Toei company-The Little Mermaid remake movie and series review

Here's a look at a Toei animation remake of the Little Mermaid, enjoy!

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## Plot

The movie opens in live-action Denmark. The narrator mentions Hans Christian Andersen, who is from there, and his original story. The scene then dissolves to 2-D hand-drawn anime.

Princess Marina, who lives in the undersea kingdom with her father, grandmother and five older sisters, plays with her best friend Fritz, a dolphin, before getting caught in a storm conjured by the Sea Witch. Once home, she is scolded by her sisters for being late, reminding her that their grandmother will not give her the pearl hairpin that signifies adulthood unless she is responsible. The following day, Marina's sisters go to the surface. Marina is forbidden to go because she has not yet come of age. While exploring a sunken ship, Marina discovers a statue of a human prince. She and Fritz sneak to the surface, where she sees the same prince on a ship.

Another storm arises and throws the prince into the sea. Marina saves him and brings him to shore, leaving him there to be found. A raven-haired girl finds the prince and cares for him. Because of her rescue of a human, Marina's grandmother decides that she is ready to come of age, and Marina receives her pearl hairpin.

Determined to see the prince again and gain an immortal soul, Marina visits the Sea Witch, who gives her a potion that will make her human, although in exchange, she must give the Sea Witch her beautiful voice and will never be able to become a mermaid again. The Sea Witch warns her that if the prince marries another, she will die and dissolve into sea foam the next morning. After a heartfelt goodbye to her family and Fritz, Marina drinks the potion and is transformed.

She is discovered by the prince on the shore, and lives with him for a month. The two become close and the prince tells her that his parents want him to marry a foreign princess but he wants to marry the girl who saved his life. Since he cannot find her, he wishes to marry Marina. The prince's jealous cat, Jemmy, who vows to get rid of Marina, reports the conversation to the prince's parents, and the queen suspects that Marina has bewitched her son. When the foreign princess arrives, the prince's father orders Marina to be arrested for treason. The prince recognizes the foreign princess as the same raven-haired girl who had supposedly saved him. They are soon to be married. Luckily, after Fritz summons a grand calvary of whales, gulls, pelicans, various sharks, fish, eels and sea creatures to attack the Sea Witch, Fritz yells in the witch's face and thanks to Seymour the blacktip reef shark after he makes a bite on the sea witch's tail, Marina reclaims her voice. Luckily, the Sea King zaps with his trident which turns the sea witch into a sea dragon (a relative of the sea horse) and then, the squid, sea turtles, eels, the sharks and other creatures laugh as The Great Sea King tells Gulliver the seagull that Marina just got her voice back and all ends well. So, everyone lives happily ever after, whilst the Sea Witch (who's now a leafy sea dragon) says "Very funny" as the sharks and squid still laugh. At the end of movie the seafoam spell is broken as the mermaid-turned-princess marina (who gets an immortal soul thanks to the Sea King) and prince get married and everyone celebrates, as we cut to a statue of the little mermaid on which Gulliver the gull, lands and finishes the story on a happy ending note.