Nozomi Entertainment may be setting a number of their new Anime Expo announcements for early 2016 release, but one of them is coming a bit sooner with Umi Monogatari this fall. Ahead of that and the details of the release, the distributor has now put the teaser trailer for the series online that they showed at the convention. Directed by Junichi Sato (Sailor Moon, ARIA The ANIMATION), Umi Monogatari is a 13-episode series featuring animation from Hal Film Maker (ARIA The ANIMATION, Sketchbook ~full color’s~). The series aired in Japan in the summer of 2009.
The thirteen episode run will be released in the fall of 2015 with Japanese audio, English subtitles, and on-screen translations.
Plot concept: Marin and her sister Urin live in the sea. One day they find a ring fallen into the sea. They get out of the sea and meet a girl Kanon, the owner of the ring. Kanon tells them she doesn’t want the ring anymore because it was given by her boyfriend whom she just broke up with, and she throws it into the forest. Marin thinks Kanon is still in love with him and looks for the ring with her sister. But Urin accidentally breaks a seal near a shrine…