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| rdfs:comment | - Daphne in the Brilliant Blue(光と水のダフネHikari to Mizu no Dafune) is a 2004 anime series animated by the studio J.C.Staff and produced by GENCO. It was licensed by Geneon USA in 2004. However, Geneon USA had ceased operations in September 2007 and lost all their titles. In 2009, Sentai Filmworks had picked up the license and re-released the series in two complete collection sets. A manga version was drawn by mangaka and character designer Satoshi Shiki titled "I - Daphne in the Brilliant Blue"(アイ〜光と水のダフネ〜Ai ~Hikari to Mizu no Dafune~), featured in Young King OURs magazine.
- In an unspecified future year, long after global warming has inundated the world, a young girl named Maia Mizuki is expecting to get a job at the prestigious Oceans Agency. She's an obvious shoo-in for one of the limited number of positions available, having passed the grueling qualifying exam (which is offered only once a year) with flying colors. But she is inexplicably rejected and within days finds herself not only jobless but homeless, too. An amnesiac orphan whose only living relative, her grandfather, died shortly before, Maia has no one to turn to, and faster than she can comprehend she finds herself stumbling penniless (thanks to a pickpocket) through the seedier side of the city she's lived in all her life. And just when it seems like things can't get worse, a criminal takes her
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| RomajiTitle | - Ai to kioku no hibi
- Aka-chan ni Kanpai
- Chakachaka banban
- Daihadou
- Hikari to mizu no Daphne
- Ikari wo Agete
- Kaette kita abarenbo
- Kakumo nagaki taizai
- Maia no ichiban nagai hi
- Nani ga Maia ni okotta?
- Neres hodo suteki na shobai wa nai?
- ORE Dake ni Ashita ha Nai
- Roujin to UMA
- SPEED ni karada o hare!
- Sekai ga Fujou Shita Hi
- Sensuikan yomogi ichigo fujosezu
- Shizuka Naru Kattou
- Siberia choutakkyu
- Yoru no daisosasen
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| Name | - Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
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| Title | - Ai 1 - Hikari to Mizu no Daphne
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| OriginalAirDate | - 2004-01-15
- 2004-01-22
- 2004-01-29
- 2004-02-05
- 2004-02-12
- 2004-02-19
- 2004-02-26
- 2004-03-04
- 2004-03-11
- 2004-03-18
- 2004-03-25
- 2004-04-01
- 2004-04-08
- 2004-04-15
- 2004-04-29
- 2004-05-06
- 2004-05-13
- 2004-05-20
- 2004-05-27
- 2004-06-03
- 2004-06-10
- 2004-06-17
- 2004-06-24
- 2004-07-03
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| ShortSummary | - 7776000.0
- Title tribute to The Hunt for Red October.
May, Wong, Chang and Lee steal the Agnes back. Maia gets taken hostage in an attempt to stop them. Plans for a less than lethal recovery by Nereids goes awry. Maia rescues the treasure hunters from a potentially watery grave.
- Title tribute to The Long Goodbye?
When Maia passes a laurel tree it sparks old memories from her past. Everyone decides to spend an extra day in Siberia looking for clues about Maia's past.
- Title tribute to Speed
Maia takes the wheel of a test vehicle when Shizuka's childhood friend, Millie, is injured. Maia gets caught in some industrial espionage.
- Title tribute to Sophie's Choice?
A con artist plays with Shizuka's heart.
- Title tribute to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane??
Maia is unable to concentrate on her new mission which is to find a girl that has been kidnapped by the slave traders. Shizuka is injured due to Maia's lack of concentration.
- Title tribute to There's No Business Like Show Business.
Maia and Shizuka solve the mystery of Martin's missing wedding money. Trouble is lying in wait for Rena in the form of a blonde woman.
- Title tribute to Die Hard?
A grade-school boy runs away from home and Maia is sent to Siberia to find him. The branch manager in that city holds a grudge against Rena. A mechanic is paid off to sabotage the private jet of a wealthy CEO and then murdered. Terrorists take over the wave negation towers in Kamchatka.
- Title tribute to Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang?.
Maia has to drive the experimental hovercar for Team Albatross. Someone is sabotaging the car so the Nereids try to find out who is doing this in order to keep Maia safe.
- Title tribute to The Day the Earth Stood Still?
The 100-year anniversary of the underwater cities raising to the surface is celebrated. The 100-year memorial service for the city of Elpida is also held. Maia, Tsukasa and Millie have a race to show off the Ocean Agency's new hovercraft.
- Gloria is told she has a week to live. Tsukasa gets elected to help Gloria meet her ideal man.
- Title tribute to The Longest Day?
