Wandering Island · review
As of this review, Wandering Island has 2 volumes officially released. It didn't seem to have any new updates so I might as well say something now. Wandering Island is a story revolving around Murika's time in her mission to deliver something to the island of "Electric Island". I can tell you now that you are in for an interesting story. The narrative of Wandering Island doesn't take its time in unnecessary exposition. It does relatively well in setting out the story as if they were going at the MCs speed, which is fast and to the point. I can say that because the first volume iseverything I have just described. Murika is quite a dedicated, fixated character spending most of her time setting out her plan in going to this new island. Taking it to the next level here, but you can converge her thinking process to the actual pacing, whatever actions she takes seems to take up space in this story accordingly well. It makes for a nice read with the added getting to understand the character. It comes at the cost of a story, however, but relative to this world, more or less a mirror image of ours. The events that take place are still interesting despite not having much of anything noteworthy.
The art is amazing, very detailed and you can tell a lot of time has been put into it. I can't say you should expect less from Tsuruta because he is the same dude who made the Omoide Emanon manga adaptation.
I enjoy this. You should be able to as well. It is mostly inoffensive but it does tend to drag at the start. It also lacks major enthusiasm due to realism. But even then if I have made a note of such a case, it could be said that maybe it was taken to an extreme level. Honestly though, nothing bad here all in all.
I can't recommend you read this now. Do so, if ever, anything new comes out, the drop off here is a bruh moment so I would wait with this one. But I won't command you to do something you don't want to do. Do as you see fit. Will give it a 7.5/10 so far.