna's rejection, she decided to give up on it. After Miuna falsely claims that she was the one who destroyed the offering, Hikari makes amends with the boys that he wrongly accused with Manaka's help, while Kaname makes Sayu confess the truth to Hikari. This makes Chisaki sad as once again Manaka helps Hikari while she could do nothing for him. | |||
| 5 | "Hey, Sea Slug" Transcription: "Ano ne Umiushi" (Japanese: あのねウミウシ) | October 31, 2013 | |
| Still depressed with what happened, Chisaki does not join her friends on their way to school and when she finally leaves, she meets Tsumugu. Chisaki confesses to Tsumugu that she likes Hikari unaware that Manaka, who returned to pick her up, was close enough to hear her confession. Meanwhile, Akari breaks up with Itaru, claiming that Miuna would never accept her. After Akari apologizes for causing her so much trouble and assuring her that she will not trouble her any longer, Miuna disappears. Learning of Miuna's disappearance on the phone, Hikari reprimands Akari and tells her that her rightful place is to be with Miuna as her mother. Hikari and his friends manage to find Miuna. After Hikari's friends depart, Hikari tells Miuna that Akari is a good person, but Miuna refuses to like her and claims that she has no one to love. In despair, she runs away and jumps into the sea, revealing her mother was also from the sea. Hikari rescues her, after which Miuna admits that she's always liked Akari, but that she's afraid Akari might die the same way her mother did. Hikari sympathizes and wonders if perhaps it would be better to avoid the pain of rejection by not loving Manaka, but instead encourages Miuna in her true feelings. The following morning, Akari finds Hikari and Miuna asleep next to the wall outside the shop. She scolds Miuna and tells her that she will never leave her. On the wall is the now finished message in gum "Don't go away". | |||
| 6 | "Beyond Tomoebi" Transcription: "Tomoebi no Mukō" (Japanese: 巴日のむこう) | November 7, 2013 | |
| The children are taking swim class and there's a commotion at the pool. Hikari and Tsumugu decide to have a small competition but Hikari ends up crushing his toenail and Manaka rushes in quickly to assist him, leaving Chisaki once again ashamed that Manaka stood up for him ahead of her. Manaka tries to get Chisaki to accompany them to the infirmary, but Chisaki declines. Hikari gets frustrated not only for hurting himself, but for realizing that Tsumugu can swim faster than him on the surface. After classes, the children join together to rebuild the Ojoshi, joined later by Miuna, Sayu and the rest of the class. However, Chisaki leaves early after Manaka keeps trying to get Hikari and Chisaki closer together. Manaka catches up to Chisaki, but Chisaki reminds her that she wanted Manaka to forget about her liking Hikari. On her way back home, Manaka meets Tsumugu and reminisces about the day when she and her friends failed to witness the Tomoebi, a rare underwater natural phenomenon because it took too long for her to join them. Back at Shioshishio, Manaka witnesses the Tomoebi starting again and manages to call Chisaki to watch it with her, and taking Tsumugu's advice, she speaks her mind without hesitating to reconcile with her, but regretting that they could not watch it together with the boys, unaware that Hikari and Kaname are watching it too while overhearing them. | |||
| 7 | "The Ofunehiki Shakes" Transcription: "Ofunehiki Yurete" (Japanese: おふねひきゆれて) | November 14, 2013 | |
| Assisted by their friends, the children manage to rebuild the sacrifice for the Ofunehiki. However, the real festival will not be held as the fishermen and the men from Shioshishio are at odds with each other. After helping the others to collect signatures for a petition to hold the festival again, Hikari fails to convince his father Tomori to support their attempt to hold the festival. But Hikari does convince the "young men's society" to meet with some men from the fishery association to discuss the festival. Hikari is surprised when his father also attends the meeting. Despite being impressed at first with the offering, it does not take long for both sides to reignite their old feuds and start fighting. When Akari and Itaru arrive together, the Shioshishio villagers become even more agitated such that they end up knocking Hikari into the Ojoshi which topples and breaks. After the failed meeting, Tomori attempts to once again persuade Akari to break up with Itaru but she had made her decision and prepares herself to leave her house in Shioshishio. Hikari decides to leave with her as well but Uroko-sama uses his powers in attempt to stop them until Tomori asks him to show them mercy. | |||
