Santa Company: Manatsu no Merry Christmas

Santa Company is a worldwide organization dedicated to delivering presents to children. Santa Company's elves—known as "tonttus"—aid several Santas every year by wrapping presents, raising reindeer, and helping with deliveries. Mint Rondo is one of the many new tonttus arriving at Santa Company's tropical island office. Following in her older brother's footsteps, Mint begins training alongside her friend, Thomas Dou, and rival, Noah, to eventually become a Santa herself. Unfortunately, her clumsiness causes her to fall far behind her peers and into her brother's shadow.

One day, while sitting on the beach, Mint, Thomas, and Noah discover the biggest threat that Santa Company has faced yet: ocean pollution! With the accumulation of litter going unnoticed, the growing hazard will soon endanger the surrounding ocean wildlife and the of the Santa Company. As trouble looms over the horizon, Mint might just be able to clean up her act and save everyone on the island in time for Christmas Eve.

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Rondo, Mint Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Noah Main

Yamashita, Mami Japanese

Dou, Thomas Main

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Edison ing

Furuya, Toru Japanese

Panal ing

Satou, Masaharu Japanese

Itoso, Kenji Director, Script, Original Creator

Abe, Nobuyuki Sound Director

STU48 Theme Song Performance

APAZZI Theme Song Arrangement

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Jan 28, 2021

Aspier

Recommended

Well... What should I say

The anime itself was better than I expected it to be, the art was great and the ending was amazing.
The story was all over the place and didn’t really make a lot of sense, but it did what it was supposed to do:
Tell people about all the trash in the ocean

As this anime is probably aimed at kids aged 4-9 you can’t expect much story.

Characters were alright, I especially liked Thomas and Santa.

... For being free, this anime was really good.

The live chat made the anime pretty funny, shoutout to Google Mail and all the other amazing people!

Anyway, Im tired, bye

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 10, 2023

chessplayer798

Mixed Feelings

story- 4
while I love the message, the story itself is not very well executed, I think the biggest limiting factor was the 30 minute run times, due to this they could not have the proper setup needed in order to establish needed plot points. Additionally for being a 30-minute show, the begging was far to slow, it felt like 80% of the episode was just an introduction
Art-6
while there are some problems with CGI it is overall pretty fine and I liked the color pallet,
sound-8
easy the best part of the show, the sound design and music was actually very good and fit the atmosphere
Character-5
the ... charters felt uninspired and dull, nothing really unique, but this is not there fault once again it is hard to make an interesting Charactershow out in a 30 minute short
Enjoyment-4
I saw myself watching the timer the entire time almost witching it would be over, but there are some moments that are pretty good and I enjoyed
Overall-5
I think the idea was good, and I loved the message but the execution was pretty bad

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jan 28, 2021

BennoOwO

Not Recommended

The real litter was the friends we made along the way.
Shout outs to Google Mail.

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Congratulations MAL for getting the honour to host this.

Character design was alright I guess. Moon Santa was terrifying.
Why did this air so late after Christmas.
What did this have to do with Christmas.
... Save the whales. Pick up your bottles kids.
I'm really desperately trying to reach the minimum character count here, does it show.
Um.
Also a bootleg Ghostbusters believe it or not.
Apparently there's more to this series but whether or not you know of it I don't think matters cos this was it's own thing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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