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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
ふしぎの海のナディア
1990 · TV series · 25 min episodes · 1 season
AnimationActionAdventureScience FictionFantasyDramaFamily
In mankind's grasp for the future, a sinister foe known only as Gargoyle begins his plans to take over the world. Nadia, with the help of a young inventor, Jean Ratlique, and Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus, must fight to save the world from Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis.
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is one of my all time favorite anime. While I think that many criticisms of the island arc are valid, I don't think it should detract anyone from watching it from start to finish and I wouldn't recommend skipping it, either.
While I'm happy that someone went to the trouble of recreating a different cut of the show based on official work, I don't know that it's really even necessary, just as I rarely find those sorts of efforts (which happen somewhat frequently in anime, where they condense tv shows into movies) to be very good.
Another example: Just a few weeks ago somebody released a restoration (painstakingly recreated frame-for-frame from bluray source) of Nadia: The Nautilus Story. This is a substantially cut-down version of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water that removes a ton of filler as well as many widely hated episodes (island arc). Originally it existed only on Laserdisc, with very poor quality audio and video and no subtitles. A high quality copy of this never existed until last month. No corporation ever would have done this.