| Mermaid Saga | |
 First shinsōban volume cover | |
| 人魚シリーズ (Ningyo Shirīzu) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Rumiko Takahashi |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics Special |
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| English magazine | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | August 1984 – February 1994 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Original video animation | |
| Mermaid's Forest | |
| Directed by | Takaya Mizutani |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Studio | Pastel |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | August 16, 1991 |
| Runtime | 55 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Mermaid's Scar | |
| Directed by | Morio Asaka |
| Produced by |
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| Music by | Norihiro Tsuru |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| Licensed by |
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| Released | September 24, 1993 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Mermaid's Forest | |
| Directed by | Masaharu Okuwaki |
| Studio | TMS Entertainment |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
| Original run | October 4, 2003 – December 20, 2003 |
| Episodes | 11 + 2 OVA |
Mermaid Saga (Japanese: 人魚シリーズ, Hepburn: Ningyo Shirīzu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It consists of nine stories told in 16 chapters irregularly published in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Zōkan and Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1984 to 1994.
Two of the stories from the series, Mermaid's Forest and Mermaid's Scar, were adapted as original video animations (OVAs) in 1991 and 1993, respectively. All of the tales, except one, were later adapted as an anime television series in 2003. In North America, the manga has been licensed by Viz Media, while the first OVA was released by US Manga Corps in 1993 and the second OVA by Viz Media in 1995. The anime television series was licensed by Geneon Entertainment.
In 1989, Mermaid Saga received the 20th Seiun Award for the Best Comic.
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Takahashi's uses some of her best talents to create a fantasy world with horror and mystique and it presents it with a character, Yuta, that is really easy to relate to.
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