#deep see aquarium magmell

[helmetjellyfish]

what are you remembered by?

[fishingfordreams]

manga recommendations pt. 3

memory, melancholy, and maturity

Totsukuni no Shoujo (The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún) by Nagabe

A harrowing and beautiful grim dark fairy tale set in a world populated with monstrous creatures that can curse people with a single touch. The story follows a young girl named Shiva and her otherworldly Teacher who live in a vacant village on the "outside." The story explores the dichotomy of light and darkness, good and evil, body and soul, and those who linger in the quiet spaces in between. Nagabe’s dreamy story book illustrations capture the fantastical and eerie world vividly, crafted together in fine lines and careful contrasts.

Dungeon Meshi (Dungeon in Delicious) by Ryoko Kui

A charming medieval fantasy story about, well, dungeons, dragons, and delicious food! The premise is simple: kill the magician of the dungeon and the golden kingdom shall be yours, or so the former king declared before fading to dust. And so, we follow a group of adventurers as they traverse the dungeon and, after losing their supplies and friend to a red-scaled dragon, meet a dwarf who teaches them how to prepare and cook monster ingredients. The story delights in monster designs and their anatomies and ecosystems, and boasts a diverse cast of characters that are as equally complex and well-developed.

MagMell Shinkai Suizokukan (Deep Sea Aquarium MagMell) by Kiyomi Sugishita

A gorgeously illustrated story following Koutarou Tenjou, a janitor and assistant keeper at a deep sea aquarium in Tokyo. The story quietly opens up a hidden, dreamlike world filled with strange and wonderful creatures that dwell in the dark depths of the sea. Sugishita beautifully captures the fleeting, tender moment of fondness and rumination that people experience while watching the majesty of the ocean and her inhabitants.

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad by Harold Sakuishi

An absolute classic! A soul-stirring, coming of age story about music, brotherhood, and the angst of adolescence. It features a group of colorful teenagers who come together to form a rock band and the story focuses on their love, trials, and tribulations as they struggle to fame. The protagonist, Yukio “Koyuki” Tanaka, embodies the raw, honest, confronting, and liberating feeling of self-discovery and self-expression that young people often go through. His growth is slow and subtle, but so genuine and measured, and he becomes the force that eventually pulls the groups’ sound together.

Medalist by Tsurumaikada

A heartfelt story that explores the familial, social, and economical pressures of competitive sports, specifically figure skating. We follow Inori Yuitsuka, a fifth grader who is desperate to become a skater but has been constantly criticized by those around her and told that she’s too old to begin training competitively. All except for down-on-his-luck former figure skater Tsukasa Akeuraji who sees her potential and decides to coach her with the promise of winning a medal. Despite the somber premise, this is an incredibly uplifting story about building confidence, realizing your self-worth, and pursuing your dreams regardless of when you decide to start. The athleticism and elegance of figure skating is also portrayed beautifully through dynamic and expressive artwork and paneling.

Holyland by Kouji Mori

An intense, character-driven story following high school student Yuu Kamishiro who, after being driven to isolation by the abuse of his peers and with no place in society, ventures out into the night in search of his "holyland." He finds acceptance through violence and solace in the lawless brutality of the streets. The author meditates on human nature and explores the nature of one's emotions, particularly grief and hatred, and how they define us. Make no mistakes though, this is also very much a martial arts story and Mori balances both the technical and impassionate aspects of combat seamlessly.

(Includes depictions of self-harm, depression, bullying, violence).

[rabbitfolly]

This is a random thing, but have you ever heard of the manga "Deep Sea Aquarium Magmell"? It's a series focused around a deep sea aquarium and the creatures that live there- seeing all your wonderful sea creature designs made me want to share that one with you!

I haven't heard of it since I don't read much anymore! But I will read anything that has homumado or kannazuki no miko coded GL aha...........

[shortdalee]

[This isn't in my usual manga rec format because, frankly, I'm tired and drained as fuck, but nonetheless:]

I highly recommend Magmell Shinkai Suizokukan (MangaDex). It's an interesting slice of life manga centered on deep-sea creatures. The protagonist's a young-ish boy who loves deep-sea creatures and gets a job working at an aquarium (Magmell) that enables its visitors go into the deep to see these animals in their natural habitat (while being respectful of the actual environment and the animals living in it).

It's been tagged as Mystery, but I wouldn't say it's hinged on mysteries and solving them. It's more that there's some unanswered questions, the main one being the protag's father who's apparently friends with Magmell's director, but for the most part, they're not the driving factor. Basically, speaking as someone who filters out Mystery stories, don't let the tag chase you away.

As the manga progresses, it starts including more and more stories from its side characters, both existing and new. I don't remember all of them because it's been a while, but recently, there's an arc that I think is doing a really great job of telling the story about a trans side character. I really like how before the most recent chapter where the author explicitly refers to the character as trans in-text (which is important) by having the character come out to his mom (which I don't personally think is necessary in general but was good in that we have a character definitively identifying as trans), they both explicitly and implicitly hint at it.

Spoiler for mom's reaction under the cut in case you need to know before you read it (which. understandable). BUT! Two of his coworkers already know that he's trans, and one of them's the director who hired him and let him "live as a man" while working there.

His mom, though, doesn't react well. She just dismisses it as him following a trend or whatever and doesn't take him seriously.

[helmetjellyfish]

dsam character info from sugishita’s peing.net answers

this is just a compilation of kiyomi sugishita’s responses to anonymous questions regarding the deep sea aquarium magmell main cast in general!

(please note that some of the links reference a character who first appears in volume 7! to avoid spoilers, i’ll put their information in a separate reblog and hide it under a read more.)

so far, these include:

- canon birthdays

- approximate ages and heights (set at the beginning of dsam/5 years after magmell’s opening)

- color motifs

- what deep sea creature each character would be

- TBA (will be updated with any additional responses!)

🦑 Tenjou Koutarou (天城 航太郎)

Birthday: February 19th (2/19)

Age: ~20 years old

Height: ~170 cm

Color motif: Blue

Deep sea creature: Deep sea isopod

🐋 Osezaki Minato (大瀬崎 湊人)

Birthday: October 30th (10/30)

Age: ~40 years old

Height: ~178 cm

Color motif: Red

Deep sea creature: Sperm whale

🎣‬ Shirahama Shinya (白浜 深夜)

Birthday: May 17th (5/17)

Age: ~23 years old

Height: ~177 cm

Color motif: Light green (”yellow-green”)

Deep sea creature: Longfin mako shark

🪐 Nagaizumi Shizuka (長泉 湖)

Birthday: July 3rd (7/3)

Age: ~25 years old

Height: ~156 cm

Color motif: Orange

Deep sea creature: Shortspine spurdog shark

👓 Yui Asahi (由比 朝陽)

Birthday: December 26th (12/26)

Age: ~26 years old

Height: ~172 cm

Color motif: Purple

Deep sea creature: Chiroteuthis squid (known as "Yurei ika/Phantom squid" in Japanese)

🔪 Dougashima Ran (堂ヶ島 嵐)

Birthday: April 11th (4/11)

Age: ~21 years old

Height: ~180 cm

Color motif: Yellow

Deep sea creature: Longnose lancetfish

💉 Haruno Izuho “Haru” (春野 出帆 “春”)

Birthday: March 5th (3/5)

Age: ~37 years old

Height: ~191 cm

Color motif: Gray

Deep sea creature: Greenland shark