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The Best Episodes of My Bride is a Mermaid

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Nagasumi's in hot water after a beautiful, young mermaid named Sun saves him from drowning. The deep-sea sweetheart's dad is a merman yakuza prone to executing anyone who learns his family's scaly secret! Luckily, there's

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    My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 26 - The Place Where You Return
    8.1/10(19 votes)

    #1 - The Place Where You Return

    S1:E26

    Nagasumi, Kai, and Lunar go to save Sun. Once they get there, the Seto Group manages to break free and a huge battle commences. Nagasumi manages to save Sun and he tells her he loves her and he wants to stay with her forever.

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  2. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 12 - Love Slave
    8.0/10(20 votes)

    #2 - Love Slave

    S1:E12

    Nagasumi's mom and Sun go shopping for groceries, leaving Lunar alone with Nagasumi. Lunar plans to make her "slave" help her study for school since she is getting zeros on all her tests. Eventually it gets to the point where Lunar starts to come on to Nagasumi while outwardly stating that she would never fall in love with a human. Through many badly timed, but well-meaning errors, Nagasumi ends up being engaged to Lunar.

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  3. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 5 - Targeted School
    7.9/10(25 votes)

    #3 - Targeted School

    S1:E5

    Sun and Nagasumi attend their first day of school. Sun's father and the gang have all become teachers at their junior-high school, and Nagasumi's friend Sarutobi falls in love with Sun. Nagasumi must survive constant attacks from his new "teachers".

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  4. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 13 - The Poem of Love
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #4 - The Poem of Love

    S1:E13

    Nagasumi is taken back to Lunar's house where a wedding ceremony is going to soon begin. Moments before Nagasumi is meant to become her husband, Nagasumi voices his disapproval of a false wedding, and promptly refuses to continue with the wedding. Suddenly, Sun appears and voices her disagreement with the wedding as she uses her sword to defeat Lunar's guards and announce her love for Nagasumi.

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  5. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 14 - A Kitten's Story
    7.9/10(17 votes)

    #5 - A Kitten's Story

    S1:E14

    Nagasumi finds a kitten and brings it to school. Nagasumi soon discovers that Sun, Lunar, and Maki are all deathly afraid of cats, and gets the idea to test it on Kai and Gōzaburō too, but before that learns that most mermaid adults are not afraid of cats anymore as they eventually get over their fear; this however does not apply to Gōzaburō due to a tragic experience as a child. Nagasumi decides to make this into an advantage.

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  6. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 8 - Crash
    7.8/10(21 votes)

    #6 - Crash

    S1:E8

    The situation at school keeps escalating, and even Maki is hurt in the process. In order to avoid total war, Nagasumi comes up with a plan to settle everything in a singing competition between Sun and Lunar, with Nagasumi himself as the collateral.

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  7. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 11 - Armageddon
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #7 - Armageddon

    S1:E11

    After Sun and Lunar go on a diet, Sun's father buys her all sorts of presents to help her out, including some special "mer-water" that energizes and gives strength. But many problems arise when Nagasumi drinks it by accident, not only giving him the powers of a merman, but also growing him to gigantic proportions.

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  8. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 18 - Gate of Flesh
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #8 - Gate of Flesh

    S1:E18

    The whole class went for a sudden trip to Kyoto. After an incident where Maki attacked Akeno, Sun apologizes to her, but Akeno issues that she's interested in Sun's mermaid body and asks her permission to investigate them at bathroom. Unknown to them, Nagasumi and Mawari misheard this conversation and issue an investigation of their own.

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  9. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 7 - Visitor
    7.7/10(23 votes)

    #9 - Visitor

    S1:E7

    Nagasumi runs into Lunar, a popstar idol; her mermaid form is accidentally revealed to him. In turn, Lunar plans on making Nagasumi her slave forever. He finds out she is a childhood friend and rival of Sun. Lunar soon makes a plan to settle the score with Sun once and for all.

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  10. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 10 - Man of Steel
    7.7/10(22 votes)

    #10 - Man of Steel

    S1:E10

    A strange, huge, practically invincible man, stalks Nagasumi and nothing can get in his way. Nagasumi tries to tell his friends, but initially no one believes him. Eventually Nagasumi runs into Kai and they both start running for their lives. This episode is a slight parody of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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  11. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 15 - What's Your Name?
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    #11 - What's Your Name?

    S1:E15

    Nagasumi, Sun, Lunar, Mawari, Saru, and Mikawa go on what is supposed to be a double date. As Nagasumi goes to get a juice ordered by Lunar, he accidentally bumps into the class president in an intersection, whom he doesn't recognize. It is now known that the class president has a crush on Nagasumi. Nagasumi accidentally steps and breaks her glasses lying on the ground so she doesn't recognize him. After she gets new ones she recognizes Nagasumi and runs away. As soon as he catches up and asks her name she runs away again saying she'll tell him the next time they meet.

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  12. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 6 - Ojou-san, Be Gentle with Me
    7.6/10(23 votes)

    #12 - Ojou-san, Be Gentle with Me

    S1:E6

    Mawari notices Sun's fishtail and comes to the conclusion that Sun is a fish. She keeps trying to splash Sun with water in order to verify her theory, but Nagasumi protects Sun, while at the same time trying to save Mawari's life from the mermaid code of law.

