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★★★★★
“Stunning — Every frame vibrates with life.”
– Maggie Gogler / View of the Arts

“A delightfully offbeat experience”
– Carlos Aguilar / Variety

“A very imaginative and idiosyncratic film that looks like no other and has real visual identity.”
– Mehdi Achouche / Asian Movie Pulse

“There’s such immense visual density in its world design, teeming with life in the way a coral reef would”
– Kambole Campbell / Anime News Network

“A lowly employee at a shipping company in a fantasy near-future Shanghai finds himself married to a mermaid princess in this comedy of romantic missteps and cultural misunderstandings. — Veteran animator Yasuhiro Aoki’s terrific feature-directing debut leans into the grotesque and absurd elements of human-merperson relations. Visually spectacular and energetic in style, this is a bracingly anarchic piece of storytelling that announces a distinctive new voice in Japanese anime.
This picture, from Studio4°C, shares something of the production company’s maverick approach to features including Tekkonkinkreet (2006), which is a similarly twisted take on a fairytale premise. —
— Gloriously lawless approach to storytelling and a gleefully untrammelled spirit. — It is an absolute blast.”
– Wendy Ide / Screen International