Secret of Cerulean Sand



Secret of Cerulean Sand (パタパタ飛行船の冒険, Patapata Hikōsen no Bōken) is a 26-episode anime television series loosely based on two works by Jules Verne—his posthumous 1919 novel The Barsac Mission (L’Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac, consisting of two volumes—Book 1, Into the Niger Bend, and Book 2, City in the Sahara) as well as his 1896 novel Facing the Flag (Face au drapeau).

It was included in Jury selections in the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival for the animation division.

Plot Summary
A 15-year-old British girl named Jane Buxton, dreams of building a flying machine due to her brother's influence. After her brother went missing during his Near East expedition, she follows his trail in serach of his last whereabouts that involves a floating liquid. It is set in the late 19th century where impossible technologies such as landships and "floating liquid" exist side by side in a steampunk world.