Have you ever stumble upon something that looks so surreal to the point that explaining how surreal of a matter it is using words would be futile? And no words in dictionary is suitable enough to explain it coherently; it's as if the most effective way for you to comprehend what it really is by experiencing it by yourself. Even though language exists innately for human to be able to express what they're currently feeling and so on, again there are just some things out there that could never really be explained by words. And how we exactly perceive that is instinctual, instead of following from a logical and rational standpoint, it's rather followed from an impulsive standpoint.
Children of The Sea juxtaposes the idea posed in the last paragraph with how cetaceans are in general. Unlike humans, they're able to articulate anything even emotions, which is something that human is incapable of doing, in a really cogent way. Even if you may disagree with the idea that Children of the Sea is posing, you couldn't help but notice how structured and intriguing of the idea really is. How intriguing you may ask? It's intriguing enough to the point that after reading the whole thing it evoked a passion inside me in the field of marine biology in general. It's a must to emphasize this certain section of paragraph due to how nicely executed it is. To substantiate the previous, a lot of the dialogues from the manga is seamlessly executed in a really digestible manner. Even though some of the dialogues may seem really complex due to how technical, it is done in a way where perhaps a 6th grader would be able to discern what the dialogues really meant. Furthermore, some of the dialogues as well seems really disjointed at the first place, but somehow as the dialogues goes on, the ideas that are posed within the dialogues does make some sense after all, done seamlessly and in a thought-provoking manner.
It would be an understatement if I were to say that the storytelling of Children of The Sea is captivating. It's guaranteed that you'd be immersed to the story due to just how sublime the art is. If I were to describe it to my best, the art style itself is like rough and messy at a lot of occasions, yet there is no denying that from an aesthetical standpoint, it looks incredibly artistical. I'd say that the art really did a good job on setting the tone of the recurring mood throughout the story, if that makes sense.
Though I must aware that reading this manga is a challenge, as corny as it sounds, it is virtually impossible to get the gist of it in your first read, due to how it is packed to the brim with a lot of subtle nuances, it's like in every chapters they're ceaselessly adding nuances implicitly, to the point that processing all of them is going to take a lot of time, so it's rather recommended to reread this manga so that you'd understand the gist of it more, but again just take your time while reading this manga, no need to rush and appreciate the beauty that it offers.
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