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>I think Japanese mermaids are very different.
Western ones aren't exactly nice either when you get into the non Disney mythology of it all. That was kind of a big part of the original Little Mermaid story. She fell in love and learned to sacrifice costing her her life but in doing so gained a soul unlike the rest of her kind who were godless monsters. Then you have the sirens of greek myth. mermaids were always monsters. It's just decades of cartoons and girls trapper keepers taking it else where. Fairies are pretty nasty too.