31 Days of Halloween 2009 - Mermaid Forest


Sort of touching story if you discount the constant near-deaths and gruesome maimings, it's the story of a man who ate mermaid flesh (long story short: makes you immortal if it doesn't kill or mutilate you first) and a young woman he encounters a few centuries later, who has also eaten mermaid flesh, due to some twisted mermaid plot. They decide to travel together, encountering others who have eaten mermaids, or want to eat mermaids, and stopping them from committing horrible acts.

It's all about mermaids, in other words, and immortality - the main hero, Yuta, just wants to grow old and die, and Mana comes to realize she just wants to be with Yuta (and possibly not get kidnapped so much).

As I said, sweet if you ignore the deformed monsters they encounter along the way which remind them of the atrocities committed in search of the immortality they achieved.

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