Maia is having the worst day of her life. She gets rejected by the Ocean Agency, gets kicked out of her house, can’t find a job that offers room and board, gets her wallet stolen and gets taken hostage and then shot.
- Maia is involved in a detainee exchange that goes bad. The housing agency confiscates all her belongs. She joins Nereids, the all-around service provider.
- Title tribute to Escape From New York?
Maia is told the reason behind her false memories. Tony tells the girls of Nereids about Maia's capture. Shizuka, Yu and Gloria quit Nereids on account of Rena's apparent cold-heartedness. Tsukasa returns from Greenland City and is immediately taken by Shizuka to help rescue Maia from the Ocean Agency.
- DVD bonus. Title tribute to Heaven Can Wait?
While helping Gloria on a freelance job, Gloria and Maia switch bodies.
- Maia and the boy are caught in the plot to kill a wealthy CEO. Rena and Shizuka track down the people behind the plot. Maia must pilot and land the aircraft carrying 1000 passengers in the confines of a very large water holding facility.
- Title tribute to In the Heat of the Night
Maia gets partnered with Gloria and Yu and discovers the tense relationship they have. Car thieves kidnap Maia as Yu and Gloria are chasing a suspicious truck.
- Title tribute to All That Jazz?
The branch manager's daughter discovers he has been lying to her about his role at work. The gang catches a group of poachers.
- DVD bonus. Title tribute to Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).
The ladies make a PR video.
- Title tribute to Terms of Endearment?
A band of slave traders captures Maia. The same traders that the Nereids' raid ruined. Millie and Tony Long, a guy that has appeared watching Maia from the shadows many time in previous episodes, save her. As Maia recovers she dreams of her past in the city of Elpida, Tony confirms Maia is the soul survivor of the city. The Information Division of the Ocean Agency then kidnaps Maia to insure she can say nothing about past events.
- Kevin forwards the coordinates of Elpida to the Yomogi-1. Tony gives May, Wong, Chang and Lee the use of an attack sub. The Ocean Agency trails the Yomogi-1 to Elpida. While the treasure hunters chase off the Ocean Agency's pursuit vehicle, Maia descends into the shell of the city proper. Once inside memories flood her mind. Suddenly she recalls the outbreak from the biological facility. She finds the time capsule she and her brother buried and then realizes the person that raised her as her grandfather was really her older brother.
- Title tribute to Once Upon a Time in China or Once Upon a Time in the West?
The stress of almost certain death in her rescue of the treasure hunters triggered Maia to remember an event from her past. She goes to Siberia to look for the time capsule she and her big brother buried under a laurel tree.
- Title tribute to Anchors Aweigh?
Wong, Chang and Lee along with their rescuer, Mai, seek revenge on Nereids for putting the three brothers in prison. Nereids confiscates the submarine May stole.
- The girls go to Siberia City where slave traders kidnap Shizuka. Maia has no recollection of being in Siberia before but knows the fastest way to intercept the fleeing kidnappers.
- Title tribute to The Old Man and the Sea?
Since the submarine is just sitting around and costing a fortune, Maia goes out and finds them a job. This job will also double as a training mission for the crew. Maia and an old man go looking for a sea monster. The Yomogi-1 is disguised as a sea monster.
- Title tribute to Three Men and a Baby?
Yu finds an abandoned baby at her door. Who would do such a thing? Gloria is against taking the child to the police.
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| EnglishTitle | - 1.0
- I'm the Only One Without a Tomorrow / Only I Don't Have Tomorrow
- Everyday Life of an Eye and Recollection / Terms of Endangerment
- All That, Papa
- Chaka Chaka Bang Bang
- Conflicts Winding Down / Shizuka's Choice
- Daphne In The Brilliant Blue
- Escape From Kamchatka
- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Nereids
- Giving Hatred / Anger's Aweigh
- Heaven Can Wait For Maia Mizuki
- The Great Nighttime Manhunt / In the Heat of the Night
- Like this for a Long Visit / The Long Stay!
- Maia's Longest Day
- Risk Everything For Speed! / The Speeding
- The Elderly and UMA / The Old Kook and the Sea
- The Great Surge / Die Hard, Play Hard
- The Hooligan's Return / Call Me Rough Neck
- There's No Business Like Nereid's Business
- Once upon a time in Siberia / Once Upon a Time in Siberia
- What Happened to Maia? / Whatever Happened to Baby Maia?
- The Day the World Surfaced / The Day Earth Floated Away
- Siberian Special Vacation / Siberian Super Vacation!
- Defeated by a Baby / Five Women with Guns and a Baby
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| Licensor | - Sentai Filmworks
- Tokyo Night Train, then Madman Entertainment
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| KanjiTitle | - 帰ってきた暴れん坊
- ワンス·アポン·ア·タイム·イン·シベリア
- 「かくも長き滞在」
- アイと追憶の日々
- エスケープ·フロム·カムチャッカ
- オレだけに明日はない
- オール·ザット·パパ
- シベリア超特休
- スピードに体を張れ!
