I don’t read nearly as much manga as I should and every time I come across this beautiful cover-art from Children of the Sea (by Daisuke Igarashi), most recently on the Anime News Network, I get the strong urge to just drop everything else right there and then and to start reading this instead. It’s difficult to pin down exactly what it is about this particular image that catches my eyes, I think the colours are beautiful, but colours alone are rarely enough. It could be to do with the subtlety of the facial expressions and those strange, staring eyes, and then I notice fish and the sparkling blue sea, too. Now it’s more like a sense of wonder. It’s so bright and full of life. I have so many questions.