Do You Like Mermaid Characters in Anime? 38511d
Mermaids in anime are beautiful, graceful, and sometimes silly creatures who are at home under the water. These 15 anime offer a glimpse at the life of these mythical underwater beings.
Seto no Hanayome (My Bride is a Mermaid) yc2e
MAL Score: 7.99 | Episodes: 26 14n6
How far would you go to save the life of a stranger? Mermaid Nagasumi Michishio offers her his hand in marriage in order to save both of them from her Yakuza family's wrath. Let the hijinks ensue!
Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san (Muromi-san) 4j4i2k
MAL Score: 7.09 | Episodes: 13 721g1q
Takurou Mukoujima accidentally fishes her up and reveals to her the wonders of the human world. Looks like Takurou caught a whopper...
Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch q4w6w
MAL Score: 7.12 | Episodes: 52 o404z
These girls are more than just mermaids in human form -- they're also teen singing idols! It's not all fun and games, though, as the stake of their ocean world depends on them and the powers they gain through their singing.
Mermaid Forest 2g4o3p
MAL Score: 7.18 | Episodes: 13 6h3861
If you think all mermaids are cute and girly, you might want to avoid Mermaid Forest and its OVA InuYasha.
Kono Danshi, Ningyo Hiromashita (This Boy Caught a Merman) 76o2k
MAL Score: 7.82 | Episodes: 1 (OVA) 4q1g2v
Part of the Kono Danshi shounen-ai series, this installment features a tale of forbidden love between a merman and a high school boy. Long distance relationships are difficult enough to maintain, but it's even more difficult when you literally live in different worlds.
Orenchi no Furo Jijou 14706t
MAL Score: 7.17 | Episodes: 13 466715
Imagine waking up one day and finding a merman in your bathtub. That's exactly what happened to Wakasa is not a terrible houseguest, but it sure costs a lot to keep a merman happy.
Ningyohime Marina no Bouken (Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid) and 2j17
Andersen Douwa: Ningyohime 5j5y6t
MAL Score: 6.59 | Episodes: 26 565w3j
MAL Score: 7.37 | Movie 5b6t2m
In these two retellings of the classic Little Mermaid tale, the leading mermaids both meet a human prince, and both decide that love is worth giving up their fins for.
Ningyo (Mermaid) 291364
MAL Score: 6.66 | Movie 2d4g24
The world would be a different place without our imagination. The boy in this uniquely styled anime lives in such a world, so when he finds a fish that transforms into a mermaid he is punished for his "nonsense." But what will become of the beautiful mermaid in a world where no one believes she exists? This super short film comes from the mind of Osamu Tezuka, the "father of anime!"
Gake no Ue no Ponyo (Ponyo) 3y414i
MAL Score: 7.94 | Movie 414k23
Ponyo is not a full-fledged mermaid, but she lives in the sea. She's so little that she's only a goldfish of a mermaid!
One Piece 373w26
MAL Score: 8.60 | Episodes: 730+ (and counting!) 1b3k6v
One Piece has its share of merfolk, like the beautiful Mero. In an interesting twist to the usual mermaid folklore, mermaid tails split into two when they turn 30, allowing them to walk on land. Even more interestingly, merman tails do not.
Fairy Tail 4e5s2x
MAL Score: 8.28 | Episodes: 175 (with ongoing sequels) 1h1r3q
You can find mermaids in the anime Fairy Tail, unironically. Aquarius is a beautiful but moody mermaid who is based on the zodiac sign of her name and uses water-based magic.
Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokkan 3bg6f
MAL Score: 7.13 | Episodes: 12 32171t
Pokkan has plenty of strange and mythical beings, so the mermaid princess Lulu is not too out of place here. Like many other mermaids in these anime, Lulu wants to win the love of a human boy. As they say, the grass is always greener… or the seaweed, we suppose.
Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto 6jh1u
MAL Score: 6.78 | Episodes: 12 6g3a5p
Not all mermaids have fish tails. The mermaids in Umi Monogatari look like regular girls who just happen to live under the water with among the fish. They long to visit the human world, though. The ocean must be a really terrible place to live or something!
Nagi no Asukara (A Lull in the Sea) 3q2k18
MAL Score: 8.36 | Episodes: 26 r4mt
There are no mermaid tails here either, but the people of this anime have the ability to breathe underwater. The mermaids and humans are not that different, in fact, but the rift between them has grown large over the years. Can they learn to live with each other again?
Shinryaku! Ika Musume (Squid Girl) 5i4q1y
MAL Score: 7.62 | Episodes: 12 3a3s
Here it is, the answer to the question posed by most of the anime in this list: WHY are all the mermaids so desperate to come live in the human world!? According to Ika Musume, the waters of the world are becoming polluted! Ika might not technically be a mermaid, but as a squid girl she does live under the sea. Lucky for all the other mermaids, instead of coming out of the waters because of a boy (ugh), Ika emerges to enslave the humans and punish them for turning the oceans of the world into a terrible place to live. Too bad she's just so darn cute!