- チャカチャカバンバン
- ネレイスほど素敵な商売はない?
- マイアのいちばん長い日
- 世界が浮上した日
- 何がマイアに起ったか?
- 光と水のダフネ
- 夜の大捜査戦
- 大波動
- 大波動 2
- 怒りを上げて
- 潜水艇よもぎ一号浮上せず
- 老人とUMΑ
- 赤ちゃんに完敗!
- 静香なる葛藤
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| abstract | - Daphne in the Brilliant Blue(光と水のダフネHikari to Mizu no Dafune) is a 2004 anime series animated by the studio J.C.Staff and produced by GENCO. It was licensed by Geneon USA in 2004. However, Geneon USA had ceased operations in September 2007 and lost all their titles. In 2009, Sentai Filmworks had picked up the license and re-released the series in two complete collection sets. A manga version was drawn by mangaka and character designer Satoshi Shiki titled "I - Daphne in the Brilliant Blue"(アイ〜光と水のダフネ〜Ai ~Hikari to Mizu no Dafune~), featured in Young King OURs magazine.
- In an unspecified future year, long after global warming has inundated the world, a young girl named Maia Mizuki is expecting to get a job at the prestigious Oceans Agency. She's an obvious shoo-in for one of the limited number of positions available, having passed the grueling qualifying exam (which is offered only once a year) with flying colors. But she is inexplicably rejected and within days finds herself not only jobless but homeless, too. An amnesiac orphan whose only living relative, her grandfather, died shortly before, Maia has no one to turn to, and faster than she can comprehend she finds herself stumbling penniless (thanks to a pickpocket) through the seedier side of the city she's lived in all her life. And just when it seems like things can't get worse, a criminal takes her hostage and she is shot by the women chasing him. Maia comes to some hours later on the couch of Nereids ("Neres" in the original Japanese), a troubleshooting agency which is staffed by the women. Manipulated into helping with their case against the criminal and her brother, Maia shows quick wit and ingenuity in the field and soon finds herself offered both a job and a place to live at Nereids. Although her days seem to alternate between boring scut work and life-threatening danger, and her coworkers are often rude and volatile, Maia (to her surprise) starts to find a certain satisfaction in her job -- although she is intent on reapplying to the Oceans Agency when the next set of positions open up in a year's time. But when a company vacation to tropical Siberia Island seems to awaken memories she had thought forever lost, Maia begins to wonder what secrets her forgotten past holds, and what they may do to her hopes for the future.
* After the End: The story takes place after the world's been flooded. Only five or so cities exist.
* Against the Setting Sun
* Amazon Brigade: Nereids
* American Accents: used liberally
* Arc Words: The "tree by the water" incantation, "Daphne"
* Armor Is Useless: The staff of Nereids -- including Maia -- all strip down to disturbingly skimpy and improbable outfits when they go into the field. Half-heartedly justified by the characters needing to dive underwater frequently.
* Badass Normal: Pretty much all the adult women in Nereids
* Barbie Doll Anatomy
* Bifauxnen: Tsukasa, pretending to be a guy in one episode
* Big Fancy House
* Bird Run: Maia does it as a childn
* Blasting It Out of Their Hands
* Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Gloria and Yu; Yu prefers a Boot to the Head to the Paper Fan of Doom, though.
* Catch Phrase: Gloria's "Ha-ha and ha!", at least in the English dub. Maia's little "why me?" moan/whimper may count as well.
* Charles Atlas Superpower: Yu
* Cool Ship: The Yomogi-1, a submarine the girls "acquired" from a certain band of dumb criminals.
* Debut Queue
* Die Hard on an X: two-part episode "Die Hard, Play Hard"
* Door Step Baby: Left on Yu's doorstep. Ultimately subverted.
* The Dulcinea Effect: Gender flipped. Shizuka finds a guy injuried near trash cans and quickly becomes attached to and protective of him. The guy's a con artist and calls this his 'lonely engimatic spy routine.
* Evil Laugh
* False Camera Effects: Particularly the Lens Flare.
* The Family for the Whole Family: The team of half-siblings -- see Running Gag.
* Fan Service (Vast, vast amounts of it)
* Finagle's Law (Vast, vast amounts of it)
* First Kiss (Gloria and Tsukasa)
* Five-Man Band (Women, actually):
* The Hero (Rena)
* The Smart Guy (Shizuka)
* The Lancer (Yu)
* The Big Guy (Gloria)
* The Chick (Maia)
* Flashback to Catchphrase (In the eleventh episode, showing Maia's recovery from her amnesia, her grandfather recites the "tree near the water" incantation when she's upset about her lack of progress recovering.)
