Top Scuba Diving Anime Recommendations

Grand Blue

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming.

Studio: Zero-G
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

A new life begins for Kitahara Iori as he begins his college career near the ocean in Izu city, full of excitement for his new life. He will be moving into his Uncle's diving store "Grand Blue." There he finds the beautiful ocean, beautiful women, and men that love diving and alcohol. Will Iori be able to live his dream college life?

Tags: School Club , Coastal , Slapstick , Nudity , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Scuba Diving , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Outdoor Activities , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Incest , Bar , Bisexual , Crossdressing , Educational , Yandere , Tennis , Cosplay , Idol

Josee to Tora to Sakanatachi

Also known as Josee, the Tiger and the Fish.

Studio: bones
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

The story centers on the relationship between Tsuneo and Josee. Tsuneo is a university student, and Josee is a young girl who has rarely gone out of the house by herself due to her being unable to walk. The two meet when Tsuneo finds Josee's grandmother taking her out for a morning walk.



Tags: Disability , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Drawing , Scuba Diving , College , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Mermaid , Unrequited Love , Coastal , Time Skip

Dr. STONE: NEW WORLD Part 2

Also known as Dr. STONE New World Part 2.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Years ago, astronaut Byakuya left behind precious materials in the belief that his son, the scientifically-gifted Senkuu, would one day find them. In the present, the Kingdom of Science's Kohaku and Ginrou have infiltrated the harem of the Petrification Kingdom’s leader with the help of Amaryllis, a local girl. At first, their mission progresses without a hitch. Unfortunately, an error enacted by Kohaku and Ginrou leads Minister Ibara and the Island’s strongest warrior, Moz, to identify the intruding duo as enemies.

Even worse, Moz tails Amaryllis when she returns to inform Senkuu of the news, discovering the scientist's secret hideout. However, Moz's agenda does not align with Ibara's—he wants to dethrone the minister and keep the petrification device for himself. If Senkuu plays his cards right, he could gain a powerful ally and win the war once and for all.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Survival , Educational , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Conspiracy , Primarily Adult Cast , War , Primarily Male Cast , Coastal , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Crossdressing , Ships , Guns , Travel , Asexual , CGI , Amnesia , Espionage , Spearplay , Femboy , Scuba Diving , Bisexual

Grand Blue Season 2

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming Season 2.

Studio: Zero-G , Liber
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

University is back in session for Iori, and so are the booze-fueled parties! Between diving club shenanigans, a surprise from his sister, and wild tests of courage, normal college life is anything but. Dive back into the madness with Iori and his beloved crew of lively splash artists.



Tags: Seinen , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Otaku Culture , School Club , Ensemble Cast , Sadism , Male Protagonist , Coastal , Slapstick , Nudity , Scuba Diving , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Human Pet , Femdom , Bar , Femboy , Gyaru , Kuudere , Tsundere , Ojou-sama , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Family Life , Yandere , Boys' Love , Bisexual

Shiroi Suna no Aquatope

Also known as The aquatope on white sand.

Studio: P.A.WORKS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Kukuru Misakino is a 18-year-old girl who works at an aquarium and she encounters a former idol who lost her place in Tokyo and escaped to Okinawa named Fuuka Miyazawa. Kukuru and Fuuka spend their days at the aquarium, their hearts filled with their own passions. But their precious place is about to be shut down forever. The girls face their dreams and reality, loneliness and friendships, bonds and conflicts... This summer is about to turn a glimmering, new page.



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Work , Animals , Environmental , Coastal , Iyashikei , Educational , Primarily Female Cast , Office Lady , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast , Found Family , Yuri , Urban Fantasy , Family Life , Mopeds , Scuba Diving , Idol

Grand Blue Season 3

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming Season 3.

Studio: Zero-G , Saber Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Iori's college shenanigans head overseas! Just as he's finally starting to get the hang of university life, crashing at his uncle's dive shop while balancing the booze-fueled antics of his diving club, Iori's cousin enlists him to help run a new dive shop in Palau. Between crystal-clear dives and his diving group that can't resist partying it up and stripping down, Iori's in for a wild summer.



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Nudity , Family Life , Surreal Comedy , College , Primarily Adult Cast , School Club , Male Protagonist , Coastal , Slapstick , Tsundere , Bar , Seinen , Scuba Diving , Otaku Culture , Heterosexual , Fake Relationship , Sadism , Estranged Family , Female Protagonist , Femdom , Foreign , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Harem , Incest , Yandere , Boys' Love

Lupin III: Cagliostro no Shiro

Also known as Lupin The 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mystery

In the twilight of his career, master thief Lupin the Third's latest and greatest caper has hit a snag. What should've been bags of cash from a national casino turns out to be expert counterfeits! Together with his partner-in-crime Jigen, Lupin heads to the remote European nation of Cagliostro to exact revenge. Not everything goes as planned; the two encounter Clarisse, a royal damsel in distress being forced to marry the sinister Count Cagliostro against her will. Saving her won't be easy, however, as Lupin and Jigen -- together with Lupin's unpredictable ex-girlfriend Fujiko and the swordsman Goemon -- must fight their way through a trap-filled castle, a deadly dungeon, and an army of professional assassins! Can Lupin rescue the girl, evade the cuffs of his long-time nemesis Inspector Zenigata, and uncover the secret treasures of The Castle of Cagliostro?



