Series synopsis
My Bride is a Mermaid, also known as 瀬戸の花嫁 is a Japanese comedy animation sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on TV Tokyo on April 1, 2007. It ended on September 30, 2007. It stars Takahiro Mizushima, Haruko Momoi, Ayumi Tsunematsu and Atsushi Imaruoka.
Nagasumi's in hot water after a beautiful, young mermaid named Sun saves him from drowning. The deep-sea sweetheart's dad is a merman yakuza prone to executing anyone who learns his family's scaly secret! Luckily, there's a catch - if Nagasumi agrees to marry Sun, he just might avoid sleeping with the fishes!
Premise
Nagasumi's in hot water after a beautiful, young mermaid named Sun saves him from drowning. The deep-sea sweetheart's dad is a merman yakuza prone to executing anyone who learns his family's scaly secret! Luckily, there's a catch - if Nagasumi agrees to marry Sun, he just might avoid sleeping with the fishes!
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Takahiro Mizushima as 満潮 永澄 / Nagasumi Michishio (voice)
- Haruko Momoi as 瀬戸 燦 / Sun Seto (voice)
- Ayumi Tsunematsu as サーたん / Saturn (voice)
- Atsushi Imaruoka as 永澄の父 / Nagasumi's father (voice)
- Takehito Koyasu as シャーク藤代 / Shark Fujishiro (voice)
- Noriko Rikimaru as 伊院千代 / Class President (voice)
- Noriko Namiki as 永澄の母 / Nagasumi's mother (voice)
- Tomoko Kaneda as 猿飛 悟 / Satori Sarutobi (voice)
Supporting cast
- Natsuko Kuwatani as 巻 / Maki (voice)
- Masahito Yabe as オクトパス中島 / Octopus Nakajima (voice)
- Tessyo Genda as ルナパパ / Lunar's Papa (voice)
- Kenta Miyake as 瀬戸 豪三郎 / Gozaburo Seto (voice)
- Daisuke Ono as 三河 海 / Kai Mikawa (voice)
- Eri Kitamura as 不知火 明乃 明星 / Akeno Shiranui (voice)
- Katsuki Murase as 政 / Masa (voice)
- Sakura Nogawa as 江戸前 留奈 / Lunar Edomae (voice)
- Makiko Nabei as 瀬戸 蓮 / Ren Seto (voice)
- Rika Morinaga as 銭形 巡 / Mawari Zenigata (voice)
- Eriko Matsushima as 永澄の祖母 / Nagasumi's grandmother (voice)
- Katsumi Cho as 永澄の祖父 (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 37 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 11 | November 28, 2008 | March 31, 2010 |
| Season 1 | 26 | April 1, 2007 | September 30, 2007 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Jin A new semester begins where Nagasumi, San and the others are third grader seniors. Everyone got into the same class except Nagasumi got sent to the eighth middle school, class zero where in a classroom full of delinquents. Unable to cooperate with his new class, their homeroom teacher Shark Fujishiro plans to make a killing spree session on his first day of homeroom. Meanwhile, a new student has came to Sun and Lunar's class who turns out to be Lunar's Papa who is dressed in a female middle school attire along with an apron. This disgusts Lunar and makes a whole ruckus in the class. When Seto Gozaburo asks them to quiet down, Lunar's father tells him to not interfere and the two start a fight. Lunar and Sun leave to find Nagasumi and get him back to his seat to clear their situation. |
November 28, 2008 |
| 2 |
Gi The first half of the episode has Shiranui working in a maid cafe to pay off the damage she did to the store. Sun, Mawari, Satori and Lunar offer to work there also, and a 'competition' begins between the four. At the end, the store is destroyed again. The second half of the episode starts with a flashback scene from when Sun was a child, playing with her friend, and they make a promise. Then, Lunar and Nagasumi are watching a horror movie in the house while the others are out. Lunar freaks out and a zombie girl appears in the house. A few things happen, and the so-called zombie girl tells Nagasumi that 'It's all your fault.' The next day at school, she appears again and attacks all of the students except Lunar, who cowers in the corner. Sun returns and finds that the zombie girl is her childhood friend, Saturn. Saturn leaves, and they make a promise once more. |
January 30, 2009 |
| 3 |
Picture Drama The first part starts out with gags and the characters drawn in a simplistic chibi style. It's followed by a quick recap and then goes into the main picture drama story. |
March 3, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Yakuza's Wife Nagasumi, a teenage boy, is saved by the chivalrous mermaid Sun while drowning in the ocean off the coast of Seto Island. Mermaid society rules are strict — in order for both Nagasumi and Sun to stay alive, they have to get married. Little does Nagasumi know that Sun's mermaid clan is in fact a Yakuza organization. |
April 1, 2007 |
| 2 |
Legend of the Ring Nagasumi enjoys his first date with Sun at the Bon Festival. However, most stalls are operated by the Seto-Gumi. Later, Nagasumi soon finds out that Sun's legs revert into a tail when she is splashed with water and must protect her by drying her legs. |
April 8, 2007 |
| 3 |
Island Closest to Heaven Sun and Nagasumi get to spend a whole day alone on a deserted island. However, this is a trap meant to eliminate Nagasumi, as the group's notorious assassin and longtime friend of Sun's, the "Spiral Shell" Maki, is after his life. |
April 15, 2007 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TV Tokyo |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 1, 2007 |
| Last aired | September 30, 2007 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Sunday |