Crab Cannery Ship

Hakukomaru (博光丸) is the name of the fisher ship that seals the cold and dangerous waters of the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka, always followed by an escort of Japanese Army. At board travel the workers who have to catch and tin crabs, hopeless and exploited until unimaginable limits by a cruel patron. It's a fiery critic against capitalism originally written as a novel by Japanese communist party member Takiji Kobayashi.

Manga version of the novel Kanikousen by Kobayashi Takiji. Aboard the Japanese crab ship 'Kanikosen' equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum wages. Sick of being ruled by their harsh Superintendent, one of the workers, Shinjo, urges his peers to rise up and start a revolution on board of the Kanikosen.

A sci-fi version of Kobayashi Takiji's proletarian novel Kanikousen, in which we follow the young fisherman Ryusuke, in a fictional future where the sea is evaporating and aquatic creatures have evolved into flying species.