Tags: Crime , Conspiracy , Fugitive , Anti-Hero , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Police , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , Class Struggle , Assassins , Swordplay , Scuba Diving , Samurai

Long Zu

Also known as Dragon Raja -The Blazing Dawn-.

Studio: GARDEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

Lu Mingfei never expected to live an extraordinary life. He was content with his average achievements and took pride in his skill in Starcraft. However, all that is upended when he suddenly receives a scholarship to study in Chicago at a place called Cassell College.
It all seems too good to be true, this can only be a scam! Little does he know, that when he does eventually accept the offer, it is but the beginning of the rest of his life, and the college's obscurity will be the least of his concerns once they start telling him about the dragons...

Note: Episode 0 aired with a runtime of 49 minutes.

Tags: Dragons , College , Lost Civilization , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Guns , Mythology , Scuba Diving , CGI , Swordplay , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Time Manipulation

THE Big O

Also known as The Big O.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Paradigm City is a place without a past. 40 years ago, something happened that wiped the memories of everyone in it. Unfortunately, the people of Paradigm City were very busy before then, making Megadueses (giant robots) and monsters. People who were born after the memory wipe are gaining/recovering memories of the past and using them to build newer threats. With the help of The Big O (a faithful giant robot), his butler Norman and the android Dorothy, Roger Smith keeps Paradigm City safe. As problems mount and more memories surface, Roger's past and Paradigm's future begin to become suspect...

Tags: Amnesia , Super Robot , Philosophy , Noir , Episodic , Robots , Dystopian , Butler , Foreign , Cyberpunk , Real Robot , Politics , Kuudere , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Steampunk , Chimera , Police , Kaiju , Scuba Diving , Body Horror , Seinen

Amanchu!

Also known as Amanchu!.

Studio: J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hikari Kohinata is an overwhelmingly cheerful and outgoing 15-year-old girl who has spent all her life in a small and beautiful seaside town on the Izu peninsula. On the first day of high school, she meets Futaba Oki, a slightly introverted girl who has just moved from Tokyo. Before she knows it, Futaba gets dragged along into Hikari's passion for scuba diving. And from there, Futaba gradually starts to come out of her shell, and learns how to take challenges and dive into the ocean of life.



Tags: Coastal , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Scuba Diving , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Shounen

Non Non Biyori: Vacation

Also known as Non Non Biyori Vacation.

Studio: SILVER LINK.
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Even when you're fortunate enough to live in a place as beautiful as the country village of Asahigaoka, you should never turn down the chance to explore someplace else. So, when Suguru wins a free trip to Okinawa just as the summer vacation is coming to an end, the town's entire school… all 5 students and 1 teacher, plus the local candy shop owner… can hardly wait for their 3-day trip to begin! Between kayaking, swimming and meeting new people, there's always something fun happening, but the best part of all is that big city girl Hotaru and her new small-town friends all get to explore the wonders of Japan's famous vacation destination together.



Tags: Iyashikei , Rural , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Outdoor Activities , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Drawing , Badminton , Scuba Diving , Kuudere

Tsumiki no Ie

Also known as La Maison en Petits Cubes.

Studio: Robot
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

An old man lives in a town that has become submerged in water. As the water level rises, he's forced to build additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay above water. One day he accidentally drops his favorite pipe into the lower levels of his home, and decides to rent scuba diving equipment in order to go searching for it. As he descends through his sunken home, the old man recalls memories of the past in each room.



Tags: No Dialogue , Environmental , Dystopian , Achronological Order , Post-Apocalyptic , Scuba Diving , Elderly Protagonist , Coming of Age , Fishing , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Tragedy , Family Life , Ships , Marriage , Photography

Amanchu! Advance

Also known as Amanchu! ~Advance~.

Studio: J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hikari Kohinata and Futaba Ooki have together found joy in many things through scuba diving and the most everyday of events. Hikari was born and brought up in a small oceanside town on Izu, and Futaba moved there from Tokyo, but the two polar opposites met at Yumegaoka High and instantly hit it off. The always-reserved Futaba found her perfect foil in the cheery and optimistic Hikari, and their friendship gave her the courage to take the first step and experience many of the smaller joys in life. She also took the Open Water Diver exam and passed, and now she has her sights set on the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.