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  13. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 9 - Battle Runner
    7.6/10(22 votes)

    #13 - Battle Runner

    S1:E9

    Nagasumi's life only gets more hectic with the arrival of Kai Mikawa, a handsome, rich, but agoraphobic merman, who insists that Sun is his fiancé. Kai transfers to the school and challenges Nagasumi for Sun's hand in marriage during Sports Festival Day.

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  14. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 4 - Life is Tough for a Guy
    7.5/10(25 votes)

    #14 - Life is Tough for a Guy

    S1:E4

    As a dutiful wife, Sun follows Nagasumi back to his house in the city, where she is to live with him and his parents. However, the first day back turns out to be quite hectic and eventful.

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  15. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 21 - A Fuss About Love
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #15 - A Fuss About Love

    S1:E21

    Nagasumi receives a love letter from the class president. Being the first love letter he has received in is life, he completely loses his mind. Maki takes the letter from Nagasumi's pocket and reads it outloud for everyone to hear. Mawari, Lunar, Sun, Gozaburo, and other relevant people hide behind a bush to see whether Nagasumi comes or not. Nagasumi comes and is beaten by Lunar's dad and Gozaburo.

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  16. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 23 - Man Without a Past
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #16 - Man Without a Past

    S1:E23

    Believing Masa was an acquintance of her older brother, Akeno asks Masa about her brother's whereabouts, but Masa had lost his memories before joining the Seto clan. Gōzaburō then reveals to Nagasumi that Akeno's brother is actually Masa himself. While unaware of this fact, Akeno intend to punish her brother's for his irresponsibility, forcing Nagasumi to protect Masa using any methods available.

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  17. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 19 - There is no business like show business
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #17 - There is no business like show business

    S1:E19

    After the attempt to rid of Nagasumi from Sun fails. Akeno is now undertaking a mission, to foil Nagasumi by forcing him to gulp down a mermaid drink which will release mortals of their strongest desires, thus forcing Sun to break away from Nagasumi. The plan fails, however, when everyone except Nagasumi gets drunk.

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  18. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 20 - An Elegy of Men
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #18 - An Elegy of Men

    S1:E20

    Lunar's father searches for ways to express his love and cheer up his precious daughter when he accidentally spots a Galge from a search engine. Armed with his new "knowledge", an iron will and an iron body, Lunar's father once again attempts to comfort Lunar (to everyone's horror), while convincing Gōzaburō about "a daughter's heart" in the process.

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  19. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 1 - A Yakuza's Wife
    7.3/10(39 votes)

    #19 - A Yakuza's Wife

    S1:E1

    Nagasumi, a teenage boy, is saved by the chivalrous mermaid Sun while drowning in the ocean off the coast of Seto Island. Mermaid society rules are strict — in order for both Nagasumi and Sun to stay alive, they have to get married. Little does Nagasumi know that Sun's mermaid clan is in fact a Yakuza organization.

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  20. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 16 - Minority Report
    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #20 - Minority Report

    S1:E16

    Akeno Shiranui, a mermaid examiner has come to record and observe mermaids that doesn't fit well with humans and send them back to their origin. Now Sun must overcome her own fear and tries her best not to fail the examination with Akeno keeping an eye on Sun's every action.

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  21. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 17 - Prefectural Police vs. Gangsterism
    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #21 - Prefectural Police vs. Gangsterism

    S1:E17

    Defeated by Akeno, a group of delinquent lords follow her around which mislead Mawari into believing Akeno was also a delinquent. In order to protect the society, Mawari decides to go all out against Akeno. Meanwhile, The teachers from Seto clan also plotting their own plan against Akeno. Though Sun finally convinces Mawari to rethink of the situation, the unstoppable clashes has already begun.

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  22. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 24 - Farewell, Friend
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    #22 - Farewell, Friend

    S1:E24

    Kai has an embarrassing problem about himself that he wants to keep a secret from others. It ends up that he just has a boil on his butt, however, Saru passes by the hospital where Kai had gone to pick up his medicine, and overhears the doctor and nurse talking about how Kai has an incurable disease. Saru then tells the others. Heartbroken, they all try to give Kai the best time of his life during his last moments.

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  23. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 25 - The Family Game
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    #23 - The Family Game

    S1:E25

    It is first time that Sun and Nagasumi has a quarrel, and both end up not talking to each other. At the same time, the members of Seto Group are invited to join a party held by a noble. However, the party is a trap.

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  24. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 2 - Legend of the Ring
    7.1/10(34 votes)

    #24 - Legend of the Ring

    S1:E2

    Nagasumi enjoys his first date with Sun at the Bon Festival. However, most stalls are operated by the Seto-Gumi. Later, Nagasumi soon finds out that Sun's legs revert into a tail when she is splashed with water and must protect her by drying her legs.

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  25. My Bride is a Mermaid Season 1 Episode 3 - Island Closest to Heaven
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #25 - Island Closest to Heaven

    S1:E3

    Sun and Nagasumi get to spend a whole day alone on a deserted island. However, this is a trap meant to eliminate Nagasumi, as the group's notorious assassin and longtime friend of Sun's, the "Spiral Shell" Maki, is after his life.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Place Where You Return" is the best rated episode of "My Bride is a Mermaid". It scored 8.1/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/30/2007. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Love Slave".