Children of the Whale Sing on the Sand, Children of the Whales, Die Walkinder: The Children of the Whales, Kujira no Kora wa Sajō ni Utau, Kujisuna, Les Enfants de la Baleine, Whale Calves Sing on the Debris, クジラの子らは砂上に歌う, 鲸鱼之子们在沙丘上歌唱, 고래의 아이들은 모래위에서

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 from their own. One day, Chakuro visits an island as large as the Mud Whale and meets a girl who will change his destiny. Note: Nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017.