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Ocean Waves: Literary Connections & Standards
Ocean Waves, known in Japan as I Can Hear the Sea, is a 1993 Japanese anime coming-of-age romantic drama television film directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and written by Keiko Niwa (credited as Kaoru Nakamura) based on the 1990–1992 novel of the same name by Saeko Himuro. Animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten and the Nippon Television Network, Ocean…
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Ocean Waves topic overview
The analysis highlights Literary Connections and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around Ocean Waves.
Related topics
35
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
40
Extracted relationships
95
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
40
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Overview · 14 topics
Production · 8 topics
Release and home media · 7 topics
Reception · 4 topics
Plot · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Genre
Romantic drama · Coming-of-age
Directed by
Tomomi Mochizuki · Masahiro Nakano
Illustrated by
Katsuya Kondō
Licensed by
AUS: Madman Entertainment · NA: GKIDS · UK: StudioCanal UK
Magazine
Animage
Music by
Shigeru Nagata · Toru Hasebe
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
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How Ocean Waves connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Ocean Waves shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ocean Waves → Animage, Both, February, Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, Himuro's, Isao Takahata, January, Katsuya Kondō, Kondō, Madhouse Studios, Mochizuki, Oh, Production, Staff, Studio Ghibli, The, Their, This, Tomomi Mochizuki Another extracted example is Ocean Waves → Animage Video, April, August, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, BVHE Japan, December, Disney, Disney-Tokuma, DVD, Following, Ghibli, Ippai Director's Collection, Japan, July, June, Laserdisc, Originally, Tokuma Shoten, VHS. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 95 structured relationships around Ocean Waves. Examples in this analysis include Ocean Waves → Directed by → Tomomi Mochizuki and Ocean Waves → Directed by → Masahiro Nakano. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Ocean Waves bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Waves, Studio and Ghibli. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Ocean Waves
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Ocean Waves, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ocean Waves with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Ocean Waves
Nodes41
Edges40
Triples95
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Ocean Waves to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
