The Mangaoh retail website revealed that Kei Sanbe’s manga Mizutamari ni Ukabu Shima (The Island Where Puddles Float) is heading towards the climax of the story in volume 4. The volume will be released in Japan on the same date. July 21.
Sanbe launched the manga in Kodansha’s Evening magazine in November 2019. Kodansha published the manga’s third volume in Japan on March 23.
Kodansha describes the manga:
We struggle to live because we have hope.
We do our best to be happy because there is someone we should protect.
We believe in tomorrow and move on because there is a person in the distance.
A brother and sister are spending their days both waiting for their dear mother.
A troubled fate unexpectedly visits an older brother who is thinking about his sister.
Amidst the pouring rain, the “story” begins.
Sanbe drew the ERASED (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) manga from 2012 to March 2016, and a manga spinoff from June to November 2016. The manga was nominated for the Reader Award’ Tezuka Osamu award. Culture Award in 2014, Manga Taisho Award in 2015, and Seiun Comic Award in 2017. Yen Press released the manga in English.
An anime adaptation premiered in January 2016. Aniplex of America licensed the series, and Crunchyroll, Daisuki, and Funimation streamed the series as it aired in Japan. The manga also inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in March 2016. Netflix also produced a Japanese live-action adaptation series that premiered in May 2017.
Sanbe launched the For the Kid I Saw in My Dreams (Yume de Mita: Anoko no Tame ni) manga running in Kadokawa ‘s Young Ace magazine in July 2017. Yen Press will publish the manga in English.
