I don't remember why I added this to my Netflix queue back in 2012. I think I read about it in an article about anime, or something nostalgic. Who knows? Netflix never had it available in the subsequent five years so I finally looked it up online and it was on YouTube. It's obviously a straight VHS rip so the quality is terrible.Prince Sirius (Toru Furuya) is the heir to the kingdom of the sea. He is told by the king that he must never go to the Forbidden Zone, which he immediately does. There he finds Princess Malta (Mami Koyama), a fire child and keeper of the sacred flame. They instantly fall in love once they get past the prejudice that was instilled in them since birth. Sirius consults the wisest creature in the ocean as to why the fire children are forbidden to mix with the sea children and is told that the Queen of Fire and her brother, the King of the Sea, used to be really close but the evil Lord of Air drove a wedge between them. Since then, the two nations have been forbidden to interact. Sirius doesn't care and is intent on making Malta his cousin-wife. They learn that only during a full solar eclipse, a particular flower on a particular hill blooms and the blossoms will take the lovers to a star where fire and water can live happily together.
Yeah, so if you liked Romeo & Juliet but wished there had been more incest, this is the movie for you. It's not good in any sense of the word. The story is trite, the animation is basic, and the dubbing is awful. But, like I said, it's on YouTube in its entirety if you're curious.
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