Daphne in the Brilliant Blue is set on a water world, where the leading government authority is the Ocean Authority and the government seems to own all the land. The story opens with a young lady taking the entrance exams to join the OA. She excels at all the tests and gives encouragement to other disheartened contenders. She even does a good luck chant for them. And they get accepted to the OA and she doesn’t. There is a mysterious lurker in the shadows.

Mizuki is also evicted from her house, since the house was really registered to her grandfather who recently passed away leaving her an orphan. So, Mizuki wanders the streets looking for a workplace that provides accommodations. She gets caught in the middle of a firefight between some criminals and some near-naked women. (I have noticed that in Japanese shows, the fewer clothes the woman wears the better the crime fighter she is. I’m not really sure how the clothes were attached to the bodies or how they stayed on, but that is beside the point. Sometimes the laws of physics don’t need to apply.)

Turns out that the crime fighters need a helper and they have accommodations so they hire Mizuki on and have many adventures. Of course she must pay for the accommodations with deductions from her meager salary, but it is a place to rest her head. Mizuki’s work costume is a bit more extensive than what the others are wearing.

The other crime fighters that have shown up so far are: pragmatic, steely Honjou (what’s wrong with shooting through the hostage?), not-so-sharp-shooting Hayama, and money-loving Gloria. Together, they are a branch of “Nereisu Kamchatka”, an all-purpose service company.

I have no idea who Daphne is.

Basically, the group inflicts carnage and mayhem upon the bad guys and other denizens in the area, recovers stolen treasures or looks for missing people. The stories are of some interest, the production values are good, and I am interested in seeing what happens to poor little Mizuki (will she ever get into OA, who is lurking behind her and will she ever be as buxom as the others?).

So I will give Daphne a 7 out of ten.