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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), ''[['''Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]''''' tells the story of [[Tsundere|Nadia]], a girl who's trying to find out about her past, Jean, a boy who wants to build a flying machine, and the [[MacGuffin|Blue Water]], a mysterious gem of Nadia's with strange powers. Their world is home to two shadowy groups in conflict: Neo-Atlantis, who want to rule the world, and the crew of the submarine Nautilus, who have sworn to oppose Neo-Atlantis. These two plots are not unconnected...
 
This series originally aired starting in 1990 on NHK -- JapaneseNHK—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.
 
(Entry originally written by Rob Kelk for [http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/primer/ The Anime Primer], and used with permission of the author.)
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* [[Furo Scene]]: Two with Nadia. The first one is shared with Electra and Marie and the second one (on a western bathtub) is with Grandis.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Two of them -- [[Geek|Jean]], the heroic and goodhearted main character, and Hanson, a member of the Grandis gang.
* [[Granola Girl]]: Nadia is a vegetarian, a pacifist, and generally skeptical of technological progress in general -- whichgeneral—which sometimes poses problems in her friendship/budding romance with [[Gadgeteer Genius]] [[Geek|Jean]] -- although—although she does eventually abandon this attitude.
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: Gravitational Cognizance variety.
* [[Good Costume Switch]]: Grandis is the first villain of the series and wears a military uniform. When she announces her [[Heel Face Turn]] she's wearing a dress and it becomes her standard outfit (unless she's going into battle).
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*** As a matter of fact Nadia even lays into Jean when he offers her manmade flowers (that Ensign Fait generously gives the boy) or attempts to compliment her in the abovementioned episode (as Electra advised him to). Naturally, this only succeeds in confusing poor Jean—to the point where he is surprised when she finally plucks the courage to ask him directly for a compliment for an (awkwardly fashioned out of canvas) dress in episode 26. (Fourteen episodes earlier, she doesn't succeed in getting a compliment from Jean about a dress she's wearing since the latter is busy reading a book, but in that case she was sort of expecting him to read her mind and not knowing how else to act.)
*** In that same episode, Nadia furiously declares to Nemo that she hates him and the Nautilus crew; he slaps her for saying that, adding in a stern tone, "Please don't say sad things like that" ("You have made me very sad." in the dub).
** On the flipside, she ''does'' apologize to Jean numerous times for her misdirected anger, even going out of her way to bring him something to eat, go on walks with him, or anything else reconciliatory (in the [[Canon|canonicalcanon]]ical episodes), {{spoiler|but she never gets to do so to Nemo, even though she realizes too late that she could have been nicer.}}
* [[Just Between You and Me]]
* [[Kikuko Inoue]]: Electra
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* [[Multinational Team]]: Nemo's crew is assembled from people that hate Gargoyle for various reasons. It seems Gargoyle is unpopular the world over....
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: Involving actual mushrooms!
* [[Musical Episode]]: Episode 34, at the end of the [[Filler]] arc, using [[Image Song|Image Songs]]s strung around an plot of Jean trying to express his feelings for Nadia through song. The English dub cast actually sang their own versions of the songs in this episode.
* [[Mysterious Antarctica]]: Nemo's base is here. Also the [[World Tree]].
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Nadia, I am your father]]: {{spoiler|Captain Nemo.}}
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* [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Sanson has bad luck at this game.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: A villager from the Africa arc who recognizes the Blue Water. {{spoiler|It turns out that he's already engaged.}} [[Ass Pull|This arc is both out of step with the rest of the show and frankly, doesn't make sense]], since {{spoiler|Nadia admitted that Jean was important to her in the previous episode. The motivations behind her subsequent behavior in Africa is not at all clear.}} Unsurprisingly, [[Canon Discontinuity|Episode 35 promptly disregards this two-episode sidestory]].
** Could also qualify as a [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]], although the island/Africa arc has plenty of such pointless scenes, hence the reason why it is criticized so harshly.
* [[Sand Bridge At Low Tide]]: The only way to access their escape pod during the unfortunate island arc. (Get the picture yet? SKIP THE ISLAND AND AFRICA ARCS!)
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: One of the more infamous examples is an 80's-looking telephone on board the Nautilus (in 1889), which is supposed to {{spoiler|be thousands of years old}}.
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