Children of the Sea (2019)

Name: Children of the Sea
Director: Ayumu Watanabe
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery
Released: 2019
Duration: 111 min

海獣の子供

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👍 71%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.

Critics Score

🎬 62% (RT: 62%)

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Director

Ayumu Watanabe

Runtime

1h 51m

Country

China, Hong Kong, Japan

Language

Japanese

TMDB Rating

7.1/10 (357 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes

62%

Cast

Mana Ashida as Ruka Azumi (voice)

Hiiro Ishibashi as Umi (voice)

Seishu Uragami as Sora (voice)

Win Morisaki as Anglade (voice)

Goro Inagaki as Masaaki Azumi (voice)

Yu Aoi as Kanako Azumi (voice) · 75% avg

Tohru Watanabe as Teacher (voice)

Min Tanaka as Jimu (voice) · 74% avg

Is Children of the Sea good?

Most people think so. 71% audience score, estimated from 357 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 62%.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