ok, so this has been driving me batty for like..10 years.
i grew up here in portland and when i was little we used to rent movies from this little independent place over in sellwood called royal video. there were a couple of videos that i rented religiously, some obvious things like strawberry shortcake & rainbow-bright. but then there were a couple of other wierd things like lady lovely locks, and this bizzare show called noozles with magical koala bears (which im not sure is an anime or not).
BUT
the point is there was ONE tape of this little mermaid possible-anime, where the mermaid was a little girl and i dont think it was based on the hanz christian anderson version. I think she was blond, i think she was a princess and i know she hung out with a talking sea-horse.
there was some kinda magical treasure stolen, and some kinda sparkly seashell was involved.
i remember her crying and the seahorse (which had this bubbly voice) told her to stop crying because "she was only going to make the sea saltier"-or didnt need to be saltier or something.
its wierd since i have this very vivid memory about the show itself but i cant remember what its called.
and if i search for mermaid stuff all i get is this 70s anime based on the orriginal story and that mermaid melody/ledgend of mermaid thing.
i dunno its driving me nuts and i figured someone on here might be familiar with it.