Hey Guys,

welcome to the new Netflix Anime ‘Children of the Whales’. When I started watching this series I didn’t know anything about it. For course I looked it up afterwards. There is a manga out already. It is called ‘Kujira no Kora wa Sajō ni Utau’ in Japan. VIZ media published it in America under the name ‘Children of the Whales’. The manga has 10 Volumes and is still going on. The Anime as 12 episodes and it seems that there will be two OVAs. I haven’t heard anything about a second season so far.
What I don’t is how much the first season covers of the manga. No clue.

A new world

The drawings are beautiful. I really love the way the anime looks. So beautiful. Like most fantasy stories this play is in world we don’t know. A world also our characters don’t know. The story takes place on a small island – this is not totally correct, but you will see when you watch the anime. It looks peaceful but also you get the feeling that something isn’t right there. The way the island is ruled is… wrong. Alone in the way the society is built is so much potential for problems and good stories.
So it is not really a surprise that my favorite character is the one that questioned all this stuff.

There is war out there

Of course the ‘peace’ get destroyed after they found a girl on one deserted island. They got attacked by soldiers. The Girl is the only one that knows what is really going on. Again in the society the girl lived in is so much potential for great stories. The whole series is full of potential great stories. But it stays… flat is not the right word.
The way they show the war and the meanings deaths. It is really great and you actually are so sad about the people you see dying and dying. You see the characters struggle with it. I love that part. I also love the inside of the main characters when people close to them die.
It is beautiful done.

Mysteries Nose (I didn’t found anywhere this is spelled)

I think the mystery stuff they have surrounding the islands. Is good and has a lot potential. I doesn’t want to say more about what is behind it, because I don’t want to spoiler the story. But I think that this stuff came to short and even shorter what it means to the characters. The secrets they find out in this season changes everything the characters believed in. This is not a little secret which doesn’t involve them. This secrets involve them, they are part of the secret.
They had few scenes were they actually shows exactly this but it is to short and to fast.

Watching or not

It is beautiful to look at. The characters are good and the story has a lot of potential. There can be great and amazing stories in it. Sadly in this season the for me interesting problems came way to short. But I hope that the two OVAs or a second season will take this problematic and make a great story out of it. So yeah… watch it – I think XP