| 8 | "Beyond the Wavering Feelings" Transcription: "Tayutau Omoi no Saki" (Japanese: たゆたう想いのさき) | November 21, 2013 | |
| Hikari and Akari move to Itaru's house. Itaru reaffirms his intention to have Akari's father and the rest of Shioshishio acknowledge their union. Miuna asks Hikari to help her look for a present for Akari and he calls the rest of his friends to accompany them to the city. At the train station, they encounter Tsumugu who later leads them around the city. They check stores around the city for an affordable necklace for Akari. In one of the stores, Chisaki and Hikari get left behind since the elevator was full. Chisaki uses this moment to discuss Hikari's feelings for Manaka. Hikari claims that if Manaka chooses to be with Tsumugu, he will support her in that. After choosing the present she intends to buy, Miuna asks her father for some extra money just to later discover that the necklace in question is sold out. Hikari and the others decide to help her search for some shells to craft a similar necklace instead. When Miuna finally gives the necklace to Akari, it starts snowing and Hikari recognizes that it is in fact saline snow, a phenomenon that supposedly only occurs underwater. | |||
| 9 | "Unknown Warmth" Transcription: "Shiranai Nukumori" (Japanese: 知らないぬくもり) | November 28, 2013 | |
| The adults of Shioshishio are assembled by Uroko-sama who reveals that a catastrophe is coming. Meanwhile the students continue their preparations for the upcoming festival. Chisaki feels ill and Tsumugu takes her to the sea to restore her Ena. She becomes angry when Tsumugu asks her if she has given up on Hikari and she decides to go home instead. Kaname accompanies her and they arrive at the village to be received by the adults carrying blue lanterns. Manaka follows soon after and is told by her parents that she may not return to the surface. The following day Hikari learns that all of his friends from Shioshishio are absent from school and he returns to the village to find out why. Manaka informs him that they are forbidden to leave the village as a calamity is impending. Asked why she disobediently left her home to tell him this, she says that she "just had to". Unable to resist his own urge, he embraces her, but is surprised when she shoves him away. He runs away only to be met by his father who tells him to return home. | |||
| 10 | "The Saltflake Snow Falls and Falls" Transcription: "Nukumi Yuki Furufuru" (Japanese: ぬくみ雪ふるふる) | December 5, 2013 | |
| Hikari is informed that according to Uroko-sama, the Sea God's power is weakening and thus the saltflake snow will keep falling and cooling the world until it freezes, possibly killing all humans on the surface. At some point the Sea God's powers will renew and the world will be restored to its former self. To avoid this fate, the people undersea will enter into hibernation and the villagers will gather for a banquet on Friday, entering into a fasting period after which the hibernation will begin. Believing that the only way to please the Sea God and prevent this catastrophe is to perform the Ofunehiki, Hikari convinces Uroko-sama to let him and his friends go to school until the time for their hibernation. During the banquet, Manaka is distraught upon the current situation and when she finally finds a sea slug with a red belly, she tells it her true feelings. The following day, Kaname confesses his true feelings to Chisaki. | |||
| 11 | "The Changing Times" Transcription: "Kawariyuku Toki" (Japanese: 変わりゆくとき) | December 12, 2013 | |
| After Kaname's confession, he and Chisaki accompany their friends to school as if nothing had happened. After their fast begins, the people of Shioshishio's ena gets thicker in preparation for their hibernation. Fearing that they might never see their friends again after their sleep begins, Hikari and the others start eating once again to delay the process. Meanwhile, Akari and Itaru make plans for their marriage while the fishermen ask Hikari to help them perform the Ofunehiki to please the Sea God and stop the cold. However, Uroko-sama claims that their efforts at that point are futile, but Hikari insists that they must do something. Assisted by the rest of the city, the children make their preparations for the ritual, but apparently it will happen on the same day the sea dwellers will begin their hibernation. Akari asks the others to allow her to take the place of the offering, claiming that after pleasing the sea god she will return to marry Itaru with his blessing. Everyone agrees to her wish. Chisaki, following Kaname's example, decides to confess her feelings for Hikari. | |||
