ChaO
Busy and strange, Japanese animation ChaO imagines a world where mermaids, mermen – merpeople? – commune regularly with humans, and where a lowly designer working for a shipping company becomes the romantic focus of attention of the daughter of the king of the sea. Make sure all your wits are primed when approaching this one, the plot details arrive at furious speed at the beginning – a fairytale princess, a fight with a monster, a mermaid, fantasy tales read in a book by an impressionable young man – before things settle down a touch as dogged reporter Juno finally tracks down his man and gets his scoop: the story behind the famous coupling … Read more