In the future, the oceans have risen to flood all the continents due to humanity's negligence of the environment. Only a few bits of land have been spared, and one of those is the city-island where Elfie lives with her grandfather. One day, due to an underwater incident, she discovers that she can breathe underwater. Her grandfather reveals that in truth she is one of the mythical sea-people. Using the city-folk's xenophobia, local politicians spark a war with this hidden people to distract people from their current resource problems, and Elfie is caught in the middle of it.
(Source: ANN)
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Drakoqueen
I have to say that I watched this when I was 6 to 7 years old and I never forgot it. This anime touched me more than many Disney movies when I was a child. I kept searching for it but had no idea where to look and what keywords exactly to look up. Of course after all this time (me being 26 now) I couldn't remember exactly how it was. And here by chance I just found it. So happy about this! I kept remembering the final scene and couldn't let go of it. I think this anime deserves a remake to renew the graphics,sound quality, etc
matthigh
Sure, this may be a fairly simplistic story, with unimpressive artwork and less-than-stellar animation, and it may be heavy-handed on the moralizing, aimed at kids in the eight to ten year age range. But overall...not that bad. It's hundreds of years in the future, and Earth has turned into a Waterworld, mostly ocean and humans living more in harmony with nature (out of necessity). Elfie, with her brother and grandfather live a seemingly peaceful life, flitting about (and under) the seas in futuristic ski-doos, playing with the dolphins and worrying about the growing encroachment of their nation's development on thepristine seas.
Unexpectedly Elfie discovers she can breathe under water, and soon becomes hopelessly entangled in the middle of a conflict between the humans above the sea (led by Ming the Merciless) and the mythical and much-feared undersea folk.
It's not a very sophisticated story, which is fine, not every story has to have some big twist or multi-faceted relationship polygon. The ending is somewhat abrupt and deus-ex-machina in nature, but oh well. Good story for the younger set, and their adult parents will probably be okay with it, too.
