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This is the tendency for people to long to see the ocean in person, and admire it when they do, especially for the first time. Something about its vastness and majesty causes people to be inspired by it.
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Can overlap with [[Scenery Porn]]. Often found on the [[Beach Episode]].
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== [[Anime]]
* Ayumi from ''[[Kaze no Stigma]]''
* A major plot point in ''[[Kowarekake no Orgel]]'', since Flower has only seen it before on TV.
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* Featured in episode 9 of ''[[Toradora!]]'', appropriately titled ”You, who are going to the sea”.
* Discussed in ''[[Blue Gender]]''; Kaido's [[Shallow Love Interest]] for an episode or two mentions never having seen the sea, Kaido describes it in comparison with the nearby lake and promises to show her one day. He runs to be back with Marlene within the same episode.
* Exhibited by the titular character in the [[Beach Episode]] of ''[[Kaichou wa Maid-sama]]''.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* This is commonly attributed to [[Harry Potter]] in fanfics, with the explanation that the Dursleys actively excluded him from family beach excursions, so he's never actually seen the sea, ever. Despite living on an island.
== [[Film]] ==
* In the ''[[Legend Of 1900]]'' a film with [[Tim Roth]], a guy the main character meets talks about seeing the ocean for the first time and hearing it scream (metaphorically) that the world is immense. Later he meets the man's daughter and she seems to think similar things about the ocean.
* The very timid ''Ninny in The Invisible Child'' by Tove Jansson is terrified of the sea for the reasons other characters would be awed.
* In ''[[Blast from the Past]]'', Brendan Fraser's character (who has been living in a fallout shelter for 30 years and has only just come up into the sunlight) has what might be described as a religious experience when he finally sees the ocean.
* An ongoing theme for Red during the last half of ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''.
* Seen at the end of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
* Used in the movie ''[[Plague Dogs]]''. Todd is the first to decribe the ocean's vastness and Sniffer is the most enthusiastic to get to coast.
* The [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] in ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'' is motivated by a desire to see the Pacific Ocean before he dies from his illness.
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* In the novel ''A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend'', neither the main character nor the titular best friend have ever seen the ocean, so they have plans to go together. Then the best friend, well, dies, and the main character decides she's going to take her friend's ashes and go see the sea anyway. I don't remember whether there was awe, but the longing part was a major plot point.
* True for [[Expy|Kenshin]] in ''[[Half Prince]]'', even though Kenshin, being an NPC, hasn't even heard of the concept of the ocean, and the ocean he stares longingly at once he finally gets there isn't real.
* A major point in the book ''Kira Kira''. (No, not [[
* Tolkien was clearly fond of having a character who'd never seen the sea be impressed by it on first sight. The same happens to Tuor in ''[[The Silmarillion]]''.
* Most of [[David Eddings]]' works feature a moment of this. He also put something of a twist on it in ''[[The Malloreon]]'', when the main characters are being chased by [[Our Zombies Are Different|the Raveners]]. When they reach the seaside, the ghoulish creatures immediately retreat, because, supposes Belgarath, "they're afraid of the one thing that's hungrier than they are."
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