Daphne in the Brilliant Blue

Global warming has caused flooding worldwide and many countries have simply vanished underwater; a premise familiar from Patlabor and Blue Submarine No. Six, but employed here for reasons that seem to have more to do with the falling costs of CG water-modeling (compare to Aria) and the handy excuse for having lots of characters wearing tight swimwear. Gifted student Maia Mizuki fails in the application exam for the top-flight quasi-governmental organization known as the Oceanographic Agency, but is rescued from a robber by Rena and Shizuka, two employees of a multifunctional service corporation known as NEREIS.They've been engaged to catch the robber and blackmail the destitute Maia into acting as bait. She fills time before her next exam by working as a troubleshooter for NEREIS, in a series of setups that are enough to make Agent Aika seem demure. Maia's supposed brains are at odds with her pliant attitude; paid a pittance and constantly picked on by Rena and Shizuka, she stays with NEREIS through such thrilling operations as finding a stolen car, helping a salaryman save face with his daughter, and looking after an abandoned baby. Then she goes on a quest to find her lost memories, which have not previously been mentioned but revolve round her father's female bodyguard and her late grandfather, whose dying word was "Daphne." This involves a Mafia subplot, her being kidnapped by the Oceanographic Agency-apparently they want her for a purpose too sinister to just give her a job-and a visit to a ruined city where she uncovers their secret plot and her own past. Created by NeSKeS, whose choice of pen name confirms a fondness for the pointlessly cryptic. A manga also appeared in Young King Ours magazine.

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Season/Ep#	Name		Airdate
1 - 26	Heaven Can Wait For Maia Mizuki	Currently 4.0/5 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	10/22/2004
1 - 25	Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Nereids, But Were Afraid To Ask	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 24	Daphne In The Brilliant Blue	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	07/03/2004
1 - 23	Escape From Hamchatha	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 22	Everyday Life of an Eye and Recollection	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 21	What Happened to Maia?	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 20	Once Upon a Time in Siberia	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 19	Submarine "Yomogi No. 1" Doesn`t Rise to the Surface	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 18	Conflicts Winding Down	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 17	Defeated by a Baby	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 16	The Great Surge (Part 2)	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 15	The Great Surge (Part 1)	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 14	The Elderly and UMA	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 13	Giving Hatred	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 12	The Day the World Surfaced	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 11	Like this for a Long Visit	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 10	Siberian Special Vacation	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 9	I'm the Only One Without a Tomorrow	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 8	Risk Everything For Speed!	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
1 - 7	All That, Papa	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5

	Person Name	Episode Count
	Takashi Ikehata	6
	Kazunori Iwakura	6
	Ko Otani	7

Name	Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
Name:	光と水のダフネ
Romaji:	Hikari to Mizu no Daphne
Publisher	J.C. Staff
Start Year	2004
Genres	Add a new genre Action Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Themes	Add a new theme Futuristic Guns
Aliases	Daphne of Light and Water

Shizuka Hayama first in Maia's Longest Day (Part 1)	7
Maia Mizuki first in Maia's Longest Day (Part 1)	7
Rena Honjo first in Maia's Longest Day (Part 1)	7
Gloria first in There's No Work as Great as Neres?	5
Yu Park first in Chacachaca Banban	4
Tsutomu Hanaoka	3

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