* Flung Clothing (In particular, Yu is shown in the opening credits literally ripping her outer clothing off to reveal her "work clothes".)
* Freaky Friday Flip (Gloria and Maia, in one of the Omake episodes.)
* Voices Are Mental (Lampshaded)
* The Future
* Gondor Calls for Aid: Every ally (and Friendly Enemy) comes to Maia's aid when she's kidnapped.
* Government Conspiracy: Maia is from a city that was sealed off by the other cities. And by 'sealed off' I mean they stationed submarines at the gates and shoot anyone coming out. It was because of a plague outbreak they didn't want to spread to other cities. Afterwards they said it merely 'failed to surface'. Maia could reveal the truth if she recovered her memories and this would be 'embarrasing' so they make her life shit.
* Hair Colors (Shizuka's purple; Rena's red and Gloria's blonde may well be "real", though.)
* Here We Go Again (Subverted: In the last minutes of the last episode, we see the Ocean Agency exam held a year after the one that started the series; a girl who appears to be Maia with the same applicant number clocks in with as good a score on the field exercise as Maia had a year previously -- but the moment she reports in, we can see it's someone else entirely, and Tsukasa subsequently worries about Maia making the application deadline.)
* Hidden Eyes (Maia, several times.)
* Holographic Terminal (Desktop and larger systems all seem to use projected screens rather than physical ones.)
* Homage (The two-part episode "Die Hard, Play Hard" manages to blend homages to both Die Hard and, weirdly enough, gonzo disaster movie parody Airplane!!)
* Idiosyncratic Episode Naming (Many episode titles are plays on the names of famous movies or literary works: "The Old Kook and the Sea", "Anger's Aweigh", "Die Hard, Play Hard", "Five Heavily Armed Women and a Baby"; this editor is unsure if this is specific to the dub.)
* Impossibly Cool Clothes
* Laser Sight
* Limited Wardrobe (Almost every character who appears in more than one scene. Oddly, minor character Tsukasa seems to have a realistically diverse wardrobe. Even more oddly, the contents of Maia's closet are shown to be extensive and widely varied -- but she only ever wears either the Nereids Battle Bikini or a somewhat formal-looking pink-and-white dress -- or both at once.)
* Mascot (Mammo, for Siberia City.)
* Master of Disguise (Tsukasa, who manages to pass as a boy and Maia at different points.)
* The Men in Black: They work for the Ocean Agency and kidnap Maia near the end.
* Mistaken for Dying (Gloria)
* New Eden (Variant, a century before the opening of the story)
* Not with the Safety On, You Won't: How Maia was captured in the second episode.
* Panty Fighter (Effectively)
* Promotion to Parent: Maia's grandfather is actually her brother who defrosted sixty years before she did.
* Running Gag (The gang of criminals who are all half-siblings but look nothing like each other.)
* That Other Wiki list several:
* Rena deducting pay off salary for any botches, usually Gloria or Maia.
* Yu hitting Gloria when in disagreements.
* Maia hitting or falling on her head.
* Maia being kidnapped by the Wong-Chang-Lee brothers as bait.
* Yagi being terrified by Yu's presence.
* Hanaoka's daughter getting angry at her father.
* May and the Wong-Chang-Lee brothers taking the submarine back from Nereids who do the same.
* Shout-Out (Several, including a blatant one to Star Trek in the second episode, and another to The Flintstones in episode 6.)
* Sick Sad World: For every scene of someone happy, there's five or so of something bad.
* Stock Footage (Various establishing shots and hovercraft race sequences, among others)
* Stripperiffic (Just about everything any of the adult women wear.)
* Surrounded by Idiots: Rena feels this way at times.
* Survival Mantra (The page quote.)
* Suspended Animation (Maia and her big brother.)
* There Are No Therapists (Averted -- we see a pair of psychologists who work with the young amnesiac Maia for two years. Then again, they are part of the conspiracy trying to ensure that Maia's memory never comes back.)
* True Companions: No matter how much grief Nereids gives Maia, they really do care about her deep down. Milly and Tsukasa even more so because they don't give her such grief.
* Underwater City (They play an important role in the backstory of the world of the series. And in Maia's backstory, as well.)
* Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Nobody ever seems to notice the extremely skimpy outfits the Nereids wear while on the job. Possibly justified by the fact that the cities all have tropical climates where it's summer all year; skimpy clothing is presumably common (although we never see anyone else in clothes quite that skimpy...).
* Whole-Episode Flashback (Episode 11, "The Long Stay")
* X-Ray Sparks
* Zany Scheme (Several of them)
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