| 12 | "I Want to be Kind" Transcription: "Yasashiku Naritai" (Japanese: 優しくなりたい) | December 19, 2013 | |
| As preparations are made for both the Ofunehiki and Akari's wedding, Tsumugu accompanies Manaka and Chisaki to the city to choose her wedding dress. Tsumugu has a brief encounter with his mother and he seems displeased upon seeing her. Meanwhile, Akari has a short meeting with her father and expresses her desire to have the same happiness with Itaru and Miuna that her father had with her and Hikari after his wife died. Back at Shioshishio, Hikari and his friends learn that those younger than them are already entering into hibernation and despite their efforts to delay the process, it is only a matter of time before they too will begin their hibernation. While reliving some of their memories from their old school, Kaname asks Hikari about his feelings for Manaka. Hikari finally confesses to her. A surprised Manaka runs away and Hikari chases after her, but Chisaki stops him and confesses her own feelings to him, after which she tells him to go after Manaka. While running away from the village, Manaka once again is pulled up in a fishing net by Tsumugu. | |||
| 13 | "Unreachable Fingertips" Transcription: "Todokanu Yubisaki" (Japanese: 届かぬゆびさき) | December 26, 2013 | |
| After a brief talk with Tsumugu, Manaka returns home and meets Hikari. Hikari reaffirms his feelings for her and she says she has something to tell him after the Ofunehiki. On the day of the ceremony, the rest of Shioshishio is about to hibernate while Hikari and his friends participate in the Ofunehiki. As the boats get started, Uroko-sama lights the way for them. Suddenly, the boats are surrounded by whirlpools and both Akari and Tsumugu fall into the sea. While Chisaki and Kaname dive to rescue Tsumugu, Manaka rescues Akari by offering herself as the sacrifice in place of Akari. Hikari rescues Akari but fails to save Manaka as the currents drive him away. Meanwhile the boat carrying Kaname, Chisaki and Tsumugu makes a fast maneuver to avoid a falling pillar, but Kaname falls in back into the sea. A strange barrier covers Shioshishio and Akari is found floating just offshore, but Manaka, Hikari, and Kaname do not return. | |||
| 14 | "The Promised Day" Transcription: "Yakusoku no Hi" (Japanese: 約束の日) | January 9, 2014 | |
| Five years later, the sea over Shioshishio is frozen and the surface enters into a continued winter. Chisaki pays a visit to Tsumugu's grandfather Isamu at the hospital before returning to meet Akari and her son, Akira. They reminisce about Miuna cheering up Akari up after she had found out that she was pregnant and was too worried about Hikari and the others to be happy with it. At the school, the students are informed that a Tomoebi will occur over the sea and they decide to have a party at the shore. Sayu warns Miuna that one of their classmates intends to confess to her on the occasion. After the Ofunehiki five years ago, Chisaki was taken in at Tsumugu's house by Isamu. Later Isamu is hospitalized and Tsumugu leaves to study oceanography at college to learn more about the situation at the sea villages and their connection with the climate changes. During the Tomoebi, Miuna is asked out by her classmate, but she declines claiming that she likes someone else. A strange light appears and Tsumugu, who is studying the phenomena with his teacher, meets Miuna at the place where the light appears and nearby they find a naked Hikari, who has not aged since he disappeared five years ago. | |||
| 15 | "The Protector of Smiles" Transcription: "Egao no Mamoribito" (Japanese: 笑顔の守り人) | January 16, 2014 | |
