Secret of Cerulean Sand (2002)

Original title

パタパタ飛行船の冒険

Genre

steampunk, science fiction anime and manga, adventure anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 26 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set in the late 19th century, this series follows 15-year-old Jane Buxton as she sets out to find her missing brother who disappeared during an expedition. Her journey takes her across the Near East, where she chases old dreams of building a flying machine in a world with steam-powered wonders.

adventuroushopefuldeterminednostalgiccuriousleisurelymysteriouswhimsical

What happens

Secret of Cerulean Sand (パタパタ飛行船の冒険, Patapata Hikōsen no Bōken) is a 26-episode Japanese-Korean anime television series. The main character is a 15-year-old English girl named Jane Buxton, who dreams of building a flying machine due to the influence of her brother. The series documents her journey through the Near East to find her brother, who has gone missing after heading to the Near East to look for a floating liquid in an expedition. It is set in the late 19th century where impossible technologies such as landships and "floating liquid" exist side by side in a steampunk world. The series is loosely based on two works by Jules Verne—his posthumous 1919 novel The Barsac Mission, which was largely written by his son Michel Verne (L’Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac, published in English in two volumes—Into the Niger Bend (Book One of the Barsac Mission), and City in the Sahara (Book Two of the Barsac Mission)) as well as his 1896 novel Facing the Flag (Face au drapeau). It was included in Jury selections in the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival for the animation division. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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