Karakter & Staf

Yuuta

Utama

Male · Umur 500

500 year old immortal. He ate the flesh of a mermaid out of curiosity when he and his fellow fishermen had captured one, but out of all the fishermen who ate a piece, only Yuta had survived. His comrades had either been poisoned or turned into soul-less monsters. Yuta, being scared that he will meet the same fate, goes into denial before simply forgetting about ever eating the mermaid's flesh. He takes a wife and lives normally until he discovers that while she grew older as the years go by, he hasn't aged since the day he ate the flesh. He hears that a mermaid will be able to help him turn normal again, thus, travels endlessly in search of a way to become mortal. Along his travels, he meets a girl named Mana, another immortal who was fed mermaid flesh by the ones who raised her. He saves Mana from the mermaids who were planning to devour her and takes her in as a traveling companion.

Kouichi Yamadera

Mana

Utama

An immortal companion of Yuta. She was raised by a group of old women that kept her captive and incapacitated in a hut. They were really mermaids that sought to eat Mana once she reached her adolescence to regain their youth. She travels with Yuta since, and possesses a large sense of loyalty and feelings towards him, but due to her somewhat naive and spoiled nature, she doesn't seem to truly realize that her emotions towards him are possibly love or just simple affection.

Minami Takayama

Rin

Pendukung

She is a daughter of Toba Island's headman, but due to the headman's sickness, Rin has to take over his leadership. Rin has been searching for a mermaid to cure her father. By that time, she meets Yuta when he came back to life from a terrible battle he is in. Rin and Yuta fell in love each other and Yuta promised to stay in Toba Island if he has turned back into a mortal. Isago, the Sakagami headman's wife, wounded the Toba headman and makes Rin and Yuta to go back into a mermaid hunt. They found on but Rin has been captured before Yuta manages to save her. In the end, Rin and Yuta learned that Isago is a mermaid and they cannot be together due to Yuta's failure of asking a mermaid to grant him his mortality. Rin continues her father's leadership.

Houko Kuwashima

Towa Kannagi

Pendukung

Female

She suffered from a deadly illness when she was a young girl. Her twin sister Sawa fed Towa the blood of a mermaid. The blood made her better, but unfortunately, she developed a deformed arm, similar of a Lost Soul's and her hair turned pure white. She didn't age on the outside, but her insides were the same. When Towa's father learned of what Sawa did to her, Towa locked up in a cell underneath the house and was never allowed to come out. Sawa had a life of her own; getting married and having a child of her own while Towa lived alone in the world except for her fiancée, Dr. Shiina. Her deformed arm caused her terrible pain. She asks Dr. Shiina to dissect the arms of dead girls and re-attach them onto her. But every arm has turned deformed and the pain gets worse. She is about to lose hope until Mana is killed in a car accident. Dr. Shiina is about to cut off Mana's arm, but when Mana came back to life, she comes up with a plan. She will replace her body into Mana's unless Sawa tells her where the mermaid mound is. Towa had shown a small love interest for Mana, but it is unknown if she loved her for the fact that she has an immortal body or the anything else. Towa found the mermaid and wants to give the flesh to Sawa to fulfill her revenge, but Sawa dies of a cardiac arrest, leaving her with nothing to show her life. In the end, Towa joins her sister in death.

Sumi Shimamoto

Big Eyes

Pendukung

He is once a mortal, but becoming an immortal overtook him. While he was walking down to the beach, he found a mermaid corpse lying on shore. He heard about the legend so he ate the mermaid flesh. But unfortunately, the flesh turned him into a monster. He is almost like a Lost Soul, only that he can speak and has human feelings and his eyes are big and swollen. When he woke up from a concussion during the transformation, he saw that his village has been destroyed and so is his family along with everybody who lived in the village has been murdered. He is now called "Big Eyes". He is without company for a long time until Mana came along. He found her and Yuta dead in the cliffs. He took her to his cave and feeds her. He wants Mana to stay with him for company and to be prevented from being hunted. The most hunter is a man who lost his eye to "Big Eyes" 40 years ago. When Yuta and the hunter found "Big Eyes" and Mana, they attacked him. All the attack turned "Big Eyes" into a fierce monster. Mana tries to protect him, but Yuta and the hunter had no choice but to kill him. As he lay dying, he called out Mana's name from his last breath. Yuta tells her that "Big Eyes" died as a human.

Daisuke Gouri

Nae Kogure

Pendukung

She met Yuta years before World War II. When she learned about Yuta's curse of immortality, she tells him a secret about mermaid's ashes. She spread the ashes all around the field of red flowers, causing to bloom all year long, never to wilt or die by season, including winter. She calls the field "red valley". Soon. she and Yuta fell in love and began meeting in the red valley in private. Her fiancée, Eijiro, got jealous of Yuta falling for Nae, but never believed that she would betray him. He learned about Nae's signal of metting Yuta in the red valley, so he went there to meet her. When she arrived at the valley, Eijiro became shocked of her betrayal that he strangled her to death. As years pass, Eijiro learns his mistake and sadness of what he done to Nae. But he learns about mermaid ashes and found it. The ashes brought Nae back to life, but she became a shadow of her former self. When Yuta came back to Nae's hometown with Mana, she plans to reunite with him, but Eijiro prevents it. Sometimes, Nae goes into murderous trances because of her shadow form. But to overlook it, Eijiro is deeply in love with her. As Yuta and Nae reunite once again, she tells Yuta that she is having a nightmare. Then Yuta remembers that there is a village legend that a priestess came to the village, carrying a jar of mermaid ashes. And then a man murdered the preistess, but the ashes went into her mouth, brought her back to life as a shadow, but then wears as she went to the mountains as her deathbed. Nae's affect of the ashes wears off, left her to die once again in the red valley as her deathbed.

Yuri Amano

Masato

Pendukung

Male · Umur 800

A young boy who has been immortal for 800 years. He has a face of an angel, but the soul of the devil. Masato would give mermaid flesh to a woman and have her pose as his mother until she was deemed useless. Despite his childlike appearance, eight hundred years of loneliness and wandering have turned Masato into a soulless monster. His latest mother figure, Misa, actually gave him the name Masato. He found her during WWII after she had lost real son in an air-raid. Sixty years later, Mana and Yuta came across Misa and Masato, and Masato set his sights on making Mana his latest mother-figure. He drove off in a car and plowed right into a truck but it was implied that he was still out there searching for another mother.

Makiko Oomoto

Rin no Chichi

Pendukung

Male

Rin’s father and Toba Island’s headman, he suffers form sickness and is bedridden. Due to his sickness, Rin runs the port on his behalf. When the headman was injured by Isago, the Sakagami’s headman’s wife, Rin slays Isago and goes out to sea in search of a mermaid.

Kinryuu Arimoto

Isago

Pendukung

The wife of the Sakagami Island headman. Isago told her husband of the immortality of the mermaid's flesh and encouraged him to find one. Isago is pregnant from her former husband who was murdered by the Sakagami pirates three years earlier. In order to give birth to a healthy child, Isago needs to eat the mermaid flesh, because she is in fact a mermaid. She tells Rin that there are mermaids who can walk on land and mermaids who swim at sea. The ones who walk on land eat the swimming mermaids' flesh, especially during pregnancy. Isago finally ate mermaid flesh, dived into the ocean, transformed back into a mermaid, and gave birth to two healthy babies

Ai Orikasa