#ふしぎの海のナディア

[eternal80s90sanimeitalia]

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[animeglitch]

[plastic-years]

Finished this piece of Grandis Granva art from a while ago, because she's a total babe. If you like my work please check out my art Insta!

[lexinkle]

1889 World's fair in Paris France, a young acrobat girl of unknown origin meets a science-lover brilliant young inventor and they set off on a journey together

Oh I love this anime so much (especially Jean my boi!!!)

[takaki2]

アンキーってどこから来たのかと思っていたけどナディアのグランディス一味のセルフパロディっぽい

[nakamorijuan]

森川美穂 - ブルーウォーター Miho Morikawa - BLUE WATER Fushigi No Umi No NADIA - Opening Theme

[ensignia]

Art of Electra from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water by Ryu Fujisaki, displayed on the Gainax website's front page in May 2011.

[stevethefishdotnet]

Nadia iron beads. I took the pixels from the PC Engine Nadia game.

[dkquentai]

ふしぎの海のナディア 公式ガイドブック - アニメムック・アニメ雑誌取扱古本屋「アニエッグ古書店」

[bancho-zx]

[eatgecom]

An attractive design of Nadia from the retro anime TV series - Nadia The Secret of Blue Water.

[evanniversary]

A Basic Guide to Nadia

Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

ふしぎの海のナディア THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER, released in English as simply Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, is a show created by Gainax for NHK that ran for 39 episodes á 25 minutes from 1990 to 1991. It is in my opinion one of the most underappreciated anime ever. It directly prefigured Evangelion, it's almost completely singular in being an Adventure story that directly confronts the colonial underpinnings of the genre, and it's often one of the least talked about entries in the filmographies of the people who made it.

It's not unproblematic, no african people were involved in its production, but neither were any europeans, so its cultural insensitivity is a good bit more even-handed than many of its contemporaries in the Adventure genre.

While there are different releases of the show, they don't vary hugely. The biggest difference is that newer releases don't include the "Next Episode" previews, which featured postcards sent in by fans.

ふしぎの海のナディア roughly translates to "Nadia of the Mysterious Sea"

Fushigi no Umi no Nadia Gekijōyō Originalban / The Mystery of Fuzzy

ふしぎの海のナディア劇場用オリジナル版 , released in English under a few different titles including Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: The Movie, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: The Motion Picture and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: The Secret of Fuzzy, a theatrical film released two and a half months after the show's conclusion in 1991, set three years after the show. It was largely outsourced, it's barely over 80 minutes, including a good 20 minutes of clips from the show, it's not very well regarded but I personally actually quite like it, its janky animation just has a certain gap moe appeal, and it weirdly introduces a lot of ideas that show up again in Evangelion, despite neither the writer nor the director of the movie going on to work on Eva.

Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: Nautilus Story

ふしぎの海のナディア　ノーチラス・ストーリー is a re-edit of the show by Anno Hideaki that condenses the story into three two-hour movies. They were to my knowledge only officially released once in Japan in 1991, but there is a fan re-creation of the films using HD footage from modern releases of the show that has English subtitles and is very easy to find if you know where to look.

As is usual for recap movies, these are a fine way to get the main plot of the show, but especially the first part ends up feeling incredibly rushed and you lose a lot of thematic and emotional depth. 39 episodes is long, I get that, and I'd rather people watch the Nautilus Story than nothing at all, but you really should watch the show.

Movie 1: Ep. 1-9

Movie 2: Ep. 11-22

Movie 3: mostly Ep. 35-39

Nadia Omake Gekijō

ナディアおまけ劇場 (Nadia Bonus Theatre / Nadia Specials) is a series of 10 shorts included on physical releases of the show, some set between episodes of the show, some set after the show, and some that are completely non-canonical. To my knowledge they've never been officially released outside Japan, but someone uploaded them to YouTube and there's fansubs if you know where to look too.

Fushigi no Umi no Nadia Film Comic

ふしぎの海のナディア　フィルム・コミック is a comic/manga adaptation of Nadia using visual material from the show with 7 volumes in total, released from 1990 to 1991. To my knowledge it has not been translated into English, although I think I have seen an Italian translation somewhere, but most of the dialogue is probably taken from the show so it should be easy enough to follow, and copies are fairly affordable.

Volume 1: Ep. 1-4

Volume 2: Ep. 5-8

Volume 3: Ep. 9-10 & 14-15

Volume 4: Ep. 20-22

Volume 5: Ep. 23, 26, 31

Volume 6: Ep. 35-39

Volume 7: The Movie

Nadia novels

There are six novels based on Nadia. The first three are adaptations of the show, the fourth is an expanded version of the film's story, and the last two, titled Nadia Stories, are completely original stories set seven years after the TV show. These all almost certainly have not been translated into English, there are no official translations and fan translations of entire novels are pretty rare.

