Spotted fish are attracted to Umi and Sora when they swim in the sea and eat glowing lights that fall from Umi and Sora. Another mystery that we learn is the unexplained glowing lights that appear on Umi and Sora when they swim in the sea.
They became excellent swimmers and sensitive to sunlight (the sun dries them up, so they need to immerse themselves in water often). They adapted to their life when they were young. Ruka thinks the same way as them and also has shared a similar experience where she met a “ghost of the sea.” We learn that Umi, along with his brother Sora that we meet in later chapters, was raised by Dugongs. Jim has been searching for people who think the same way as him, Umi and Sora, who we meet in later chapters.
Umi’s guardian is a man by the name of Jim Cusak, who shows up many times throughout the volume after Ruka’s meeting with Umi. Umi is often at the aquarium, and so Ruka sees him more often. Ruka’s father learns of her scuffle at Handball and offers her to work with him at the aquarium as a “punishment” for getting in trouble. After Ruka is kicked off of her Handball team, she decides to go to Tokyo to see the sea, where she meets Umi, with whom she begins to make a close connection. She is very distant to her mother, although her mother is the only parent that she lives with, which is shown through the rarity of her mother’s face appearing in the comic, although Ruka does talk with her mother a few times, and how Ruka talks about her mother. She is very passionate about Handball, but in the very beginning of the story she is kicked off of her team because she pushes another girl after the girl had stepped on her foot. In the beginning of the story we learn more and more about Ruka. We assume that the woman is Ruka, since she states that she is in her story and immediately following after we follow around Ruka on her adventure. The manga begins with a woman on a boat telling her grandchildren a story. The Children of the Sea is about a rough tomboy girl who has trouble making friends, who meets two unique children, Umi and Sora, and uncovers a few mysteries of the sea, revolving around glowing lights and “ghosts of the sea”.
We liked the novel as a whole for its beautiful pictures and mysterious storyline but as a whole we felt the novel felt slow due to the fact that it is merely the introduction to the series where it introduces the plot line. For our manga we chose to read Children of the Sea by Daisuke Igarashi.
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