Triton of the Sea

Triton of the Sea
The cover for Triton of the Sea volume 1 from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition.
海のトリトン (Umi no Toriton)
Genre	Adventure
Manga
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Sankei Shimbun
Original run	September 1, 1969 – December 31, 1971
Volumes	4
Anime television series
Directed by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Written by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Studio	Animation Staff Room
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	April 1, 1972 – September 30, 1972
Episodes	27
Anime film
Directed by	Kazunori Tanahashi
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	July 14, 1979
Runtime	74 minutes

Triton of the Sea (海のトリトン, Umi no Toriton^?) is a manga series created by Osamu Tezuka, and an anime directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino based on the manga. The series, which had 27 episodes, was broadcast from April 1 to September 30, 1972. Digital Manga successfully crowd-funded the U.S. release of the manga on Kickstarter in 2012.

5000 years ago, the Triton Family was living peacefully in Atlantis until the Poseidon Family destroyed them all out of envy for their successes. The race of mermen was annihilated, leaving Triton the last survivor of his kind. Ruka took the orphaned Triton to Japan to protect him from his enemies.

Triton was taken in as a baby by the human boy, Kazuya Yasaki (矢崎和也). But Poseidon set off a huge tsunami that destroyed Kazuya's village and killed his father. Kazuya, his mother and Triton then moved to Tokyo. However, Kazuya was cheated out of his salary and in his anger committed murder. He becomes a fugitive and works on a ship that, unbeknown to Kazuya, delivers goods to Poseidon's base.

As he grows older, Triton returns to the sea with his dolphin friends to take revenge on the Poseidon family.

With his dolphin friends Ruka, Uru, Karu and Fin, he proceeds on a one-man war against the Poseidon family. During his journey, Triton meets Pipiko, the last surviving mermaid. Together, they work to stop Poseidon and his evil minions and get vengeance for their family.

Triton kills all of Poseidon's 33 children one after another. Then he decided to go inside Poseidon's marine base to try to kill him. Supported by the human slaves working at the base, they almost succeeded, only to be betrayed by one of the slaves.

During his battle with one of Poseidon's sons, Triton came to know Ganomosu, the big turtle who has lived for many years at sea and is very wise. Ganomosu advised Triton to live on a floating island which is his granddad's shell and is surrounded by seven whirlpools.