AniWorthTristia of the Deep Blue Sea
Introduction
An ocean city, Tristia.
Tristia used to be prospering playing an important role of the maritime trade, and it was as beautiful as to be praised as "marine jewelry".
However, that was a long time ago.
The attack of the dragons deprived the city of their original brightness. The people in Tristia worked hard to reconstruct their city, but everything they did went wrong, and the city became desolated on the contrary.
At the end of their hope, they asked a Great Artisan for the recovery of the city, Prospero Flanka. Prospero was a legendary inventor who had revived cities that otherwise would have been ruined.
The long-awaited day came when the Great Artisan Prosper arrived in the city... However, it was only one girl who stood at the port of the city. Prospero sent his grand daughter, Nanoka, for him.
(Source: AnimeNfo)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.59/10 · 1842
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Audience reviews
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SgtSalamander
Tristia of the Deep Blue Sea is a simple, archetypal mid-2000s OVA, rising out of obscurity, and slipping right back beneath the waves, as it were. It's not really anything special, but it is simple, straightforward, and at times nostalgic fun. Beginning with the story, it's pretty boilerplate- a town called Tristia has mechs as a major industry and the granddaughter of a famous inventor lives there, whose goal it is to revitalize the town via inventions and urban planning. However, we don't really get much of that in the show, as it's instead completely focused on a tournament arc where the mechs have big robot battles. You're dropped right in the middle of a story without any context or introduction, but it's not necessarily jarring as there isn't much more to 'get' beyond what you see.…
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This is an OVA based on the Deep-Blue series game 'Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea'. I'm frankly baffled as to how such an obscure series managed to get any animation at all but the mid-2000s were a strange time. I have played some of the games so I can comment that this OVA does a pretty good job at conveying the basic jist and tone of the game, but it's definitely not a stellar anime overall. It really depends on whether your love of mid-2000s anime tropes dialed up to 11 in some bizarre comedy of a mecha anime fights through. Deep-Blue is a bit of a weird mix between a visual novel and a city-building sim with mechas bolted on, it's sortof like if an Atelier game was set in a Aria-esque universe which i really dig, it's a shame that style of world fell out of fashion in the 2010s.
The ani…
Read at the sourceSkadi
Aoi Umi no Tristia (Tristia of the Deep Blue Sea) is another example of a series that just throws together cute girls, mechs, explosions, fan service and hopes enough suckers will watch it. Consider myself hoodwinked.
The plot for Tristia starts off simple enough, with a domestic Golem (mecha) competition. Yeah it’s what it sounds like, robots doing housework... exciting huh? Of course it soon turns into mecha battles between rivals Nanoca and Panavia. Panavia seems to be bent only because she finishes second in every inventor contest the two of them entered. There is a mysterious man seemingly behind Panavia who is after information about Nanoca's mecha Tenzan. This might have proved to be an interesting plot element, except for the fact that there is no resolution to it! None, zero. So…
Read at the sourceRetro8bit
Aoi Umi no Tristia certainly would appear to have a lot things going for it, upon just looking at the picture you might feel its a cute shoujo with lovable characters and a heartwarming story, and while it does indeed have it in this two episode OVA, its a shame that it does it so by the book!
Story: 5/10
Well there isn't much to it, basically it has Nanoca (our young heroine) fighting battle after battle by way of her own huge mecha called Golems which she herself created, and at this point I was instantly reminded of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, but with robots! Which honestly, this series is basically a combination of. There really isn't anything else to comment on about it, basically she must prove her skills as the best of her kind by defeating her rival who challenges her.....and that's it…
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