| Chisaki learns of Hikari's return but refrains from meeting him. Meanwhile, Hikari is still recovering from his hibernation when he meets some of his old friends and the fishermen association presents him with the same flag he used during the Ofunehiki. Still refusing to meet Hikari, Chisaki confesses to Tsumugu that she is afraid of how Hikari will react upon seeing her. Hikari dives into the sea and attempts to return to Shioshishio but the sea currents drive him away. As he surfaces, Tsumugu is passing by in a boat, and confronts Hikari for not going to meet Chisaki. Hikari tells him that he is overwhelmed by all the change he has seen and is afraid of seeing the same change in someone as close to him as Chisaki. While returning home, Hikari hears the Ofunehiki song being broadcast. Going to investigate the source, he runs into Chisaki who tells him the song is broadcast every day at 5:00 for the residents of Shioshishio. She then apologizes to Hikari for changing so much, but Hikari says she hasn't changed at all. He returns home determined to face all the changes he now sees and is greeted by Miuna who is waving the Ofunehiki flag for him. She vows that she will do what she can to protect Hikari's smile. | |||
| 16 | "The Whispers of the Faraway Waves" Transcription: "Tōi Nami no Sasayaki" (Japanese: 遠い波のささやき) | January 23, 2014 | |
| Hikari goes back to school with Miuna and Sayu. The next day, Hikari, Miuna, and Sayu go to the city to purchase a new school uniform for Hikari. Sayu becomes annoyed with the flirtatious behavior between Miuna and Hikari, and she quarrels with Miuna admitting that she's jealous of Miuna since Hikari has returned, but Kaname has not. The two separate and Hikari returns to find Sayu alone. They get a ride back to the village and Hikari stops to explore the old shipyard on a hunch that Miuna might be there. Shortly after finding Miuna, a boom dolly collapses and causes Miuna to fall into the water. Surprisingly, Miuna discovers that she can now swim and breathe in the water. Hikari finds her and brings her back to the surface. When they are out of the water, Miuna meets Sayu who was worried and apologizes to her. Later, Kaname is seen walking about naked and asks a townsman what day it is. | |||
| 17 | "The Sick Two" Transcription: "Byōki na Futari" (Japanese: ビョーキなふたり) | January 30, 2014 | |
| Naked Kaname appears at the surface asking a man for information. Upon learning of Kaname's awakening, Hikari and the others reunite with him. After being examined, Kaname moves to Tsumugu's house and becomes uncomfortable with how Chisaki and Tsumugu have become closer. The next day, Sayu, still having feelings for Kaname, is anxious about meeting him again, but when they meet by accident after school, she flees in tears when he fails to recognize her. After overhearing Hikari talking with Kaname, claiming that he can't change anymore until he reunites with Manaka, Miuna has a fallout with Sayu, who decides to discard her feelings for Kaname for the sake of moving on with her life, and that hanging on to such feelings is "sick". Later on the street, Kaname sees and calls her by name. Sayu thinks that she too, like Miuna, is indeed "sick". Later that night, Hikari, Kaname, and Miuna are informed that Tsumugu and Professor Mihashi found a weak point in the sea current surrounding Shioshishio, and the next day, the three dive in an attempt to return to the sea village by following the same sound Miuna heard when she first fell into the water. | |||
| 18 | "Shioshishio" Transcription: "Shioshishio" (Japanese: シオシシオ) | February 6, 2014 | |
| By following the sounds, Miuna leads Hikari and Kaname back to Shioshishio, which is now covered in snow and its residents still asleep. Anxious about meeting Manaka once more, Hikari decides to return home and pay a visit to his father first, while Kaname leaves to check on his house. While waiting for them to return, Miuna again hears the sound and is guided to the sea children's old school, where she sees glimpses of how Hikari and the others' days there used to be. Soon after, Uroko-sama appears before her, questioning Miuna about what she is really looking for. Hikari and Kaname find Miuna after Uroko-sama disappears. Miuna then hears the sound again and they follow it to a secret, unknown trench where all the previous Ojoshis are deposited, and where they find Manaka still asleep. Miuna realizes that the sound is coming from Manaka's ena, which is coming off. Realizing that she is at risk of dying from the loss of her ena, Hikari decides to take her to the surface. The trench collapses as the three leave Shioshishio taking the unconscious Manaka with them. | |||
