Tropic of the Sea

Yosuke's family has a strange tradition — once every sixty years they receive an egg from a mermaid. When the egg matures his family dutifully returns it to the sea, where the whole process is then repeated. In exchange for this favor, the mer-people bless his coastal town with bountiful catches of fish and calm seas.

But as a commercial development encroach on the sleepy seaside village and Yosuke's father is lured away from tradition towards modern properity, and turns the egg into a tourist trap, what will happen to the promise their family made to the mermaids generations ago?

• Author
• Satoshi Kon, Maya Rosewood

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 236

• Publisher
• Vertical

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781939130068

• Genres
• manga, comics, fantasy, seinen, fiction, japan, mystery

• Release date
• 2013