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Mermaid Saga (Japanese: ?????? Hepburn: Ningyo Shir?zu) is a series of manga graphic novels in three volumes by Rumiko Takahashi. Two of the stories from the series, Mermaid's Forest and Mermaid's Scar, have been adapted as anime OVAs, and all of the tales, except one, were later produced as an anime television series.
Mermaid Saga | |
English cover of the first manga volume | |
?????? (Ningyo Shir?zu) | |
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Genre | Horror |
Manga | |
Written by | Rumiko Takahashi |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Sh?nen |
Magazine | Weekly Sh?nen Sunday |
Original run | August 1984 – February 1994 |
Volumes | 3 |
Original video animation | |
Mermaid's Forest | |
Directed by | Takaya Mizutani |
Music by | Kenji Kawai |
Studio | Studio Pierrot |
Released | August 16, 1991 |
Runtime | 55 minutes |
Original video animation | |
Mermaid's Scar | |
Directed by | Morio Asaka |
Produced by | Ayao Ueda (Shogakukan) Shir? Sasaki (Victor) |
Music by | Norihiro Tsuru |
Studio | Madhouse |
Released | September 24, 1993 |
Runtime | 45 minutes |
Anime television series | |
Mermaid's Forest | |
Directed by | Masaharu Okuwaki |
Studio | TMS Entertainment |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | October 4, 2003 – December 20, 2003 |
Episodes | 13 |
Screenplay
According to an ancient Japanese legend, mermaid flesh may grant immortality if eaten. However, there is a much greater chance that consumption will lead to death or transformation into a damned creature known as a Lost Soul (or Deformed Ones in the English dub). Mermaid Saga tells the tale of Yuta, an immortal who has been alive for five hundred years. Throughout the series, he wanders across Japan searching for a cure and meets others whose lives have also been ruined by mermaid flesh.
Note: In some cases a character is portrayed by a different voice actor in the OVAs. These voice actors are also added.
Main characters
- Yuta (?? Y?ta)
- Voiced by: K?ichi Yamadera (Japanese); Justin Gross and Liam O'Brien (English)
- Mermaid Forest OVA Voiced by: Michael Magee (English)
- Mermaid's Scar OVA Voiced by: Jason Gray-Stanford (English)
- As a main character of the series, Yuta is a 500-year-old immortal. He had eaten the flesh of a mermaid out of curiosity when his fellow fishermen had captured one, but out of all the fishermen who ate a piece, only Yuta survived. His comrades had either been poisoned or turned into Deformed Ones. Yuta was afraid that he would eventually meet the same fate. When nothing happens to him he forgets about ever eating the mermaid's flesh. He takes a wife and lives normally until he discovers that while she grew older as the years went by, he had not aged physically since the day he ate the flesh. He hears that a mermaid will be able to help him turn normal again, so he begins his endless travel in search of a way to become mortal. Along his travels, he meets a lovely fifteen-year-old girl named Mana, another immortal. He rescues Mana from mermaids who were planning to devour her and take on her youthful appearance, and she joins him as a traveling companion. Kind-hearted and helpful, Yuta has befriended many people who are affiliated with the mermaid's flesh over 500 years, and tried to help them from its curse.
- Mana (?? Mana)
- Voiced by: Minami Takayama (Japanese); Karen Thompson (English)
- Mermaid Forest OVA Voiced by: Anne Marie Zola (English)
- Mermaid's Scar OVA Voiced by: Lalainia Lindbjerg (English)
- The female protagonist of the series, she is an immortal and Yuta's companion. She was raised by a group of old women who kept her captive and incapacitated in a hut. In reality, they were mermaids who consumed human flesh in order to regain their youth, and they planned to eat her once she reached adolescence. She travels with Yuta after he rescues her, and possesses a large sense of loyalty and feelings towards him, but due to her somewhat naïve and spoiled nature, she does not seem to truly realize her emotions towards him may be love, or even simple affection (even where Yuta stated she might have been jealous, she does not understand what that word means, mistaking the pronunciation for jellosy and asking if it tastes good). She is fifteen when she gains immortality at the beginning of the series.
Other characters
- Masato (?? Masato)
- Voiced by: Makiko Ohmoto (Japanese); Erika Weinstein (English)
- Mermaid's Scar OVA Voiced by: Yuuichi Harada (Japanese), Chris Turner (English)
- A young boy who has been immortal for eight hundred years. He has a face of an angel, but the soul of a devil. Despite his childlike appearance, eight hundred years of loneliness and wandering have turned Masato into a cruel and heartless monster. His first victim to whom he fed mermaid flesh was his original mother eight hundred years ago, who became a Lost Soul. After one hundred years of being adopted by various people and losing them to famine, disease, and war, the boy decides to end this cycle of loneliness and try mermaid flesh again. For the next seven hundred years to come, he would patiently give mermaid flesh to a woman, and have her pose as his mother until she was deemed useless, not caring if they turn into monsters or die from poison, and knowing that he would one day find a true immortal companion. He acquired a Nambu pistol from World War II, which he used in his battle against Yuta. In the OVA, it is revealed that his latest mother figure, Misa, gave him the name Masato. He found her during World War II after she had lost her real son in an air-raid; he continuously pursued her when she attempted to flee after growing weary of living with him. Sixty years later, Yuta and Mana came across Misa and Masato, and after Misa began losing her regenerative powers, Masato set his sights on making his nanny, Yukie, as his new mother-figure. Yukie turned into a Lost Soul, and Masato turned his sights on Mana. However, after seeing how Mana was devoted to Yuta and brutally attacked Masato for it, the 800-year-old boy gave her up for being a "horrible girl", and set the mansion on fire in an attempt to burn the two to death. He took Misa's car and fled, but plowed right into a truck (off a cliff in the OVA), and was thought to have perished. However, since his corpse was not found, it was implied that he was still out there searching for another mother. Masato is the only character in the entire series known to have lived longer than Yuta, a fact that shocked and horrified Yuta when he tried (unsuccessfully) to use his own 500 years to intimidate Masato. Although Masato did not feel anything regarding his role in Yukie's death, he did shed a tear for Misa's death before leaving.
