Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau

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 thymia, 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. Nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017.

10 chapters

• Chapter 10 — Welcome Home
• Chapter 9 — The Choice of Paradise
• Chapter 8 — In the Womb
• Chapter 7 — The Beauty of this World
• Chapter 6 — Liontari's Attack
• Chapter 5 — Underneath the Masks
• Chapter 4 — Toes of the Messengers
• Chapter 3 — Memories Twinkling in the Sky
• Chapter 2 — Visitors and Resistance
• Chapter 1 — Chakuro of the Sea of Sand