Children of the Whales

I was surprised by this anime: Visually pleasing, an interesting story and with all brutality still emotional and beautiful. It hits a special nerve. It's really worth watching! I hope there will be a second season.

Wow it was Awesome. I love the fact that the strange names like falena and likos are all Greek. And since I am from Greece I can also translate them for you. so falena means whale, thats why the anime is named the children of the whales, likos means wolf and the enemy ship I couldn't recognise the world it was either skiros or skilos. Skiros is an actual island in Greece but I think it was skilos because it means dog and the other ships are named after animals too. Also anthropos means human and sarka means flesh. What else I LOVE about this anime is that Chakuro rights everything in Greek and the cool part is that what is writen in the paper actually makes sense with what Chakuro says to us as he talks, for example in one scene he says he wanted to describe everything even the tears of the people and in this scene what we saw was a paper that had righten down "den mporousan na stamatisoun na klene" which means "they couldn't stop crying". I think that Greek was actually the right language to pick since we actually have a lot of islands in my country and we have a lot of sea too. Also I think this anime refers to when we had dictatorship in Greece and whoever was suspected to be an enemy to the government was send in a prison which was located in an isolated island. There is a lot of references to Greek culture in this anime and a lot of detail. I really appreciate and love your work. Keep up with it cause I really want to see MORE !!!!

*everything that I wanted to write with Greek letters is written with English letters cause IMDb doesn't allow Greek letters to appear in its website, how rude.

I didn't expect too much from this, as I haven't been a fan of any Netflix original animes so far. However this one surprised me. The characters are likable (especially the main character), the world was unique and full of mystery, the artwork is gorgeous, and the soundtrack is both beautiful and, at times, haunting. I meant to watch 20 minutes before bed and ended up watching two hours.

The only criticism I have with this anime is that every once in a while a scene would reach beyond the realm of magical to where I was having a "...what did I just watch..." moment.

Overall, you should watch this. Go watch it.

I'm not all of the way through it yet (two episodes to go!), but I feel compelled to come on here and write something about it.

When I first started watching 'Children of the Whales', I have to admit that I found it pretty dull to begin with but on the hand I was intrigued by its originality and decided to stick with it to see where it was heading, and... Well, I'm really glad that I did! Although it does start off pretty slowly, it takes a very dark turn around half way through the season and actually gets very good indeed. In fact, I found that the contrast between the idyllic beginning and the subsequent violence when Falaina is invaded was actually pretty shocking.

It's always great to discover an anime that isn't all about giant robots and shallow characters, and with CotW it's the characters and writing that really makes it stand out. There's some really great character development throughout the first series and many of the ideas and concepts are brilliantly original and are executed with some of the nicest art and designs I've seen in an anime for quite some time. There's a deep seam of emotion running through the show as well, and it is with some reluctance that I admit that it actually made me well up on more than one occasion.

Much of this emotion is down to the really rather superb music, with both the opening and closing title music (and the incidental music throughout the show) being absolutely amazing - in fact, it's one of the few shows where I actually watch them all the way through to listen to them, which is high praise indeed.

Overall, I'd got as far as saying that this is one of the most stunningly original anime I've seen in ages and I can't wait to see if they're going to make a second series.

Although it is a sad story overall, I think one of the main goals of it is to teach young about humanity, unity, hope, war, negotiation, even politics in a simple but magic way!