Spirit of Wonder

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Sometime during the late 19th century, a young Asian girl has made a place for herself in a seaside town as owner and operator of the Tenkai Restaurant and Boarding House. Yet "Miss China" as the locals call her, is in the dumps. She's got a Mad Scientist called Breckenridge living upstairs who is chronically late with the rent, and she's pining for Jim, a handsome watchmaker's apprentice whom she mistakenly believes is pursuing the local flower girl.

But this isn't our world. It is a world that has the Spirit of Wonder, where every so often, just occasionally mind you, amazing things happen. The Mad Scientist actually has come up with an incredible invention, and Jim has an unbelievable plan to use it to give Miss China the most beautiful ring in all the world.

From the Anime Pocket Guide

Anime Pocket Guide Description: (by Enrique Conty)
The easiest way to describe it would be: "What if H.G. Wells wrote a romance story?". In a small port town in Victorian England, Miss China is the owner of the popular Tenkai restaurant. Her lodger, one Dr. Breckenridge, has been working on "alternative" methods to get to the moon. Breckenridge's assistant, Jim, is in love with Miss China, and eventually presents her with a very special gift...

Anime Pocket Guide Rating: RECOMMENDED

Short about the Author:

Kenji Tsuruta isn't out for fame and fortune. If he was, he might be just a mite more productive. But what the creator of the warm and whimsical Spirit of Wonder likes doing best is trying to capture on paper a world that's unfolding quietly inside his own head, and if it takes him half a year or more to turn out a single story, that's fine by him. It's also fine by readers in Japan, who eagerly await the next, unpredictable appearance of his short-tempered, spunky heroine "Miss China" and her two irresponsible borders, the eccentric genius Professor and his long-suffering assistant Jim. They may not always pay their rent on time, but they'll do anything to try to please China, including carving a birthday greeting into the very surface of the moon.
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