| 19 | "The Lost, Lost Little..." Transcription: "Maigo no Maigo no..." (Japanese: まいごの迷子の。。。) | February 13, 2014 | |
| After some examination, it is confirmed that although still asleep, Manaka is in good health and should wake up soon. Seeing Miuna watching Hikari with the sleeping Manaka, Chisaki realizes that Miuna likes him as well. While tending Isamu, he tells her a part of the Ofunehiki legend she never heard before. Back at Tsumugu's house, Kaname questions him about what he intends to do with the data obtained regarding Miuna and the others and learns that he and his professor must show results to the scientific community to ensure that their research on Shioshishio will keep being funded. Later that night, Chisaki has some wine with Tsumugu and while she is asleep, both Tsumugu and Kaname express to each other their feelings for Chisaki. The next day, Chisaki attempts to return to Shioshishio by herself but is pulled by the currents until Hikari comes to help her. As they arrive at the village, Chisaki shares what she learned from Isamu with Hikari. The legend was the young woman who offered herself to the Sea God could not forget the loved one she left behind at the surface and in the end, the god let her go, but took something away from her as a price. Certain that this must be related to Manaka having lost her ena, Hikari decides to look for Uroko-sama to find out what he can do to help her. He leaves to return to the surface with Chisaki, who realizes that she is still in love with him. However, one week passes and Manaka is yet to awaken. | |||
| 20 | "Sleeping Beauty" Transcription: "Nemuri Hime" (Japanese: ねむりひめ) | February 20, 2014 | |
| With no signs of Manaka awakening, Hikari keeps searching for Uroko-sama with Kaname and Chisaki's help, but without success. Miuna, who decided to not help with their search, is worried about Hikari and reprimands him when he reveals his intention to stop going to school while looking for a way to help Manaka, creating a divide between them. The next day, while talking with Sayu, Miuna starts wondering if deep inside she does not wish for Manaka to awaken. Later at home, while mistaking Miuna for Manaka, a feverish Hikari collapses. The next day, Miuna feigns to have a fever in order to stay at home and take care of him. Tsumugu calls her asking for her help with his research, but realizing that she is crying, he comes to meet her in person. Tsumugu reveals that just like her, he was afraid of Hikari and Kaname's return out of his feelings for Chisaki, but in the end, he was happy with their reunion. After returning home, Miuna suggests that as a person with strong feelings for Manaka, Hikari should kiss her in hopes of waking her. As a flustered Hikari argues with Miuna, he is scolded by a just awoken Manaka for arguing with a girl; much to the great surprise of both Hikari and Miuna. | |||
| 21 | "The Messenger from the Bottom of the Sea" Transcription: "Minasoko Yori no Tsukai" (Japanese: 水底よりの使い) | February 27, 2014 | |
| Hikari and his friends are surprised with Manaka who is cheerful and acts as if nothing has changed; even though she has lost her ena. Kaname tells Hikari it is probably because she has Hikari and the others to support her. Later Hikari asks Manaka what she wanted to tell him after the Ofunehiki, but Manaka does not remember saying so. She does remember that she heard a voice she didn't recognize telling her to "give something". Tsumugu tells Chisaki that he will return to university at the end of the month, but that he will keep in close contact and return quickly if needed. Chisaki says that he must be lonely, but Tsumugu says it's because she is lonely. Early the next day, Tsumugu shows everyone that he has been cursed by Uroko-same with a fish in his elbow. They conclude that Uroko-same must be nearby. | |||
| 22 | "Thing That Was Lost" Transcription: "Nakushita Mono" (Japanese: 失くしたもの) | March 6, 2014 | |
