Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea
大海原と大海原 (Wadanohara to ōinaru aoi umi)
Game
Developer	Kaitei Shujin
Genre	Adventure Dark fantasy Role-playing
Engine	RPG Maker 2000
Platform	Microsoft Windows
Released	December 21, 2013 (original) February 1, 2020 (reboot)
Manga
Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea
Written by	Kaitei Shujin
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten (Japan) Seven Seas Entertainment (International)
Published	December 26, 2015 - August 20, 2021
Volumes	3

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea (Japanese: 大海原と大海原, Hepburn: Wadanohara to ōinaru aoi umi) is a 2013 Japanese adventure role-playing video game developed by Kaitei Shujin, under her alias Deep-Sea Prisoner or Funamusea, using the RPG Maker 2000 program like its predecessor. Described in a video game as a "pseudo-RPG with a heavy story focus", the young sea witch named Wadanohara has just returned from a journey across the oceans, searching for a clue to mysteriously lost memories.

The original Japanese version of the game is released as freeware for Microsoft Windows in December 21, 2013, with an English translation is available in February 4, 2014, translated by vgperson, who also translates RPG Maker games into English versions including Palette, Misao, Ib, The Witch's House, and Your Turn To Die.

Gameplay

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea is a dark fantasy video game set in a fairytale-like sea world filled with friendly and dangerous anthropomorphic creatures, mostly are sea animals. The game world is kept largely linear gameplay, but occasionally changes into an open world. As in many RPG Maker games, it features;

• The player uses the keyboard (Arrow Keys to move, Z and X to interact and menu) to control the characters.
• The combat system is turn based, and the characters can become stronger through winning battles.
• It is possible to equip characters with armor and weapons to increase combat power.
• The playable characters are able to use magical and physical abilities.
• The game's difficulty is easier to play for everyone due to lack of battle playthrough.

Plot

An unknown sea witch, who is narrating her story to the player, where the story follows to the young sea witch of the titular character, Wadanohara, returns to the Blue Sea after a trip, but Samekichi, an ex-familiar, blocks their way for not entering the Blue Sea and tells her she should leave the sea forever, but they stopped him before Samekichi leaves afar. Wadanohara returns to the Blue Sea after a trip, and is greeted by the residents there as well as her caretaker Tatsumiya, however, tells her that things start to go downhill when war is declared on her ocean home by the Totsusa Kingdom, led by Princess Tosatsu, sends their bunny soldiers over in attempt of invasion.

The employees of the Blue Sea's court state that they would like to avoid invasion as much as possible, but only a prime suspect among them is possibly Samekichi. Suddenly, Wadanohara disagrees about him and is sent with her familiars to repair the six blue orbs that connect into a barrier protecting the Blue Sea. Every time Wadanohara fixes an orb, she states that something feels strange. After fixing every orb, Wadanohara approaches at a rocky mount island, but the killer whale Orca appears, nearly beating Samekichi to death. Wadanohara pleads Orca to stop from killing him, which in result to Orca leaves. She heals Samekichi from his injuries, but he insults her for keeping her stay to the sea with her familiars, results he inadvertently leaves the island.

The Blue Sea has a banquet in celebration of it. During the banquet, Wadanohara goes to the surface, and then encounters Laurentia, a demon mercenary employed by the Totsusa Kingdom. It unknowningly destroys the barrier, allowing the Totsusa Kingdom to invade. After making it through the invading Totsusa Soldiers, Wadanohara and her familiars manage to make it to the throne room just as Totsusahime is cornering Uomihime. From there, the two girls are quick to make up, the whole issue being something the latter did not even do, but Wadanohara and her familiars rush to the Blue Sea and only seen it is Syakesan, transforms into the humanoid version of himself and reveals his true nature as a prime suspect of the Blue Sea and the ambassador of the Sea of Death, the one who destroys the Cast Pearl using the sacred sword he stole, made her use his fake pearl ring earlier to nearly corrupt her mind after all of the orbs repaired, trick them into war against two kingdoms, and unleashes Princess Mikotsu, his familiars, and undead-like grotesque creatures from the Sea of Death into conquer all the territories.

