Is she an air traffic controller…or just a beach bum? Hard to tell, when you’re in charge of an island airport that gets two flights a week!
A slice of life manga by Kenji Tsuruta (Emanon, Wandering Island, Captain Momo’s Secret Base) that’s Jimmy Buffett meets Hayao Miyazaki, featuring a watercolor wraparound cover painting and 96 interior color pages!
Okunotorishima International Airport has everything for the traveler: a bar, a restaurant, a duty-free store. It even has an special runway that was once built for the Space Shuttle!
In fact, the only thing it doesn’t have much of is actual travelers, as it’s located on a tiny, remote southern island of Japan. That makes it the perfect gig for Okunotorishima’s chief—the aviation industry’s greatest slacker, Cerezo Shitodoha.
Her love life keeps crashing, and her family relationships are stuck in a holding pattern…so what to do but turn her high-pressure job into a low-pressure one in this tropical paradise, tanning on the runway, chilling at the bar and grill, and teasing the airport’s just-as underworked immigration officer. But don’t mistake her laziness for incompetence—even if it’s an emergency landing of a jumbo jet, rest assured Cerezo will guide your flight in safely, wearing flip-flops and bikini bottom!