| Hikari and his friends start searching for Uroko-sama without success. Meanwhile, the temperature around the country continues to drop and the snow spreads further inland prompting Professor Mihashi to be called back to the university. Tsumugu decides to stay for a little more, claiming that he must continue their research, but later reveals to Kaname that his true intent is to stay near Chisaki. Meanwhile, Hikari realizes that Manaka has lost her memories from several situations they had experienced together, including the time when he confessed his feelings to her. Some time later, Hikari and Miuna finally meet Uroko-sama at a nearby shrine and he explains to them that Manaka had become an Ojoshi for the Sea God, and it helped delay the cooling of the planet. But when she was taken back to the surface the cooling began once again. He also reveals that just like Manaka, the original Ojoshi could not discard her feelings for the loved one she left behind and the Sea God allowed her to return, but it took away her ability to love, and any memories of love, instead. A desperate Hikari then realizes that at her current state, his feelings for Manaka will never reach her at all. | |||
| 23 | "To Whom Do These Feelings Belong" Transcription: "Kono Kimochi wa Dare no Mono" (Japanese: この気持ちは誰のもの) | March 13, 2014 | |
| Miuna convinces Hikari to tell his friends what he learned about Manaka from Uroko-sama. During their meeting, Kaname and Chisaki wonder if Manaka might be just as well off without feeling love since she seems happy as she is, but Sayu lashes out at them for thinking such a thing. Hikari leaves after Sayu saying that he too is disturbed by their thinking. After their meeting, Sayu reveals to Miuna that she could only move on with her life thanks to her feelings for Kaname, unrequited or not, thus she could not agree at all with the idea of losing them. On their way back home, Hikari and Miuna meet Manaka and they find a white rock that Hikari believes is the one produced when Manaka spoke to the seaslug five years in the past. He tells Manaka to keep it hoping that it will one day help her to regain her lost memories of love. Later, Sayu tells Miuna that she will confess to Kaname, even though she's certain he will reject her. She's still grateful for her feelings for him because she believes they made her the person that she is. Hikari asks Tsumugu to spend more time near Manaka in hopes of awakening her lost feelings when Tsumugu tells him that he will soon be returning to university. Hikari becomes angry, but Tsumugu responds that it would be wrong for him to act as if he had feelings for Manaka that he doesn't have. Rather than Manaka, he admits to Hikari that it is Chisaki that he really loves, not realizing that Chisaki was approaching and hears his confession. Shocked by the confession, Chisaki dives into the sea. Tsumugu dives in after her and as he begins to suffer from lack of oxygen, he manifests ena just as Miuna did. He then meets a surprised Chisaki in Shioshishio and confesses that he always liked her before the day of the Ofunehiki five years earlier. | |||
| 24 | "Detritus" Transcription: "Detoritasu" (Japanese: デトリタス) | March 20, 2014 | |
| Chisaki rejects Tsumugu and flees back to the surface. Returning home, she meets Kaname, who realizes that she is indeed in love with Tsumugu and encourages her to be honest with her feelings, but she claims that doing so would betray the feelings she had for Hikari. Akira gives Manaka a letter in which he declares that he loves her. Manaka runs to her room and cries because she can't understand what love is. The next day, Chisaki asks Isamu how the story of the Ojoshi ends and he reveals that the Ojoshi did not reunite with her lover because he drowned while attempting to chase after her. Tsumugu, Hikari, and Kaname meet Uroko-sama and Tsumugu informs them that when his ena awakened, he sensed the feelings of the sea god and Manaka around him. He suggests that using Manaka's stone on an Ojoshi in another Ofunehiki might return her feelings to the sea god, and thus satisfy him to restore stability to the surface, and also allow Manaka's own feelings to return to her. To their surprise, Uroko-sama agrees to help them. The villagers, including Hikari's old classmates, all join together to prepare for the Ofunehiki. While preparing, Chisaki admits to Tsumugu that she is considering taking the place of the Ojoshi, but Tsumugu strongly objects. Kaname overhears the conversation and is followed by Sayu who was watching him. She scolds him for hiding his own feelings from Chisaki, but he responds that it would make no difference if he had, because he knows that Chisaki would always love someone other than him. Sayu then confesses her own feelings for him, which touches Kaname such that he thanks her and asks Sayu if he can start over with her by seeing her as a girl his own age rather than as a little kid. After asking him earlier who he loved, Hikari tells Manaka that he does love someone. When she asks him who, he says that she will find out after the Ofunehiki. | |||
