History Manga / ChildrenOfTheWhales

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The names are transcribed from Greek, which can lead to some confusion depending on the conventions, notably regarding φ (PH/F).

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The names are transcribed from Greek, which can lead to some confusion depending on the conventions; notably regarding φ (PH/F).

* OnlySixFaces: The rather uncluttered art comes at the cost of having little facial diversity, which can be especially confusing for androgynous characters like Suoh.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Suoh, the future captain, can easily be mistaken for a woman if you don't know any better.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In the anime, Ginshu and Shuan briefly appear much earlier.

Year 93 of the Sand Era. In a vast, endless sea of sand, a lone colony of people live upon an ever-moving island known as the Mud Whale. Chakuro, the archivist of the Mud Whale, chronicles the lives and deaths of the people who live there. The five hundred souls of the island are divided into a majority of "marked ones", short-lived people who can use a psychokinetic power known as Saimia, and a small minority of "unmarked ones", who don't have any powers but have normal lifespans and rule the ship. While people on the Whale know nothing of the outside world, or if there even ''is'' such a thing, they live a simple but happy and peaceful life, playing around, cultivating their land and falling in love. One day, however, they come across an island not unlike their own, only to find a graveyard and a wounded EmotionlessGirl who calls them "the criminals of Phaleina". This discovery may announce the end of their world…

* CastFromLifespan: Saimia users on the Mud Whale rarely live beyond their thirties. It's later explained that [[spoiler:instead of absorbing people's emotions, the Noûs Phaleina absorbs their life force.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: It quickly hits [[spoiler:the now not-so-emotionless Lycos]] that the people of Phaleina may not be the barbaric monsters she was told they were.

* MagicMusic: In volume 6, after [[spoiler:the Phaleinians get back the "tiller" of their ship and decide to head for Amonlogia]], they move it by singing a song that they all had seeminly implanted in their head without knowing how.

''Kujira no Ko-ra wa Sajou ni Utau'' ("Whale Calves Sing on the Debris") is a shojo fantasy series by Abi Umeda. It launched it 2013, and has been licensed for release in English starting in November 2017 (it's published in France by Glénat since 2016). An anime adaptation is set to air in Fall 2017 in Japan and launch in 2018 outside of Japan.

Year 93 of the Sand Era. In a vast, endless sea of sand, a lone colony of people live upon an ever-moving island known as the Mud Whale. Chakuro, the archivist of the Mud Whale, chronicles the lives and deaths of the people who live there. The five hundred souls of the island are divided into a majority of "marked ones", short-lived people who can use a psychokinetic power known as Saimia, and a small minority of "unmarked ones", who don't have any powers but have normal lifespans and rule the ship. While people on the Whale know nothing of the outside world, or if there even ''is'' such a thing, they live a simple but happy and peaceful life, playing around, cultivating their land and falling in love. One day, however, they come across an island not unlike their own, only to find a graveyard and a wounded EmotionlessGirl they call "Lycos", who refers to them as "the criminals of Phaleina". This discovery may announce the end of their world…

* HeelFaceTurn: It quickly hits [[spoiler:the now not-so-emotionless Lycos]] that the "criminals of Phaleina" may not be the barbaric monsters she was told they were.

* CastFromLifespan: Saimia users rarely live beyond their thirties. It's later explained that [[spoiler:instead of absorbing people's emotions, the Noûs Phaleina absorbs their life force.]]

* EmotionlessGirl: Lycos is an Apathoia, a soldier who gave her emotions to the Noûs of her ship.

Year 93 of the Sand Era. In a vast, endless sea of sand, a lone colony of people live upon an ever-moving island known as the Mud Whale. Chakuro, the archivist of the Mud Whale, chronicles the lives and deaths of the people who live there. The five hundred souls of the island are divided into a majority of "marked ones", short-lived people who can use a psychokinetic power known as Saimia, and a small minority of "unmarked ones", who don't have any powers but have normal lifespans and rule the ship. While people on the Whale know nothing of the outside world, or if there even ''is'' such a thing, they live a simple but happy and peaceful life, playing around, cultivating their land and falling in love. One day, however, they come across an island not unlike their own, only to find a graveyard and a wounded EmotionlessGirl they call "Lycos". This discovery may announce the end of their world…

Year 93 of the Sand Era. In a vast, endless sea of sand, a lone colony of people live upon an ever-moving island known as the Mud Whale. Chakuro, the archivist of the mud whale, chronicles the lives and deaths of the people who live there. The five hundred souls of the island are divided into a majority of "marked ones", short-lived people who can use a psychokinetic power known as Saimia, and a small minority of "unmarked ones", who don't have any powers but have normal lifespans and rule the ship. While people on the Whale know nothing of the outside world, or if there even ''is'' such a thing, they live a simple but happy and peaceful life, playing around, cultivating their land and falling in love. One day, however, they come across an island not unlike their own, only to find a graveyard and a wounded EmotionlessGirl they call "Lycos". This discovery may announce the end of their world…

* CastFromLifespan: Saimia users rarely live beyond their thirties. It's later explained that [[spoiler:instead of absorbing people's emotions, the Noûs Phaleina absorbs their life force.]]

* EldritchAbomination: The Noûs are surreal creatures that act as the "hearts" of the moving islands by feeding on the emotions of people. They are also prone to producing waves of hallucinations or flashes of the past under some circumstances.
* EmotionlessGirl: Lycos is an Apathoia, a soldier who gave her emotions to the Noûs of her ship.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Lycos doesn't have a birth name, Chakuro and co. only named her this one because they saw it on her uniform. It's actually the name of the Noûs that drives her ship.

Year 93 of the Sand Era. In a vast, endless sea of sand, a lone colony of people live upon an ever-moving island known as the Mud Whale. Chakuro, the archivist of the mud whale, chronicles the lives and deaths of the people who live there. The five hundred souls of the island are divided into a majority of "marked ones", short-lived people who can use a psychokinetic power known as Saimia, and a small minority of "unmarked ones", who don't have any powers but have normal lifespans and rule the ship. While people on the Whale know nothing of the outside world, or if there even ''is'' such a thing, they live a simple but happy and peaceful life, playing, cultivating their land and falling in love. One day, however, they come across an island not unlike their own, but only find a graveyard and a wounded EmotionlessGirl they call "Lycos". This discovery announces the end of their world…

* CastFromLifespan: Thymia users have greatly shortened lifespans.
* EmotionlessGirl: Rikosu is said to not have any emotions.

In a vast, endless desert, a lone colony of people live upon an ever-moving home known as the Mud Whale. Chakuro, the archivist of the mud whale, chronicles the lives and deaths of the people who live there. As a short-lived thymia user, he knows that his time is limited and is determined to leave better records than those that came before. But the uneasy, isolated peace of the Mud Whale is shattered when Chakuro discovers a strange young girl while out scouting. And she seems to know much more about their existence than they do.

Children of the Whales is shojo fantasy series by Abi Umeda. It launched it 2013, and has been licensed for release in English starting in November 2017. An anime adaptation is set to air in Fall 2017 in Japan and launch in 2018 outside of Japan.

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* CastFromLifespan: Thymia users have greatly shortened lifespans.

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Children of the Whales is shojo fantasy series by Abi Umeda. It launched it 2013, and has been licensed for release in English starting in November 2017. An anime adaptation is set to air in Fall 2017 in Japan and launch in 2018 outside of Japan.