Children of the Sea #2

Daisuke Igarashi's watercolor cover for volume 2 pulls you straight into the deep — a blonde girl drifts weightlessly alongside a massive, spotted whale shark, their bodies intertwined in the blue-green water as small fish scatter around them. The image captures something between wonder and surrender, hinting at the mysterious, oceanic world at the heart of this 2009 Viz series. If you're drawn to manga that treats the sea as something vast and almost spiritual, *Children of the Sea* rewards the plunge.