| 25 | "Love, Is Just Like The Sea." Transcription: "Suki wa, Umi to Nite Iru." (Japanese: 好きは、海と似ている。) | March 27, 2014 | |
| On the eve of the festival, Akira steals the pendant with Manaka's stone and accidentally drops it into the sea. Miuna dives in to catch the sinking pendant and is able to hear Manaka's confession captured in the stone from five years ago that she loves Hikari. Tsumugu who dived in after Miuna also hears the confession and admits that he knew of Manaka's love for Hikari when she told him on his boat five years previously. Miuna asks why he never told anyone to which he responds that Manaka made him promise to tell no one because she knew that Chisaki was in love with Hikari. Later that night, Miuna follows Hikari along the beach and asks him if he loves Manaka. He admits that he has always loved her, and Miuna asks him to repeat that he loves her several times. Miuna runs away hoping that the pain of hearing Hikari's love for Manaka will allow her to put away the love that she has for Hikari. Also that night, Tsumugu tells Chisaki that Manaka was in love with Hikari and not him in hopes that Chisaki would accept Tsumugu's love for her. This time she does not resist while Tsumugu embraces her. As the festival begins the following day, Uroko-sama entrusts the festival maidens with the holy flame and they board the boats with Hikari and his friends for the harbor. As five years before, a storm and whirlpools form around the boats. Manaka falls into the sea but is unable to breathe underwater without her ena. Miuna dives after her and upon touching Manaka, is able to transfer her own ena to Manaka. Now close by, Tsumugu tells Hikari that Miuna and Manaka's ena are connected because of their shared love for Hikari. Miuna shoves Manaka away, but is then swept away in the whirlpool down to the Ojoshi graveyard where she now takes the place of the sacrifice. Hikari chases after her, but cannot reach her because of a barrier which forms around her as she lies in the grave of the Ojoshi. As the wooden Ojoshi with Manaka's pendant descends into the graveyard, Manaka's confession "I love Hikari" can be heard. Miuna smiles and repeats the words, "Hikari, I love you" and Hikari screams her name. | |||
| 26 | "The Color Of The Sea. The Color Of The Land. The Color Of The Wind. The Color Of The Heart. The Color Of You. ~Earth color of a calm~" Transcription: "Umi no Iro. Daichi no Iro. Kaze no Iro. Kokoro no Iro. Kimi no Iro. ~Āsu karā ofu ā kāmu~" (Japanese: 海の色。 大地の色。 風の色。 心の色。 君の色。 〜Earth color of a calm〜) | April 3, 2014 | |
| As Manaka is brought back to the surface, her feelings and memories return. She also understands that the sea god took away the original Ojoshi's feelings to protect her from the sadness of losing her original lover. Hikari is unable to break the barrier around Miuna so Tsumugu looks for help and finds Uroko-sama. Hikari blames himself for not realizing Miuna's feelings for him, and offers his own feelings to the sea god in place of Miuna. At this point, the Sacred Flame responds and Hikari is finally able to break the barrier and rescue Miuna. Uroko-sama finally realizes that while the original Ojoshi had feelings for her former surface lover, she was in love with the sea god and her children in the sea. The sea begins to move again, and many of the residents of Shioshishio start to awaken. Hikari's father is the first to return. He greets Miuna and reveals that he was listening when Hikari told him about Akira whom he wants to meet for the first time. As more residents of Shioshishio awaken, they return with the others back to the surface and are happily greeted. Some time later, Akira, who now has ena, dives into the sea to pick up Manaka as she leaves for school. Fishing resumes, and Uroko-sama points out that the Saltflake Snow has stopped falling - a sign that the cooling of the planet was halted. As Manaka and Hikari walk along the beach, she asks him if he remembers their talk from five years before when she said she would tell him something after the Ofunehiki. He responds that he already knows what she was going to say. They look to the horizon, now certain of their feelings for each other. | |||
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