Kaikisen
Tropic of the Sea
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Kaikisen

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Return to the Sea, Summer of Tension
Japanese: 海帰線
English: Tropic of the Sea
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 7
Status: Finished
Published: Mar 26, 1990 to Jun 18, 1990
Genres: Fantasy Fantasy, Mystery Mystery
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Authors: Kon, Satoshi (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.701 (scored by 41424,142 users)
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Ranked: #133272
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Popularity: #1906
Members: 10,909
Favorites: 30
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Tropic of the Sea
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Synopsis

Yosuke Yashiro's family has a strange, unique tradition—once every 60 years, they receive an egg from a mermaid where it sits protected in a shrine. After the egg matures, the family dutifully returns it to the sea, and the process is repeated. In exchange for this favor, the merpeople bless their coastal town with bountiful catches of fish and calm seas.

However, commercial developers encroach on the sleepy seaside hamlet and Yosuke's father is lured away from tradition toward modern prosperity, turning the mermaid's egg into a tourist trap. What will happen to the promise their family made to the mermaids all those years ago?

Included one-shot:
Volume 1: Summer of Tension

Background

Kaikisen was published in English as Tropic of the Sea by Vertical Inc. on September 17, 2013. It was also released in Italian as La stirpe della sirena by Star Comics on August 1, 1998.

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Reviews

Aug 26, 2024
Master Kon is best known for his work in animation, and now I can say that I’m glad I’ve delved into his manga production, because I’ve found a beautiful work that, in contrast to the often dark tones of the aforementioned author, explores the relationship between humans and nature, playing with mystery but never truly becoming dark.

The story, set in the coastal village of Tsunate, tells of the contrast between old and new, where the beautiful natural world is on the verge of being forcefully disrupted by the need to keep up with the world, which involves modernizing the village through the typical intervention of ...
Apr 2, 2017
I Must start by saying I enjoyed this story but I feel as if it lacks a certain effect its like other one and done manga's once its done its just done I feel as if the story had a predictable ending I like the story a lot not many bad things I could say I didn't feel like I'm did to much all they stuck to a core and from beginning to end kept the reader engaged with well designed art work and a equally appealing story I would love to read a story similar to this again this actually surprised me seeing ...
Sep 18, 2024
Mixed Feelings
I found Tropic of the Sea to be a beautifully-drawn but tame and not particularly original experience.

Story

"Run of the mill" would be the first phrase that comes to mind for me. While the setting seems well-realized, the plot is a standard call-out of greedy land development that many of us have likely seen in children's or young adult media, and not handled with nearly as much nuance as something like Princess Mononoke.
While the town of Ade feels like a well-realized setting, I came away feeling like it was just a different flavor of something like Hoot.
That's not inherently a bad thing, but there's nothing about ...

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