Tico and Friends English Sub & Dub

About Tico and Friends

Meet Tico and Friends (Nanatsu no Umi no Tico), an adventure and slice of life anime by Nippon Animation (1994). Here is the premise in a nutshell. The premise: 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.

Along the way, her father is a marine biologist, and he is in search of a creature known as the glowing whale. When he stumbles on the bones of one of these, he is saddened, and resolves to change his task toward preserving and caring for the creatures. Nanami befriends an Orca which she names Tico, and she goes swimming with it every day.

As an adventure title, exploration, new locations and a steady sense of momentum drive the story. It will appeal most to anyone who enjoys travel-the-world storytelling.

Production & Appeal

Nippon Animation is the studio behind Tico and Friends, and its direction shapes everything from character design to motion. Because it leans on adventure, exploration, new locations and a steady sense of momentum drive the story. At 7.4/10 it earns a solid reception, a safe pick for fans of the genre. Released in 1994, it competed with that season's other new series for attention.