Anime like Kaitei Shounen Marine

Nanatsu no Umi no Tico

Also known as Tico and Friends.

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Slice of Life

Nanami Simpson is a young girl. Her mother dies when she is young, and she goes to live with her Father, Scott Simpson, on board a Marine Research Vessel , the Peperonchino. Her Father is a Marine Biologist, and he is in search of a creature known as the Glowing Whale. When He finds the bones of one of these, he is saddened, and resolves to change his mission towards preserving and caring for the creatures. Nanami befriends an Orca which she names Tico, and She goes swimming with it every day. Eventually, she learns to breathe Underwater which astounds her Father. Nanami nearly drowns one day, and one of the glowing whales saves her from certain death and returns her to the vessel, where her Father finally gets to see it.



Tags: Travel , Ships , Environmental , Animals , Outdoor Activities , Foreign , Kids , Ojou-sama , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Educational

Mirai Shounen Conan

Also known as Future Boy Conan.

Studio: Nippon Animation , GKIDS
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

July 2008. Mankind was faced with the threat of extinction. An ultra-magnetic weapon, far more devastating than any nuclear weapon known, destroyed half the world in an instant. The earth's crust was rocked by massive movements, the earth was thrown off its axis, and the five continents were torn completely apart and sank deep below the sea...

The attempt by a number of people to flee to outer space failed. Their spaceships were forced back to the earth and vanished with their hopes shattered. But one of the spaceships narrowly escaped destruction and crash-landed on a small island which had miraculously survived the devastation. The crew members of the spaceship settled there, as if they were seeds sown on the island.

After years, a boy was born. He was a new life in the desert, a ray of light in the darkness of the annihilated earth...



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Fugitive , Politics , Survival , Ships , Kids , Lost Civilization , Steampunk , Primarily Child Cast , Male Protagonist , Aviation , Slapstick , Classic Literature

Gake no Ue no Ponyo

Also known as Ponyo.

Studio: Studio Ghibli , Dentsu , d-rights , Toho , Walt Disney Studios
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship and discovery before Ponyo's father, a powerful sorcerer, forces her to return to her home in the sea. But Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the delicate balance of nature and triggers a gigantic storm. Only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.



Tags: Natural Disaster , Primarily Child Cast , Environmental , Kids , Coastal , Rural , Magic , Urban Fantasy , Anthropomorphism , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Ships , Gods , Mermaid , Swimming , Chibi

Tobe! Kujira no Peek

Also known as Fly! Peek the Whale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama

As a little boy Kei saw his fisherman father lost at sea only seconds after catching his parting gift of a pan flute carved from whalebone. A few years later young Kei and his kid brother Moito discover a baby whale trapped by a rock in a shallow inlet near the Spanish coast.

Tags: Animals , Primarily Child Cast , Environmental , Rural , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Kids , Bullying

Coo: Tooi Umi kara Kita Coo

Studio: Toei Animation , Victor Entertainment , Kadokawa Shoten , Pony Canyon , Nippon Television Network , Yomiuri TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Slice of Life

After a storm hits their island, Yusuke (driving his jet-ski) finds a baby dinosaur. He show it to his dad, they keep it and call it Coo. But here are other parties interested in a 65 milion year old creature ...



Tags: Foreign , Dinosaurs , Outdoor Activities , Swimming , Tanned Skin