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{{quote|''"[[Survival Mantra|A tree planted near the water bears fruit, but only when its time is right.]]''
''[[Arc Words|Its leaves won't ever wither, and it brings prosperity to all.]]"''
|'''Maia Mizuki'''}}
In an unspecified future year, [[After the End|long after global warming has inundated the world]], a young girl named Maia Mizuki is expecting to get a job at the prestigious Oceans Agency. She's an obvious shoo-in for one of the limited number of positions available, having passed the grueling qualifying exam (which is offered only once a year) with flying colors. But she is inexplicably rejected and within days finds herself not only jobless but homeless, too. An amnesiac orphan whose only living relative, her grandfather, died shortly before, Maia has no one to turn to, and faster than she can comprehend she finds herself stumbling penniless (thanks to a pickpocket) through the seedier side of the city she's lived in all her life. And just when it seems like things can't get worse, a criminal takes her hostage [[Shoot the Hostage|and she is shot by the women chasing him]].
Maia comes to some hours later on the couch of Nereids ("Neres" in the original Japanese), a troubleshooting agency which is staffed by the women. Manipulated into helping with their case against the criminal and her brother, Maia shows quick wit and ingenuity in the field and soon finds herself offered both a job and a place to live at Nereids. Although her days seem to alternate between boring scut work and life-threatening danger, and her coworkers are often rude and volatile, Maia (to her surprise) starts to find a certain satisfaction in her job -- although she is intent on reapplying to the Oceans Agency when the next set of positions open up in a year's time.
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* [[The Future]]
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: Every ally (and [[Friendly Enemy]]) comes to {{spoiler|Maia's aid when she's kidnapped.}}
* [[Government Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|Maia is from a city that was sealed off by the other cities. And by 'sealed off' I mean they stationed submarines at the gates and
* [[Hair Colors]]: Shizuka's purple; Rena's red and Gloria's blonde may well be "real", though.
* [[Here We Go Again]]: Subverted: In the last minutes of the last episode, we see the Ocean Agency exam held a year after the one that started the series; a girl who appears to be Maia with the same applicant number clocks in with as good a score on the field exercise as Maia had a year previously -- but the moment she reports in, we can see it's someone else entirely, and Tsukasa subsequently worries about Maia making the application deadline.
* [[Hidden Eyes]]: Maia, several times.
* [[Holographic Terminal]]: Desktop and larger systems all seem to use projected screens rather than physical ones.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Many episode titles are plays on the names of famous movies or literary works: "The Old Kook and the Sea", "Anger's Aweigh", "Die Hard, Play Hard", "Five Heavily Armed Women and a Baby"; this editor is unsure if this is specific to the dub.{{verify}}▼
▲* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Many episode titles are plays on the names of famous movies or literary works: "The Old Kook and the Sea", "Anger's Aweigh", "Die Hard, Play Hard", "Five Heavily Armed Women and a Baby"; this editor is unsure if this is specific to the dub.
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]
* [[Laser Sight]]
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*** Hanaoka's daughter getting angry at her father.
*** May and the Wong-Chang-Lee brothers taking the submarine back from Nereids who do the same.
* [[Siblings in Crime]]: The Wong-Chang-Lee brothers.
* [[Sick Sad World]]: For every scene of someone happy, there's five or so of something bad.
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* [[Survival Mantra]]: The page quote.
* [[Suspended Animation]]: {{spoiler|Maia and her big brother.}}
* [[There Are No Therapists]]:
* [[True Companions]]: No matter how much grief Nereids gives Maia, they really do care about her deep down. Milly and Tsukasa even more so because they don't give her such grief.
* [[Underwater City]]: They play an important role in the backstory of the world of the series. {{spoiler|And in Maia's backstory, as well.}}
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