This anime is so cute and fluffy you cannot hate it! Impossible to hate such cute mermaids who can sing so beautifully. As technology progressed, the Ama communities were faced with decisions – adopt new tools and equipment or retain traditions? One of the most important parts of the decision-making was consideration of sustainability. New fishing methods could easily enable greater hauls and reduce work, but at the same time, increase the risk of overfishing and damage the delicate ecosystems that supported life for these coastal towns. Rules were introduced to prevent this. Although perhaps the scantily-clad, romanticised image of the profession is a thing of the past, there’s still a rich history and culture that needs to be conveyed to younger generations. The tourism industry at Mikimoto Pearl is a great start to help preserve the memory, but the age-old fishing traditions held by small coastal villages are definitely in need of special attention to make sure their heritage isn’t forgotten completely. This culture of national mermaids diving for the nation is not only unique to Japan however. From 2007 Korea has been presenting its best case to have the Haenyo divers of Jeju Island listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. In similar fashion, Japan has now joined the races by recommending its own female divers, boosted by the popularity of a recent NHK drama ‘ Amachan‘, starring a young girl who moves to the Tohoku region of Japan to became an Ama diver. ( Asahi) Anderson’s The Little Mermaid tells a story about how love has no right place, its place is everywhere and inside everyone’s hearts.

Hook (1991) in this retelling of the classic tale of Peter Pan, a man falls in the water and is greeted by a group of majestic and beautiful mermaids.

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She fights off evil with the strength of her music and melodies. Watch this wholesome anime to find out how she protects her kingdom. 6. Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid In what can be seen as the female analogue to The Thirteenth Year, Mia (Luna Wedler) is a 15-year-old girl who appears to be normal but can’t explain why her body is undergoing such radical transformations during puberty. Her adolescence is complicated by the fact that her uncaring father has forced the family to move far away, and Mia struggles both with her parents and the new kids at school, desperately trying at every turn to hide the fact that her body seems to be in the process of transforming into that of a partial sea creature. The Little Mermaid (2018) A live-action adaptation of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The first recorded story of a mermaid—which is the female version of a “merman,” and together they are known as “merfolk”—is the Assyrian goddess Atargatis, who appeared in a myth originating around 1000 BC. According to legend, Atargatis fell in love with a human shepherd, killed him by accident, then jumped into a lake in shame, but the lake could not conceal her beauty and so she continued living. A mermaid presented in John William Waterhouse’s painting from 1900.

Mermaids(1990) despite the title, this comedy starring Cher and Cristina Ricci is a conventional comedy that takes place entirely on land and does not feature half-human/half-fish creatures. The role of the Mikimoto ama was to collect the oysters from the seabed so that the pearl-producing nucleus may be inserted. Once this critical process was completed, the ama then carefully returned the oysters to the seabed – in a place where they were protected from external dangers (such as typhoons and red tide). The most profitable pursuit however was diving for pearls. Traditionally for Ama, finding a pearl inside an oyster was akin to receiving a large bonus while they went about their ancestral practice of collecting shellfish. That changed when Kokichi Mikimoto, founder of Mikimoto Pearl, began his enterprise.The Greek sirens were females who sang beautifully and were originally depicted as half-human/half-birdlike, but the sirens began appearing as mermaids—which is an Old English portmanteau of mere (sea) and maid (young woman) in Christian retellings of Greek mythology. Mermaids perform as strippers in the strange horror musical Lure (2015). This TV movie based on the hit television series Sabrina the Teenage Witch stars Melissa Joan Hart reprising her title role, but this time she travels to Australia with her friend Gwen. Upon arrival, she meets a muscular and charming merman named Barnaby, who lives in a secret mermaid colony. Sabrina falls in love with Barnaby and makes it her mission to protect the colony from discovery by a biologist with bad intentions and capitalist industrialists who seek to economically exploit the colony. H.P. Lovecraft’s Dagon (2001) A dark and gloomy twist on the mermaid theme as filtered through H. P. Lovecraft and an ancient biblical sea god. He added: “You see adverts on television with models who are very thin, but the mermaid is like a tribute to the great majority of women who are curvy, especially in our country. It would have been very bad if we had represented a woman who was extremely skinny.”