Kabu no Isaki
In a world that's mysteriously ten times bigger than ours, most places are in the middle of nowhere. Kabu no Isaki is a Slice of Life Manga about some people who live in this world, and get around by flying a small airplane: a lightweight Piper Super Cub. It's written by Hitoshi Ashinano, the author of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.
The sky isn't merely a cheap blue ceiling. It's something dreadfully high and deep. |
There are no fights or villains, but this series makes just flying to the next town into an adventure.
Tropes used in Kabu no Isaki include:
- Cool Airship: In chapter 3, there's an airship that's on a four-year mission to study the surface of the earth. The crew are only too happy to have a visitor fly up, even if he's just there to deliver food.
- Eyes Always Shut: Shiro. She opens them occasionally, but never very wide, or for very long.
- Flight: One of the central themes of the story.
- Never Gets Drunk: Shiro pours herself quite a lot of tequila... at 3:00 in the afternoon. Which is about three hours after she normally wakes up. She doesn't seem much affected by it. Tolerance, perhaps?
- One True Pairing: Isaki and Kajika. Although Shiro shows signs of turning it into a Love Triangle, or perhaps an OT3.
- Scenery Porn: Everywhere! It's usually more important than the dialogue, because a lot of what makes this manga special is the sense of wonder it evokes. It's meant to be read slowly.
- Tokyo Tower: This one is more than three kilometers tall. It looms out of the clouds like something from another world.
- World Tree: These are pretty common when the world is ten times its normal size.