1. 小説ふしぎの海のナディア上　青い光を抱いたプリンセス (1990) (roughly: Princess in Blue Light)

2. 小説ふしぎの海のナディア中　未来を夢みる大海戦 (1991) (roughly: A Great Naval Battle That Dreams of the Future)

3. 小説ふしぎの海のナディア下　はるかなる高い空 (1991) (roughly: The Far Up Sky)

4. 小説ふしぎの海のナディア NADIA THE MOVIE　ー海から来た妖精ー (1991) (roughly: Fairy From the Sea)

5. ナディアストーリーズ１　ジャンとナディアのいちばん長い日 (1992) (roughly: Jean and Nadia's Longest Day)

6. ナディアストーリーズ２　ふしぎの森のマリー (1992) (roughly: Marie of the Mysterious Forest)

Albums

There's obviously soundtrack albums, as well as two albums of original songs titled VOCAL COLLECTION and two remix albums titled Mixed up NADIA and HOOKED ON NADIA, but there are also two narrative albums, Bye Bye Blue Water, released in 1991, and Good Luck NADIA 〜Bye Bye Blue Water PART 2, released in 1993, that feature audio drama segments interspersed with music. The first part mostly contains segments taking place during the story of the show, while the second part is mostly set after the show's conclusion, ending in 2005 with a descendant of Nadia named Itō Nadia living in New Tōkyō. Considering the similarity to NGE's setting, and that NGE started development in 1993 as a sequel to Nadia, it's possible this was at one point intended to be a setup for the show, with Itō Nadia most likely being developed into Misato when the rights to Nadia couldn't be obtained from NHK.

Interestingly, unlike most Nadia media, which used the Fushigi no Umi no Nadia branding, these albums use the English THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER logo. However, despite this and their titles being entirely in English, there is no English version of these albums, or even a text translation, at least not that I've been able to find.

Lastly, there's also an audio cassette titled やったらこうなっちゃったナディア (roughly: This is what happened when I tried it, Nadia) that I haven't been able to find out much about, but seems to also contain audio drama segments set over the course of the show.

Others

徳間アニメ絵本 (Tokuma Anime Picture Book) - A series of children's books based on children's anime films and series, particularly those made by or somehow with the involvement of Miyazaki Hayao. Books 7 and 8, released in 1991, adapt Nadia.

Famicom game: Appears to be a strategy game with Nadia characters & vehicles as units. Doesn't seem to have much of a story to speak of. Released in 1991.

Mega Drive game: An RPG adaptation of the show, but with a different ending based on earlier drafts of the ending of the show, due to the fact it released in March 1991 before the show's actual ending aired. It was re-released in 2022 by way of being included on the Japanese version of the Mega Drive Mini 2.

コミック・��ルーウォーター / THE SECRET OF COMIC BLUE WATER - An anthology of short Nadia manga created by various staff and other artists, released in 1992

ARE YOU THE ADVENTURER?.......THEN PURSUE ME.　THE SECRET OF THE BLUE WATER - PC adventure game developed by Gainax, released in 1992 for PC-98, followed by ports for X68000, FM TOWNS CD-ROM and various mobile devices, telling an original story set around episode 14 of the show.

PC Engine SUPER CD-ROM² game: Visual novel released in 1993, telling an original story set around episode 29 of the show, centring a new character named Physis.

You may have noticed that all of the above released in the years 1990-1993. After Neon Genesis Evangelion started development, Nadia as its own franchise basically died and mostly only lives on through its ties to Evangelion, with characters from Nadia being featured in games like the 1998 mahjong game Eva to Yukai na Nakamatachi and Super Robot Wars X, as well as Evangelion artbooks and calendars. However, there have been two new pieces of Nadia media released in the 21st century:

ふしぎの海のナディア 〜 Inherit the Blue Water 〜 is a game released in 2005 that adapts most of the story of the show, mostly taking the form of a visual novel interspersed with gameplay sections and clips from the show as cutscenes, while also weaving in an original story about a new character named Sofia Rockfeld, who Jean can end up in a relationship with depending on player decisions.

Wikipedia also lists a visual novel for mobile devices that released episodically in 2006, but is, as typical for mobile apps, no longer available and poorly documented.

ふしぎの海のナディア　コミックアンソロジー (Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: Comic Anthology) is another anthology of short manga by different artists, released in 2012, and the last new piece of official Nadia media to date, at least that I've been able to find.

Over the coming years, I hope to be able to write individual posts about each of these, and as I do so, I will add links to those posts to this one, although currently my Japanese knowledge is not good enough yet to be able to talk in-depth about the untranslated works, nor do I know if I'll have the time for all of them, so if anyone would like to help with that, it would be greatly appreciated.

