With Children of the Sea, director Ayumu Watanabe adapted a manga by Daisuke Igarashi, striving to retain the qualities in the source material that he’d originally responded to, while making the ch…
The director’s Oscar-contending animated feature centers on Ruka, a young girl who finds herself drawn into a mystery of the sea. Encountering two boys that were raised in the ocean, at the aquarium where her father works, the girl seeks answers about their supernatural powers, and how they’re connected to strange events involving sea creatures around the world.
When Watanabe first read the manga on which his GKIDS film is based, he responded immediately to its visual style. “I was reading [Igarashi’s] manga beforecame out, so I was already a fan, and I knew his artwork well,” the director tells Deadline. “For me, the variation between simple lines and sometimes very detailed [illustrations] was something I was really drawn to.
to life had to do with realistically animating all of the kinds of marine life seen in the film. “For fish life and the environment, we took trips to the ocean, and did a lot of research at aquariums. We were also able to work with a university, whose specialty is to look at the movement of fish. So, we were able to look at them very closely,” Akimoto says.
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