Tags: Iyashikei , Scuba Diving , Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Female Protagonist , Educational , Outdoor Activities , School Club , School , Coastal , Achronological Order , Heterosexual , Shounen , Ghost

RD Sennou Chousashitsu

Studio: Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Sci-Fi

2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since mankind developed the Network society. It was anticipated that this new infrastructure would realize a utopia where people connected with each other at the level of consciousness. However, new social problems such as personal data leaks and proliferation of manipulated information began to surface. Nevertheless, people still relied on the Network to exchange information, and proved unable to opt to abandon it.

In due course, a new Network realm with more effective security measures was developed. This was called Meta Real Network, usually abbreviated as "the Metal."

The Metal accommodated personal memory data within protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves called bubble shells and eventually pervaded the everyday lives of people.

However, people gradually learned to release and explode their instincts within the secure environment of the Metal. The unleashed instincts pushed each individual's consciousness to drown in the sea of information and to be exposed to the pressures of desire. Meanwhile, norms and regulations continued to bind their real world lives. Thus, strange friction between the two worlds began to manifest themselves as aberrations beyond the bounds of the imaginable.

Experts who challenged the deep sea of the Metal to investigate and decipher such aberrations were called cyber divers.

This is a story of a cyber diver, Masamichi Haru, who investigates the incidents that lie between Reality and the Metal.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Scuba Diving , Episodic , Coastal , Disability , Virtual World , Age Regression , Rehabilitation , Environmental , Robots , Artificial Intelligence

Grand Blue Season 4

Status: Not_Yet_Released
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

The fourth season of Grand Blue.

Tags: Coastal , School Club , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Scuba Diving , Inseki , Incest , Tsundere , Anti-Hero , Cohabitation , Heterosexual , Female Harem , College , Female Protagonist

City Hunter 3

Also known as City Hunter 3.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery

Ryou Saeba and his long-suffering partner Kaori are out to make the streets of Shinjuku safe for the weak, the poor, the down- trodden, the... Well, actually, Ryou’s just hoping for a little mokkori from a grateful client. And Kaori’s just hoping her 100-ton hammer is big enough to get Ryou’s mind off the girls and on his job. With a bevy of beautiful women and a host of dastardly villains hanging around, City Hunter’s got to be ready for any kind of action!



Tags: Episodic , Police , Slapstick , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Guns , Male Protagonist , Meta , Detective , Cars , Shounen , Bar , Swimming , Scuba Diving

Giant Gorg

Also known as Giant Gorg.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Austral Island is located 2,000 km south from Samoa islands. The existence of the island was removed from the official records, and Tagami Yu made a journey to search for the reason.

He sailed for the island with Dr. Waive who was his father's friend, Doris who is the daughter of Dr. Waive, and Captain who is the friend of Dr. Waive. On their way to the island, GAIL, the international conglomerate, and gangster, Cougar Connection lead by Lady Lynx attacked them.

They managed to arrive at the island, but suddenly a mysterious monster began to attack them. When they became ready for death, a blue giant robot appeared. It destroyed the monster and saved them. Although it was an existence far beyond human knowledge, it reminded Yu of something warm and familiar.

It was Giant Gorg which is called "Messenger of the God" by the inhabitants of the island. Escaping from the attack of GAIL's assault team, Gorg guided Yu into the underworld. There, he found alien's relic and an alien who woke up after 30,000 years' sleep.



Tags: Lost Civilization , Foreign , Super Robot , Aliens , Orphan , Criminal Organization , Male Protagonist , Tanks , Guns , Religion , Ships , Aviation , Scuba Diving , Animals

GR: Giant Robo

Studio: A.C.G.T.
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The year is 20XX. Mysterious huge robots called "Giant Robo (GR)" started to appear all over the world and destroy cities. The earth was covered with fear. And their next target is Japan! The hero of this animation Daisaku Kusama, who works in a diving shop, encounters a mysterious girl, simply called V who leads him to make a contract with an enormous robot "Giant Robo 1 (GR1)" at the ancient ruins (Minami Yonaguni Island) in Okinawa.

He made a contract with UNISOM (main organization) and was approved to be a commander of GR1. Thus his battle has begun against GRO (antagonist organization) and creates a lot of dramas. Before long, Giant Robo of the 21st century will ask the world the true meaning of its power.



Tags: Conspiracy , Lost Civilization , Shounen , Super Robot , Male Protagonist , Ships , Terrorism , Tragedy , Foreign , Military , Gore , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Cosmic Horror , Scuba Diving , Rural , Urban , Heterosexual , Robots

Kimagure Orange☆Road Pilot

Also known as Kimagure Orange Road TV Pilot.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A special made before the rest of the KOR anime to test the possibility of making more. Essentially an alternate TV version of episode 46, Kyousuke and Madoka go to the beach only to be trapped alone together.

Tags: Shounen , Super Power , Surfing , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Scuba Diving , Female Protagonist

Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto Special

Also known as Umi Monogatari: Faithful Hearts.

Studio: ZEXCS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance , Supernatural

An extra episode of Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Itekureta Koto.

Tags: Coastal , Magic , Scuba Diving