[archoneddzs15]

Sega Mega Drive - Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

Title: Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / ふしぎの海のナディア

Developer/Publisher: Namco

Release date: 19 March 1991

Catalogue No.: T-14083

Genre: Adventure / RPG

Better known as Nadia The Secret of Blue Water in English (or Fushigi no Umi no Nadia in Japanese), this RPG from Namco surprises Mega Drive owners. After all, Nadia was quite a popular anime then, and most big-name licenses went the way of Nintendo.

The game starts with a slightly off-key rendition of the anime's main theme tune and a Mega Drive-powered version of the opening credits animation. Sadly, this is where things go downhill. Nadia is yet another game that relies upon its license to sell. It's not until you sit down and play this game do you realize that it's quite bland in all areas from looks to actual story. A great shame really. If Namco had made more effort with the game graphics and spiced up the story a little, this could have been a quality RPG.

[kennak]

株式会社ガイナックスは6月7日、東京地方裁判所に会社破産の申立をおこない、受理されたことを発表した。 ガイナックスは1984年に設立され、アニメ制作会社として活動していた企業だ。「ふしぎの海のナディア」や「新世紀エヴァンゲリオン」といったテレビアニメを手がけたことで知られるほか、娘育成ゲーム『プリンセスメーカー』シリーズの制作にも携わっていた。一方で1992年には樋口真嗣氏ら中核スタッフが退職。その後「新世紀エヴァンゲリオン」がヒットをあげたものの、紆余曲折を経たのち同作の監督を務めた庵野秀明氏も2007年に映像制作スタジオとして株式会社カラーを設立して独立している。昨今では経営難に伴い、カラーに版権が移管された同作をはじめ、多くの作品の版権が他社に移っていた。 今回ガイナックスは、5月29日に東京地方裁判所に会社破産の申立をおこなっていたことを明かし、申立が受理されたことを発表した。破産の理由として、2012年ごろから見通しの甘い飲食店経営、無計画なCG会社の設立��運営幹部個人への高額の無担保貸付、投資作品の失注等、経営陣・運営幹部の会社を私物化したかのような運営がおこなわれていたことが説明。経済状態が悪化していったという。 そうしたなかで地方に当該幹部やその関係者を代表としたガイナックスの社名を冠した関連会社が多数設立され、大量の退職者を出しスタジオとしてのアニメーション制作機能も失っていたとのこと。さらには2018年には当時の経営陣の承認のもと映像制作に知見のない人物への株式譲渡がおこなわれ、2019年、その人物が代表取締役に就任直後に未成年者への性加害で逮捕（Business Insider Japan）。多額の負債を抱える中、完全に運営能力を喪失するに至ったとされている。 それでも先述の株式会社カラーの善意による支援がおこなわれ、経営陣の刷新など立て直しが図られていたという。しかし多くの旧経営陣が株主として残る状況に加え、前体制時に積みあがっていた高額負債解消には至らなかったという。そして今年5月に債権回収会社から債権請求訴訟の提訴を受けるに至り、業務の継続は困難との判断から、このたびの破産の申し立てが行われたとのこと。 なおガイナックスの破産の発表に際してカラーも声明を公開。ガイナックスの内情を把握した段階ですでに手の施しようのない状況の債務超過を抱えている状態にあったそうだ。「40年弱の歴史を持つアニメーションスタジオがこのような最後を迎えてしまい、残念でなりません」と綴られている。

株式会社ガイナックス破産へ。スタジオカラーの助けもむなしく、「手の施しようのない状況の債務超過」のため - AUTOMATON

[herosone111]

以当年的技术做不出七彩变化的头发，我会考虑动画做成白色头发，或者白色略带浅紫色的光影，然后闪十字星形的彩色光点，或者按照性格做成橙色或者橙红色头发，不过做成橙色之类发色如何配合其他身体配色是个问题，我没学过配色，这需要专业人士才能改，不过已经做了这么多年，已经形成绿色头发的印象，估计改不了了。

这里的头发增加了那种透明的感觉，但是处理太复杂了，在当年做成电视动画的话会比较花钱。

个人并不喜欢这类女主角，例��《ふしぎの海のナディア》，因为会误导人，现实里很难有好女孩这么外向的，反正现实里你可以看到我做得不错，但是别人又怎么对我？停止幻想，接受现实。

[kib30735]

黑人女孩當主角有問題嗎？《ふしぎの海のナディア》動畫曾經推出電玩遊戲，那個時候連DEI都沒有，做出來都比目前滿口DEI的電玩遊戲公司好太多。如果DEI自認自己是維護世界和平的組織，我比較相信DEI只是一個只會勒索大企業的文化流氓，改稱文化黑幫會比較容易理解。