[Anime Review] Ocean Waves - Umi ga Kikoeru

Ocean Waves - Umi ga Kikoeru

"Good anime, but boring" -bezoe

Ocean Waves is high school love story set in Kochi, Japan. Morisaku Taku and Matsuno Yutaka are best friends when a girl from Tokyo named Muto Rikako transfers to their school. Excluding herself from group activities, she’s eventually labeled a snob. Matsuno has a crush on Rikako, so it’s no surprise that he gets a little jealous when Morisaku and Rikako start spending more time together. The rumors around school get worse, but Morisaku still insists there is nothing between him and Rikako.

The storyline actually interesting, but I guess the execution of the anime that makes it boring. Too bad this is came from Ghibli studio that I though it always produce a superb anime. But then again, This anime is released for TV station I believe, so I don't think I can considered it to be as same level as movie. Oh btw, this anime released in 1993.

Character design looked very generic, the personality looks plain. Even the animation looks pretty standard, except for the near ending part which I think looks great. The voice acting pretty good and the background drawing was pretty.

Bottom line: Its ok to pass on this one, you won't miss a thing.

Overall rating: C++