Tico and Friends

★6.8 1994 1 Season Adventure, Slice of Life

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. (Source: Anime News Network)

Tico and Friends

Episodes

1. The girl with the killer whale: Nanami the adventuress

2. Caribbean pirates chasing after children!?

3. The Atlantic ocean gang is coming!?

4. Run, run, run!!

5. Rio de Janeiro never sleeps

6. The day we met a sulphur-bottom whale

7. Under the Atlantic: Thomas all alone

8. Sunken boat on the Zaire river: Treasure mystery

9. Boat of hope floating on a mysterious underground lake

10. The Pepelonchino sails across land!

11. Princess Nanami: Dream of the Aegean sea

12. Another Nanami and a happy family

13. Oh! The worst day of Thomas's life

14. Exciting! A lady on the island of Sicily

15. Wonderful unity! Nanami dancing in the sky

16. A new friend!! Tico's baby!

17. Attaboy, Junior! His first deep breath

18. What!! Sheryl, engaged!?

19. Big panic in the North sea oilfield: Protect the seabird!

20. Does Junior hate Nanami!?

21. Shining iceberg! Legend of the North sea aurora

22. Ice labyrinth! Buried time

23. Goodbye forever! Tico's death

24. They who give life: Whalesong sounding in the sea

25. To Japan! In search of memories of mother

26. I met mom! A distant summer's day

27. Ghost story in the fog! St Elmo's ghost-ship

28. Squidball 2 goes into deep sea!

29. Nanami's adventure: An island with butterflies!

30. Miraculous egg which grants eternal beauty

31. Sheryl and Scott: A night on a desert island

32. To the Coelacanth sea: Mystery of the shining monster

33. Scott isn't responding!! Sea that's a devil's lair

34. Raise the sails!! Great chase of the blue whale

35. Last chance! Dad's prayer

36. The light whale in danger: Devil's attack!

37. Ambition awakened! Castle of the southern continent

38. The light whale's guidance: End of the iron castle

39. Departures: The eternal ring of light

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