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Description

From Anime Waves:
Nakabaru Taiyo came to Okinawa in the pursuit of beautiful ladies and the blue sea... But while trying to hit on a cute girl, she told him that her mother hated him... And then a wonderful story of scuba diving, beautiful women and adventure begins!

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Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

IO The Ocean Adventure & Love Story (TMCX - Tomorrow Comix)

イオ

伊奥

伊奥冲绳潜水日志

伊奧沖繩潛水日誌

蓝海美人礁

Groups Scanlating

AnimeWaves

Latest Release(s)

v.10 c.55 (end) by AnimeWaves 17 years ago

v.10 c.54 by AnimeWaves 18 years ago

v.10 c.53 by Anime Waves 18 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

10 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

IO by Master_M2K

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2 topics, 21 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (511 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.62 / 10.0

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Last Updated

August 10th, 2024 3:26am PDT - 9 months ago

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Genre

Drama Ecchi Harem Mature Mystery Romance Seinen Supernatural
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Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Young Magazine (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #721

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Monthly Pos #1575

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3 Month Pos #3528

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6 Month Pos #4762

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Year Pos #6097

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List Stats

On 559 reading lists

On 607 wish lists

On 1553 completed lists

On 85 unfinished lists

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[IO] The Ending

7 years ago

I just finished IO, and the ending left me very confused!!!

16 years ago

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by Draco
17 years ago

Rating: 8.8 / 10.0

Over all, I really liked the story. The ending satified me well enough... but I'm not going to lie... I'm left with questions. What was so special about the whale. What was the connection to the ruins. Why were people getting sick when apparently there was nothing wrong to begin with. The plot seemed to do this 180 in the end and everything you had read up till wasn't really applicible.

Regardless of it's faults though... I still really really liked it... Then again, I want to learn how to scuba dive... and personal bias is always the way to go.

I close on this final note:
As much as I liked the main girl.... a part of me was rooting for Moi though... I will admit.

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good, not great

by amp
17 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

a nice read for me.. the plots mystery really got me reading.. twist here, mega twist there.. the ending was satisfying.. nothing spectacular.. at least it had closure.. its great that AW finally released it, and did a great job at it.. and finally MIO RULES!!!

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Better than average, but not as great as reviews make it out to be...

by reanimated838uk
17 years ago

Rating: 7.2 / 10.0

From reading the reviews of the other readers, I was expecting it to be a great read, but it still left me slightly empty when i finished it. It had enough momentum to keep me interested - the first volume was the weakest of them all IMO so once I got past it it got better - but it never really felt like much was happening from Start > End.

Animewaves did a good job scanlating it. Usually old series suffers problems with dialogue that is filled with errors and don't make much sense, but luckily i never noticed this. However as it progressed a fair amount of bubbles were left empty or dashed through. For whatever reason it made me feel like I was missing out on important info or words to emphasise certain situations. Lovely colour pages were included so I was happy with that.

Drawing wise - some of the characters look too similar. Shibuka looks like a boy sometimes, and othertimes I get confused with Taiyo. For me, MIO stood out as the most unique looking of all the characters. The environment and especially the sea were well drawn. Panels at the bottom of the page didn't have whitespace/ending of bottom-most panels give a feeling of excessive cropping - whether it was a scanlation thing or in the raw, I don't know. I just know I wasn't keen on it. Another thing that bothered me was continuity issues or flow problems, one panel they'd have them doing something and then the next they'd sometimes be doing something totally different, so it didn't flow that well a few times.

With regards to the story, as I said I didn't feel much had been happening over the space of 10 volumes. The romance aspect developed nicely, but a few more volumes could have been added to explain the storyline a little better. There was just too much bouncing back and forth physically and with allegances.

Not much info is out there (on the world wide web) about IO's storyline, which is a shame as I was hoping some of it would clear up remaining questions still left unanswered. I'll probably re-read it again but I don't think i'll find these answers on a 2nd read.

... Last updated 17 years ago

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Great story of romance and supernatural mystery ^_^

by Master_M2K
18 years ago

Rating: 9.4 / 10.0

Story/Plot
IO basically starts of as a romantic comedy with a typical guy who goes to Okinawa and meets some sisters who he happened to know before, yet he can't seem to recall any of his past with them. Behind what would seem like a typical romantic comedy is a story of supernatural mystery and suba diving.

Artwork
The artwork is one of the best things about the manga. There is so much detail put on every page, you begin to notice little flaws like the eye lines. The few beautiful colour pages are there for the best fanservice ever created...

Final Thoughts
I came into this manga thinking it will be nothing special but it surprised the heck out of me because it doesn't follow the usual trends. One of the best things about it is the romance and it makes it all really believable, which is a nice change from all the cliched shounen manga. After a slow start the story itself becomes so interesting, as it begins to unravel itself and it's able to suck most people into all the mystery, forcing you to read on to discover more.

... Last updated 18 years ago

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AAARGH

by Laclongquan
18 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Hohum, it stop just when it's getting good!

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Wonderful work

by [deleted member]
19 years ago

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This is one of the few mangas out there that doesn't start high and end low. The story gets more and more interesting and the characters get more and more developed. Time was not wasted reading this manga-not only that, everyone should at least read a few chapters

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Great Story

by [deleted member]
19 years ago

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This story kinda grows on you. I reread it many times, each time like it better. EXCELLENCE!

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Good Stuff

by [deleted member]
19 years ago

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Good story, it starts simple then gets better and better.

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Don't judge a book by it's cover

by [deleted member]
20 years ago

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A good story with a solid development.

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Mangaka ruined the plot in the last several chapters

by TheGentleman
13 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

It was a great story but literally there were ruining moments like with what Mar says happened as a result of Taiyo. BTW She likely lied AGAIN, notice all the lies she said about what their relationship was between them when you read it. Also remember Mar & Lago are half sisters with different mothers<- ehm who is the father of Lago cause that is the same father of Mar 😕 😕 before you attribute said burning sensation to result of action listed above. She carries the blood too.. so the thing that she said happened is a lie.... oh look ANOTHER LIE. Oh and the letter, prorpbably just letting T know hows she is doing now, M just grabs it so S doesn't find out something happened (with no result) with a person in another place(Mar). M is saving T from getting his ass beaten by S, over what happened.(there was no result) S was pretty jealous after all, and M promised to keep it a secret. That would carry over. Again no indication of a result at all.

nail80 you pretty much said it, especially about the affair piece. There are a lot of other parts I can forgive but that ruined the story. The worst part is there is no actually indication of a result, its just implied and Mar lied so much that I don't believe that even. ( the letter is non-conclusive) The plot before the last 3-4 chapters was good so I'll give a 5/10 but I was happy reading this and then it made me just angry. Why was the mangaka such a moron?

Oh, don't care about Taiyo''s father. Everything is pretty much his fault. But to actually put the affair piece in to make Taiyo look like scum was trashy by the mangaka.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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