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{{quote|''Are you adventurers? Are you prepared to climb the blue waterfall named The Perilous? Do you seek the truth of the legend that lies therein? If you do, then you must first find me.''|'''Opening narration'''.}}
Set in 1889 and ''extremely'' loosely based on [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' (to the point of being an [[In Name Only]] adaptation), ''
This series originally aired starting in 1990 on NHK—Japanese public broadcasting (the Japanese equivalent of [[BBC]]). Carl Macek's [[Streamline Pictures]] released a VHS of the first eight episodes. Years later, [[ADV Films|ADV]] translated and released the entire 39-episode TV series as well as the maligned, mostly forgotten movie sequel on DVD.
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(Entry originally written by Rob Kelk for [http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/primer/ The Anime Primer], and used with permission of the author.)
Just for the record, this series was the one that gave Hideaki Anno his first Animage Grand Prix before penning out his biggest masterpiece, ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''... or rather, the reason ''NGE'' is such a mindscrew. It has been purported that the stress of working on a tight schedule, on a series over which he had almost no creative control was a key factor in precipitating Anno into a [[Creator Breakdown|four-year-long bout of depression]] from which he emerged just before (some say while) doing ''Eva''.
A remastered version was released on Blu-Ray in Japan in 2011. [[ADV Films|Sentai Filmworks]]
See also ''[[Nadia Omake Gekijou]]'', a set of short animations created as humorous, explanatory [[Omake]] for the series.
▲A remastered version was released on Blu-Ray in Japan in 2011. [[ADV Films|Sentai Filmworks]] has re-licensed the series, and will be re-releasing it on Blu-ray and DVD in March 2014. (It is unknown if this will be the remastered version or the original, though.)
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* [[Adorkable]]: Jean, definitely. Even Nadia's English voice actress has said she would date someone like him in a heartbeat. Hanson, too, once he switches sides.
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* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Sanson breaks out of prison by ''bending the bars''. Later he stops the punch from a mecha twice his size. Both were bare handed.
* [[Circling Birdies]]
* [[Circus Brat]]: Nadia.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]
* [[Clip Show]]:
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** Electra does the same when she finally learns that Nemo actually ''does'' care about her, and tries to shoot herself. Nemo talks her out of such behavior.
* [[Dropped Glasses]]: Minor subversion: the glasses are repaired almost immediately to demonstrate the technological capabilities of the Nautilus.
* [[Early Teen Hero]]: Both Nadia and Jean are fourteen. This age is crucial here, as the series gets dark ''real quickly''.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Subverted. The people who call Nadia "princess" rarely seem to have her best interests in mind.
* [[Evil Chancellor]]: [[Big Bad|Gargoyle]] used to be this, before pulling off a (mostly) successful coup and moving on to better things.
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* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: See [[Fan Service]] above...
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: {{spoiler|Emperor Neo is Nadia's older brother.}}
* [[Love At First Sight]]: About the sole reason Jean is following Nadia from the beginning.
* [[Loveable Rogue]]: The Grandis gang. In most ways they end up being much bigger heroes than the [[Designated Hero|title character]].
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* [[Number Two]]: Electra
* [[Ocular Gushers]]
* [[Older Is Better]]: Atlantean technology outperforms anything else available in the setting (or, for that matter, anything available in Real Life in 2020).
* [[One Bullet Left]]{{context}}
* [[Official Couple]]: Nadia and Jean
* [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]]: averted by Gargoyle's mooks reporting how his dark matter I.E. commerce in wool and banking, is proceeding and how it is paying for things like his submarine and the Tower of Babel.
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: Borderline case. While Jean and Nadia are very much a pair (the epilogue to the series makes that a clear with their eventual marriage), and Jean does contribute significantly to the development and resolution of the storyline, he seems like a secondary character rather than a co-lead much of the time, subordinate to Nadia, around whom the story revolves.
* [[Oracular Urchin]]
* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: The Blue Water.
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* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: Jean install one on the cockpit of the plane it build, Nadia touches it {{spoiler|resulting in her and Marie's death. Though it was [[All Just a Dream|just a dream.]]}}
* [[Shadow Archetype]]
* [[Short Title: Long Elaborate Subtitle]]: ''Nadia'' is one word. ''The Secret of Blue Water'' is five.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', ''[[Gamera]]'', ''[[Tarzan]]'', ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]]'', ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' and [[Gunbuster|others]].
** And, of course, multiple shout outs to Jules Verne's works that weren't directly used in the plot.
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** Considering that ''Nadia'' is older than ''Evangelion'', the "suspicious resemblance" goes the other way.
* [[Underboobs]] Nadia inadvertently reveals hers while adjusting her top. Naturally, [[Accidental Pervert|Poor Jean can't help but look.]]
* [[Veganism and Vegetarianism]]: Nadia is a vegetarian, and lectures the other characters about her lifestyle.
* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: The Tower of Babel, located in several places in the show: Gargoyle's base, Tartessos, and, ultimately, Red Noah.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Nadia?!]]:
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