The May 12-19 issue of Houbunsha’s Weekly Manga Times magazine revealed on April 28 that Shuho Sato’s The Isle of TOKKOU (Tokkou no Shima) manga took an unexpected break for the issue.
The Kaiten suicide torpedoes were one of a number of suicide attack units that the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy dubbed “Special Attack Units” or “tokkō-tai (from which the “TOKKOU” the title originates).
The manga deals with the stories of soldiers in the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy during 1944 and 1945, particularly with the training of the pilots of Kaiten manned suicide torpedoes.
Sato launched the manga in Weekly Manga Times in 2004, and publishes chapters of the manga irregularly.