

Children of the Sea
Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
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- Released
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- Language
- Japanese
- friendship
- aquarium
- philosophy
- supernatural
- based on manga
- seinen
- anime
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United StatesUS
- PhysicalShout Factory DVD and Blu Ray1 Sept 2020
- TheatricalNRDubbed13 Jun 2021
- TheatricalNR15 Jun 2021
AustraliaAU
- PremiereSydney Film Festival15 Jun 2019
- TheatricalPG12 Dec 2019
CanadaCA
- PremiereOttawa International Animation Festival26 Sept 2019
ChinaCN
- Theatrical20 Nov 2020
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-72 Oct 2020
FranceFR
- PremiereAnnecy International Animation Film Festival10 Jun 2019
- TheatricalTP10 Jul 2019
GermanyDE
- Theatrical625 Jan 2020
Hong KongHK
- TheatricalI27 Jun 2019
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT2 Dec 2019
JapanJP
- PremiereGTokyo19 May 2019
- TheatricalG7 Jun 2019
RussiaRU
- Theatrical6+10 Oct 2019
- Digital / OTT6+7 Nov 2019
South KoreaKR
- TheatricalALL30 Sept 2020
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Children of the Sea was released on 7 June 2019.
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SWITCH.
6/21/2019
This film epitomises the risk that filmmakers (both live-action and animated) take with adapting a long-running or ongoing manga - a vast amount of material has to be peeled back to the core essentials to make a film with a feature-length running time. Sometimes you can shorten the plot of the manga considerably, add in scenes and motifs and end up with a timeless piece of art like Katsuhiro Otomo’s ‘Akira’. Chop …
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