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. The main character is a 15-year-old English girl named Jane Buxton, who dreams of building a flying machine due to the influence of her brother. The series documents her journey through the Near East to find her brother, who went missing after headed to the Near East to look for a floating liquid in an expedition. 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.
The series is 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).
The Main protagonist of the series, Jane is the little sister of George and step sister of William.
George Buxton (ジョージ・バクストン, George Buxton)
Voiced by: Masakazu Suzuki
The big brother of Jane and step brother of William.
William Buxton (ウィリアム・ファーニー・バクストン, William Buxton)
Voiced by: Tooru Ookawa
The main antagonist of the series and step brother of Jane and George. He was eleven years old when his mother Marguerite married into the Buxton Family, but William did not like the new environment, step family and depened on his mother. After his mother died of an illness, he felt more lonely, when Jane showed him kindness and calling his mother as her own, William begins to love Jane as his own and felt no longer alone.
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"The Three Siblings of the Buxton Family" Transliteration: "Bakusuton-ka no san kyōdai" (Japanese: バクストン家の三兄妹)
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January 5, 2002 (2002-01-05)
In the late 1800s in England, the wealthy aristocrat Edward Buxton hurries home with his son George for the arrival of his second child. But his wife Anna dies after giving birth and the daughter is named Jane. Few years later Mr. Buxton marries Marguerite who has a young son named William, but William did not like his step family and depended on his mother. Many months later Marguerite is struck with illness and tells her son to be strong before passing away, days later William sees Jane go alone and follows her, Jane shows him kindness and care that causes William to love his step sister. Many years later Jane is 10 years old who tries to create a flying machine but still fails, George is studying to find a way for humanity to have a machine that flies.
