This is not a anime that will really stand out when you look at the whole year in perspective. It is a calm, beautiful and relaxing anime that deals with the struggle of building upon a broken dream, the reality of growing up and how harsh life can be. It captures that sense really beautifully that yes, a lot of our dreams will just be dreams. That all dreams must end when the dreamer wakes up. And we see that throughout the series as we see how Kukuru must face reality when what she holds most precious to her gets destroyed.

Those who are older will understand that we have so many broken dreams, some things just remain dreams. But throughout it all, it is a beautiful journey regardless of all the dirt road or hard gravel we must walk on. Sometimes you face thorn and so many hardship to just reach your dreams. And even so, some of those dreams will crumble before our eyes. This doesn't mean that we cannot build upon them and start anew.

What makes this anime so special is the bond between Kukuru and Fuuka who builds upon each other broken dream to find a new dream together. Sometimes we can only see so far but with someone else there we can see past what we couldn't before or notice things we would've otherwise missed.

Visually this anime is pleasing, it is as expected of PA Works original. There's not much to say beside visual is absolutely gorgeous with their scenery being always gorgeous as always. The way they drew the animal really shine as they really cared about their visual and detail and how much they care to portray each individual creatures.

Characters - each character shine in their own way. With a good supporting cast overall who really build onto the friendship. I mean could have this show survive without most of them or still be good? Yeah I can say so, since the real focus is really Kukuru and Fuuka and the others are just a nice treat to have there. Not saying they didn't add anything.

Plot - it's really simple and close to real life as you can get. Seeing how a lot of us can relate to a lot of our dreams being crushed and broken. Needing others to help us get back on our feet. As Fuuka build her dream upon Kukuru dream and even though that fell apart, they continue to push each other to build upon a new dream in the new aquarium.

Overall I really had a great time watching this. I don't think it'll be one of the anime people will be talking about for a long time but it does have it's moment in the spotlight as being one of the few bright spot of Summer. Since it's just me personally but I thought Summer was kind of lacking in good anime. So this was a beautiful treat to have.
Kukuru and Fuuka friendship was a beautiful relationship that I really admire. Sure you can ship them or call it yuri or whatever but in the end it's not, it's really just a beautiful friendship of one another helping each other achieve their dreams and building upon each other dreams. Their dreams became one.
Life can be rough, life can be full of twist and turns, we never know when we might lose everything and everyone close to us but we have to keep moving forward and find that someone who will help us along the way. We aren't meant to go alone into the world. And sometimes you may not know what to do or what your dream is, but you can always build it upon someone else and help them achieve their dreams. And is that a bad thing? Not at all, because you would share in their dreams and that will be your dream as well.
So don't expect anything great out of this but a beautiful lesson and a message of it's up to us to take care of our world, our ocean and those creatures that lives in it. Because one day we might not see them again and though we don't see what they do but some of them do play a big role in the eco system.