Triton of the Sea (DMP)

Triton of the Sea (DMP)

English Title: Triton of the Sea
Japanese Title: 海のトリトン
Publication Date: 2013
Publisher: DMP
No. of Volumes: 2
In Print: ✔
Digital: ✔

From the Publisher

The ocean holds many tales. Tales of mermaids, of underwater kingdoms, and of fantastical beasts lurking in the deep. Spurred by these tales, Kazuya sets out to find the truth, but what he finds is a baby?! Not just any baby, the baby Kazuya finds is Triton! The last of a once mighty and proud race of people from the sea. Triton seems human, but unusual and terrible events begin to happen with all those around him. Who is Triton, and why does he bring misfortune to everyone around him? Finally in print, Osamu Tezuka’s masterful tale of the sea!

From the imaginative mind of Osamu Tezuka, creator of the beloved “AstroBoy” series, comes his original and thrilling take on the legend of Atlantis: Triton of the Sea! An undersea adventure packed with fights, love, and out of this world creatures, but at it’s core, a story with deep themes regarding the environmental and social issues that parallel our time, this manga has it all!

Thanks to funding by the Kickstarter Campaign, volumes one and two of this classic adventure have been collected into the first of two must-have omnibus editions for any and all Tezuka and manga enthusiasts!

What you should know

Following on the success of DMP’s Kickstarter campaign to publish Barbara in 2012 –  the first Osamu Tezuka manga to be successfully funded and printed through crowdfunding –  DMP returned to the platform again in 2012 to successfully fund their “Osamu Tezuka Family Pack” campaign.  A total of 715 backers pledged $49,411 (of an initial $20,500 goal) to successful fund the publication of Uncio, Atom Cat and Triton of the Sea.  Triton of the Sea was the second stretch goal, successfully unlocked when the campaign reached $47,000.

As with nearly all of DMP’s editions,Triton of the Sea was published unflipped in the original right-to-left Japanese reading style.  Although often published as four volumes, the English editions were published as two volumes, 488 and 440 pages in length and printed in the A5 (5.875″x8.25″) format.  In 2015, digital editions were released and are available on DMP’s emanga.com website for legal download in a number of popular formats (ePub, CBR/CBZ, PDF, etc.).