Where can I find information about a japanese anime cartoon featuring mermaids?
Mermaid Saga The best known manga mermaid series is Mermaid Saga by Rumiko Takahashi. Rumiko Takahashi is one of the most famous and successful manga writers in Japan. Her other series, Urusei Yatsura (Those Obnoxious Aliens) and Ranma 1/2, are classics, especially the former. Her mermaid stories differ from her other work in that they are horror stories! In Japan there is a legend that if you eat the flesh of a mermaid you will become immortal. Well, yes, but there is one problem. Everyone who eats the flesh of a mermaid becomes immortal, some remaining as they are for all eternity, but many others are transformed by it into monsters. They may take on the actual forms of monsters, or they may keep their human form but become dangerously psychotic. The manga Mermaid Saga follows the adventures of Yuta and Mana. Yuta was a fisherman who became immortal 500 years ago,Mana a young girl who became immortal recently. Together they are searching for a living mermaid to tell them how to ride
