Travis Bruno of Capsule Computers writes:
"NIS America surprised many anime fans when they began releasing anime series in North America five years ago and just last year the company began experimenting with English dubbing their anime releases with Toradora!. Now a little over a year later, the company has now released a series right off the bat with an English voice track included in the form of A Lull in the Sea (previously known as Nagi no Asukara). While their first release may have been of a popular anime series they had released prior, was A Lull in the Sea worth the risk?"