is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yukinobu Hoshino. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine from May 1991 to November 1992, with its chapters collected in two volumes. The story is about the discovery of a gateway in time and space deep underwater which allows for travel between the present day and the age of the dinosaurs.
A sequel, titled Blue World, was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from February 1995 to August 1997, with its chapters collected in four volumes.
Synopsis Scattered across Earth's oceans are large caverns in the seabed known as blue holes. Close to the Comoro Islands is one such hole, where an unusually large population of the endangered gombessa thrive. After a fishing incident near the hole that ends with a mysterious sea creature destroying the boat and killing off most of its crew, a research vessel approaches and rescues its sole survivor: a young Comorian villager named Gaia Nagili, whose grandfather was killed in the attack. Hearing her claims of a possible gombessa nest within the Blue Hole, the captain allows Gaia to join in on a deep-sea expedition into the hole, where they encounter live sea creatures from the age of the dinosaurs.
During another deep-sea expedition near the Blue Hole, the vessel is suddenly caught in a whirlpool and ejected through the other side, where Gaia and the other survivors realize the hole is actually a time portal to Earth during its late Cretaceous period. As the group try to survive in a world of dinosaurs both friendly and violent, they soon discover other Blue Holes centred around massive "marine trees" that lead to other periods in Earth's history. Meanwhile, one survivor, influential scientist Charles Hawk, declares his plan to enact "Project Blue Hole", to create a pipeline through the original Blue Hole and extract resources from the past Earth to the present.
Publication Written and illustrated by Yukinobu Hoshino, Blue Hole was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine from May 1991 to November 1992. Kodansha collected its chapters in two volumes, released on August 8, 1992, and February 9, 1993. It was later republished in one volume on March 12, 2002, and in two volumes on February 6, 2012.
Its sequel, , was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from February 25, 1995, to August 25, 1997. Kodansha collected its chapters in four volumes, released from April 23, 1996, to April 23, 1998. It was later republished in two volumes between May 11 and June 12, 2001, and in three volumes between November 22, 2012, and January 23, 2013.
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