Wandering Island, Volume 1 is a beautifully drawn, stand-alone-ish manga volume by Kenji Tsuruta. From what I've read, it was published in Japanese in 2011, and a second volume has yet to be forthcoming. It was published a week ago in North America. Mikura Amelia is the scantily-clad heroine who just lost her grandfather. With her grandfather, she ran a delivery service among the many small islands in the Japanese archipelago. After her grandfather dies, she finds out that he had been searching for a floating island - Electric Island - for 30 years. Now she takes up the hunt.
Just as Mikura is beautiful yet flawed, so is this book (spoilers coming). Don't get me wrong; this is among the best artwork I've ever seen in manga. I'm very happy with this purchase. The detail of everything from the airplanes to the island to the junk in Mikura's houses is, to put it in a word, art. I love everything about it except for the fact that there's only one of them. It's almost unthinkable to me to have a series like this where Mikura doesn't step foot on Electric Island. It needs a Volume 2.
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