Format: TV
Episodes: 39
Episode length: 25 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Jan 16, 1994
Until: Dec 18, 1994
Season: Winter 1994
Source: Original
Average score: 68%
Mean score: 71%
Popularity: 1,971
Favorites: 25
Studio: Nippon Animation
Genres: Adventure, Slice of Life
Romaji: Nanatsu no Umi no Tico
English: Tico and Friends
Native: 七つの海のティコ
Synonyms: Sekai Meisaku Gekijou Tico and Nanami World Masterpiece Theater WMT Ein Toller Freund Tico et ses amis Tico y sus Amigos Un oceano di avventure Un oceano di avventure per Tico e Nancy

Tico and Friends

★ 6.8 1,971 members

Nanami Simpson is a young girl. Her mother dies when she is young, and she goes to live with her Father, Scott Simpson, on board a Marine Research Vessel , the Peperonchino. Her Father is a Marine Biologist, and he is in search of a creature known as the Glowing Whale. When He finds the bones of one of these, he is saddened, and resolves to change his mission towards preserving and caring for the creatures. Nanami befriends an Orca which she names Tico, and She goes swimming with it every day. Eventually, she learns to breathe Underwater which astounds her Father. Nanami nearly drowns one day, and one of the glowing whales saves her from certain death and returns her to the vessel, where her Father finally gets to see it.

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