Wadanohara, along with her familiars and Samekichi, trapped in a bloodied abyss inside of Sea of Death while Samekichi did not betray to them, including Wadanohara, but they apologized for his actions and proceeds to find a way out, where they encountered Syakesan, but she faints. In Wadanohara's flashback, Syakesan confronts her in the Old Sea, attempts to sexually assault her, but he felt strange and mentioned Wadanohara has a relationship with Samekichi before the latter arrives to save her from Syakesan. After she awakes, they decided to fight against Syakesan's familiars with her allies including Princess Tosatsu and her soldiers and familiars to protect them, before they rush over the tower.

While inside the tower, Syakesan abducts Samekichi, the latter tells them to move on, which Wadanohara agrees. She and her familiars reached to the emptied throne room, but she was abruptly transported into the near Old Sea, leaving her familiars behind. Without her familiars, Wadanohara leads to the Old Sea, where she encounters Samekichi, Syakesan, and gravely succumbed Princess Mikotsu. Syakesan demands Wadanohara to trust him to conquer the sea and make her a slave, but she refuses his offer, proceeds to question his actions. Apparently, Syakesan stabs her with a sword and disappearing into the gate, leaving them to die. Samekichi, desperate to save her and the sea she loves, decides to close the gate to chase after Syakesan. As she begs him to not do it, he kissed her, regains all of her sealed away memories and realizes the strong feelings that she has for Samekichi. She then confesses to him that she loves more than someone else, but she is struggle to stop him from entering the gate and faints from bleeding.

The sea has been saved, but Wadanohara is left devastated, believing that if she wanted to be a better witch that she could have stopped him. But after some encouraging words from Fukami and finding her lost ocarina, Wadanohara comes to resolve and decides to become a great witch for Samekichi and promises that she will always believe in him and his return.

As years goes by without her familiars, Wadanohara, now became the Great Sea Witch who narrates the beginning of the game, is gracefully reunited with then eye-patched Samekichi under the full moon.

Characters

• Wadanohara (Japanese: 和田原) - a sea witch and the main protagonist of the game.
• Samekichi (Japanese: 鮫吉) - a great white shark and Wadanohara's ex-familiar who warned her strictly for not entering the Blue Sea.
• Syakesan (Japanese: しゃけさん) - an albino shark who is Wadanohara's former servant and Samekichi's older brother. In the English version, he was named Sal (Syakesan's translated name was Salmon in Japanese as a pun) by vgperson.
• Fukami (Japanese: 深見) - an octopus and one of Wadanohara's familiar.
• Memoca (Japanese: メモカ) - a seagull and one of Wadanohara's familiar.
• Dolpi (Japanese: ドルピ) - a dolphin and one of Wadanohara's familiar.
• Tatsumiya (Japanese: 辰巳) - an oarfish and Wadanohara's caretaker.

Media

Manga

In August 2015, Kaitei Shujin released her first adaptation as a manga online via Gene Pixiv, before being later published as a paperback by Kadokawa Shoten, labels as an "all-ages adventure". In 2017, it was announced that Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea was licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment for the English-speaking market. The complete manga was released in a single volume in July 2017. Once the first two volumes of the manga was completed, Kadokawa Shoten did not print or translate the third and final volume of the manga, also known as Sea of Death Arc (Japanese: 死の海編, Hepburn: Shi no umi-hen), which depicts the second half of the game. The Japanese version of the third volume can currently be read on Pixiv.net for free as well as unofficial English fan translations have been created for it. It was released on August 20, 2021.

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	December 26, 2015	—	July 4, 2017 (omnibus)	ISBN 978-1645-05080-3 Search this book on .
2	November 26, 2016	—	July 4, 2017 (omnibus)	ISBN 978-1645-05081-0 Search this book on .
3	August 20, 2021	—	Late 2021 (unofficial)	—

Developments

After the completion of her second game The Grey Garden, Deep-Sea Prisoner has said that she was working on a game with a fairytale-like atmosphere. The game was programmed using RPG Maker 2000 for Windows systems, she came up with the original title of the game, Oounabara to Wadanohara, after having decided on the main story beats instead of primarily a role-playing game genre.

Initially, she wanted to add more violent elements to the whole game, but refuse to do so, and later proceeds to the second half.

Reboot

In February 2020, it was re-released as "Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea -Reboot-", only in Japanese version in the same game engine, which features new animations and characters as well as more story dialogues and less battle elements.

External links

• Wadanohara and the Deep Blue Sea by Anime News Network
• Wadanohara and the Deep Blue Sea by vgperson.com
• Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea -Reboot-

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