Most of the attention that we’ve focused on with the anime adaptation of the Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau manga, which is being localized as Children of the Whales, has been on the Japanese home video release that you can see detailed below. What we haven’t heard much about is when the fall 2017 series that was picked up by Netflix and streamed in Japan for its run. The official Japanese site has now confirmed what’s going on with overseas distribution of the show by confirming a March 13th, 2018 debut for the show with details to come for it.
Bandai Visual will be bringing the twelve-episode series out in two box sets with each set including an OVA. The DVD sets are priced at 16,000 yen and the Blu-ray sets at 18,000 yen when they land on January 26th, 2018 and March 23rd, 2018 respectively.
The series is being streamed by Netflix outside of Japan with Kyohei Ishiguro directing it based on the series composition by Michiko Yokote. Haruko Iizuka is on board as the character designer with JC Staff handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Natsuki Hanae as Chakuro, Manaka Iwami as Rikosu, Yuichiro Umehara as Ōni, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Suō, Mikako Komatsu as Ginshu, Daiki Yamashita as Ryodari, and Hiroshi Kamiya as Shuan.
The manga comes from Abi Umeda which began in the summer of 2013 and has eight volumes released so far.
Plot Concept: Chakuro is the 14-year-old archivist of the Mud Whale, a nigh-utopian island that floats across the surface of an endless sea of sand. Nine in ten of the inhabitants of the Mud Whale have been blessed and cursed with the ability to use saimia, special powers that doom them to an early death.
Chakuro and his friends have stumbled across other islands, but they have never met, seen, or even heard of a human who wasn’t from their own. One day, Chakuro visits an island as large as the Mud Whale and meets a girl who will change his destiny.