- Misa (?? Misa)
- Voiced by: Rei Sakuma (Japanese); Gina Grad (English)
- Mermaid's Scar OVA Voiced by: Gara Takashima (Japanese), Janyse Jaud (English)
- She lost her husband and child during World War II, and nearly died herself when she met a little boy who offered her a strange piece of meat. The child was Masato and the meat mermaid flesh. At first Misa was happy to have a new child in her life, but she grew afraid of the fact that neither were aging, and became terrified of what Masato was capable of. After escaping from him five years ago, she was taken in by an old man whom she later married. About one month ago, the two were in a boating accident and Misa was thought dead until a week later when she appeared with no wounds. Masato tracked her down and forced her to continue to act as his mother figure. She, in turn, tried to take the mermaid flesh from him to prevent him from feeding anyone else it, but to no avail. Misa failed to become a full-fledged immortal, as the mermaid flesh's effect began to wear off, and her healing powers were getting slower and weaker. Masato then simply told her that he would find a replacement. She eventually died after being attacked by a Lost Soul which was formerly Masato's nanny, Yukie. Masato shed a tear for her demise before departing.
- Yukie (?? Yukie)
- Voiced by: Chieko Honda (Japanese); Hunter Mackenzie Austin (English)
- Mermaid's Scar OVA Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Kathleen Barr (English)
- Masato's nanny. She is loving and caring and an excellent choice for Masato to choose as his new mother. Yukie does not know anything about Masato's immortality and Misa's dreadful past when she became an immortal. Later in the story, Yukie got engaged, but worries that she might leave Masato forever. To prevent her from leaving, Masato gives Yukie a piece of meat in which it turns out to be mermaid's flesh and then she eats it. She did not become an immortal, however: she transformed into a Lost Soul. After Yuta kills the monster, he discovers that it is Yukie who ate the mermaid flesh by finding her ring lying on the floor. Masato, being so detached from humanity for so long, did not feel anything for destroying Yukie despite her kindness. Yuta possesses Yukie's ring during his travels to help him remember Yukie as his friend (in Mermaid Scar OVA, he throws the ring to the ocean in the end).
- Rin (? Rin)
- Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese); Stephanie Sheh (English)
- She is a daughter of Toba Island's headman, but due to the headman's sickness, Rin has to take over his leadership. Rin has been searching for a mermaid to cure her father. By that time, she meets Yuta when he came back to life after dying in a terrible battle he was in. Rin and Yuta fell in love with each other and Yuta promised to stay in Toba Island if he could turn back into a mortal. Isago wounded Rin's father to force Rin and Yuta to go hunting for a mermaid. They catch one but the Sakagami Islanders kill Yuta and capture Rin. In the end, Rin and Yuta learned that Isago is a mermaid. Yuta decides to leave Toba Island because he does not want to marry another mortal girl while he is immortal. Rin continues her father's leadership.
- Isago (? Isago)
- Voiced by: Ai Orikasa (Japanese); Wendee Lee (English)
- A wife of the Sakagami Island headman. Isago told her husband of the immortality of the mermaid's flesh and encouraged him to find one. Isago is pregnant from her former husband who was murdered by the Sakagami pirates three years earlier. In order to give birth to a healthy child, Isago needs to eat the mermaid flesh, because she is in fact a mermaid. She tells Rin that there are mermaids who can walk on land and mermaids who swim at sea. The ones who walk on land eat the swimming mermaids' flesh, especially during pregnancy. Isago finally ate mermaid flesh, dived into the ocean, transformed back into a mermaid, and gave birth to two healthy babies.
- Towa Kannagi (??? ?? Kannagi Towa)
- Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto (Japanese); Erica Shaffer (English)
- Mermaid Forest OVA Voiced by: Mika Doi (Japanese); Kata Sheridan (English)
- She was Dr. Shiina's fiancée. She suffered from a deadly illness when she was a young girl, so Towa's twin sister Sawa fed her the blood of a mermaid. The blood cured her illness, but her arm deformed that of a Lost Soul's and her hair turned pure white. While she did not age on the outside, her insides continued to age at the same rate as a mortal's. When Towa's father learned of what Sawa did to her, he had Towa locked up in a cell underneath the house and never allowed her to come out. Sawa lived a normal life: She wed and had a child while Towa lived alone with no visitors except for Shiina. Her deformed arm caused her terrible
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