Kan Takahama Launches New Manga Anchoring Dutchman
The new series continues Takahama's pattern of Nagasaki-set historical fiction, following her award-winning Ōgishima Saijiki.
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Kan Takahama has launched a new manga titled Anchoring Dutchman, a collaboration with Nagasaki's Huis Ten Bosch theme park. The series, set in 2036, follows a romance between a museum curator and a ghost. The first chapter is now available on LEED Publishing's Torch web platform.
The first chapter of Anchoring Dutchman is available now on LEED Publishing's Torch web platform. The series is set in 2036 and centers on a museum curator and a ghost trapped in the museum by a curse from his ship, who can only be freed by his true love. The manga is a collaboration with Nagasaki's Huis Ten Bosch theme park.
Takahama won the Le Prix Konishi at the 52nd Angoulême International Comics Festival in February 2025 for the French translation of Ōgishima Saijiki, which is the third and final work in her "Nagasaki Trilogy." Her previous manga Shishi to Botan launched on Torch in November 2023.
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