マグメル深海水族館

MAGMELL SHINKAI SUIZOKUKAN

Slice of Life

MANGA

STATUS
RELEASING
VOLUMES
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CHAPTERS
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DESCRIPTION

A tale about a modern deep-sea aquarium employee in Tokyo!

What's living in the overwhelming darkness deep within the sea? Take a glimpse into this strange world about a boy working at a deep sea aquarium.

CAST

Koutarou Tenjou
Shinya Shirahama
Ran Dougashima
Shizuka Nagaizumi
Minato Osezaki
Ryou Chibata
Izuho Haruno
Asahi Yui

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

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100/100
A Love Letter to the Deep-sea Enthusiast with Warm, Comfy Storytelling.

This is an overview about a very niche manga with a deep-sea biology theme and it environment, written and drawn by Kiyomi Sugishita.

Story

Deep-sea aquarium magmell is an educational slice-of-life type media. It's sort of the same style of slice-of-life like Ruri no Houseki. But this one is more on the warm drama instead of comedy.

The style of the storytelling is pretty much trying to educate the reader through a familiarity approach, helping us relate to the animal--through the lenses of the characters' perspectives.

The story follows a boy named Koutarou Tenjou, who applies to work at a deep-sea aquarium because of his passion for deep-sea life. Instead of being recruited as a keeper, he is hired as a janitor because all the keeper positions are currently full. However, he doesn't give up; his love for the deep sea is deeper than anything else. As long as he can see these animals every day, it is enough for him.

One of the crew in his work called him "Giant Isopod-kun" because of that (Giant Isopod is called a neutral cleaner of the deep since they're usually eat detritus that has fallen to the seabed).

But no worries, I don't think he mean it in a malice intent. Koutarou took that as an offensive though. Feels like he's being misunderstood. Just like how Giant Isopod is often being misunderstood as a gross and boring animal since they're a pillbug and rarely move, even tho there's a lot of cool things to know about them. Like, how giant isopod can keep on living without eating for a whole 5 years!!

Otherwise, because this is an educational sci-fi media--it's very important to know whether the story stays true to the science or not, right? I'd say, with me reading them with a deep-sea scientific paper beside me (because I wanna know more about the information beyond the manga explanation), yes they're pretty accurate!

And because this is an entertainment media, does it entertain enough to keep on reading? Well, that's subjective. But, if you like a warm comfy approach like Fox Maid Senko series, then yes- it should be entertaining for you. Plus point if you love the ocean or the deep sea.

Art

I'd say the paneling is a godtier and also very unique too. Sometimes the artist trying to make a continuous double page like that. It's very fun to see sometimes. And because this is a marine biology manga, of course, the artist is going to draw the creatura as detail as possible, and they're doing a very good job at delivering that.

Another thing I like to add is that Kiyomi Sugishita seems to be trying to draw the marine snow, looks like a cluster of star sometimes. Creating a glimpse, looks like they're inside of a planetarium full of deep-sea animal.
5 continuous spread pages ?? there's a lot of spread pages like this occurring in the manga.
I think that's all I can say about the Deep-sea Aquarium Magmell. Give it a try if you want some warm story to read.
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