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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 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.
But when a company vacation to tropical Siberia Island seems to awaken memories she had thought forever lost, Maia begins to wonder what secrets her forgotten past holds, and what they may do to her hopes for the future.
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* [[After the End]]: The story takes place after the world's been flooded. Only five or so cities exist.
* [[Against the Setting Sun]]
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* [[Bird Run]]: Maia does it as a child.
* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]
* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: Gloria and Yu; Yu prefers a [[The Frantics|Boot to the Head]] to the [[Paper Fan of Doom]], though.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Gloria's "Ha-ha and ha!", at least in the English dub. Maia's little "why me?" moan/whimper may count as well.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Yu
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* [[Die Hard on an X]]: two-part episode "Die Hard, Play Hard"
* [[Door Step Baby]]: Left on Yu's doorstep. Ultimately subverted.
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Gender flipped. Shizuka finds a guy injuried near trash cans and quickly becomes attached to and protective of him. {{spoiler|The guy's a con artist and calls this his
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[False Camera Effects]]: Particularly the [[Lens Flare]].
* [[The Family for the Whole Family]]: The team of half-siblings -- see [[Running Gag]].
* [[Fan Service]]:
* [[Finagle's Law]]:
* [[First Kiss]]:
* [[Five-Man Band]] (Women, actually):
** [[The Hero]]:
** [[The Smart Guy]]:
** [[The Lancer]]:
** [[The Big Guy]]:
** [[The Chick]]:
* [[Flashback to Catchphrase]]:
* [[Flung Clothing]]:
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]:
** [[Voices Are Mental]] (Lampshaded)
* [[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 shoot anyone coming out. It was because of a plague outbreak they didn't want to spread to other cities. Afterwards they said it merely 'failed to surface'. Maia could reveal the truth if she recovered her memories and this would be 'embarrasing' so they make her life shit.}}
* [[Hair Colors]]:
* [[Here We Go Again]]:
* [[Hidden Eyes]]:
* [[Holographic Terminal]]:
* [[Homage]]:
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]:
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]
* [[Laser Sight]]
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]:
* [[Mascot]]:
* [[Master of Disguise]]:
* [[The Men in Black]]: {{spoiler|They work for the Ocean Agency and kidnap Maia near the end.}}
* [[Mistaken for Dying]]:
* [[New Eden]]:
* [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't]]: How Maia was captured in the second episode.
* [[Panty Fighter]] (Effectively)
* {{spoiler|[[Promotion to Parent]]: Maia's grandfather is actually her ''brother'' who defrosted sixty years before she did.}}
* [[Running Gag]]:
** [[That Other Wiki]]
*** Rena deducting pay off salary for any botches, usually Gloria or Maia.
*** Yu hitting Gloria when in disagreements.
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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.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
* [[Sick Sad World]]: For every scene of someone happy, there's five or so of something bad.
* [[Stock Footage]]:
* [[Stripperiffic]]:
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Rena feels this way at times.
* [[Survival Mantra]]:
* [[Suspended Animation]]:
* [[There Are No Therapists]] (Averted -- we see a pair of psychologists who work with {{spoiler|the young amnesiac Maia}} for two years. Then again, {{spoiler|they are part of the conspiracy trying to ensure that Maia's memory never comes back}}.)
* [[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]]:
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Nobody ever seems to notice the extremely skimpy outfits the Nereids wear while on the job. Possibly justified by the fact that the cities all have tropical climates where it's summer all year; skimpy clothing is presumably common (although we never see anyone else in clothes quite ''that'' skimpy...).
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]:
* [[X-Ray Sparks]]
* [[Zany Scheme]]:
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