Children of the Whales
| Children of the Whales | |
First volume cover | |
| クジラの子らは砂上に歌う (Kujira no Kora wa Sajō ni Utau) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Abi Umeda |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Monthly Mystery Bonita |
| Original run | June 6, 2013 – January 6, 2023 |
| Volumes | 23 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kyōhei Ishiguro |
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| Written by |
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| Music by | Hiroaki Tsutsumi |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | Netflix |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS, BS11 |
| Original run | October 8, 2017 – December 24, 2017 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Manga | |
| Kujira no Kora wa Sajō ni Manabu! | |
| Written by | Abi Umeda |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Magazine | Monthly Mystery Bonita |
| Original run | April 2018 – June 2021 |
Children of the Whales (Japanese: クジラの子らは砂上に歌う, Hepburn: Kujira no Kora wa Sajō ni Utau; lit. "Whale Calves Sing on the Sand") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Abi Umeda. It serialized in Akita Shoten's Shojo manga magazine Mystery Bonita from 2013 to 2023. The manga is licensed in North America by Viz Media. An anime television series adaptation produced by J.C. Staff aired in Japan from October to December 2017, and was released globally on Netflix in March 2018.