Dark Horse Comics has revealed as part of their intent to grow their manga market more in 2016 that they’ve picked up the Wandering Island manga series from Kenji Tsuruta. The publisher will be bringing out the first volume on July 19th, 2016 priced at $14.99. The book will have eight color pages that were done in grayscale for the Japanese volume but in color for the original serialization in Afternoon magazine when it began back in 2010.
Tsuruta’s not a household name but he had a work that was very popular in the early days of North American fandom with Spirit of Wonder, which had two OVAs created for it that were released by AnimEigo and then Bandai Entertainment. The manga for Wandering Island is pretty irregular with not a lot of material out there overall.
Plot concept: Wandering Island is the story of Mikura Amelia, a free-spirited young woman living alone with her cat, who operates an air delivery service—flying her vintage seaplane to Japan’s small island communities located hundreds of miles out into the ocean. One day going through her grandfather’s papers, she discovers an undelivered package with her name on it, addressed to an island Mikura has never heard of. She learns about the folklore among sailors of a “wandering island” in the North Pacific that seems to drift and disappear, spotted at various times over the years by ship’s crews. For the sake of adventure, and the memory of her grandfather, Mikura is determined to find it!
[Source: ANN]
