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Terraformars Jump Festa 2015 Promo Looks Back on Series
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
Shueisha is airing a promotional video for the television anime adaptation of Yū Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana's sci-fi Terraformars at this year's Jump Festa event. The video looks back at the anime series, which aired the final episode on Friday.
The video begins with a line by Akari: "The flames of over 1.25 million species burn up! Don't underestimate Earth!"
The story of the original manga begins in the year 2577, hundreds of years after scientists sent cockroaches and mold to terraform Mars. However, when the first manned ships land on Mars, they encounter large humanoid cockroaches with great strength, and are wiped out. Humanity then sends elite warriors to Mars to eliminate the cockroaches.
Sasuga and Tachibana launched the manga in 2011, and Viz Media published the second compiled volume in North America on September 16. The manga ranked at #3 on the Da Vinci magazine's list of the best male-oriented comics in the first half of 2013. The manga also topped the male readers category of the 2013 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook. The manga was nominated for last year's Manga Taisho award.
The manga inspired both an original video anime (OVA) project and the television anime series. The OVA project adapts the Bugs 2 arc on discs bundled with the 10th and 11th manga volumes, while the television anime adapts the Annex 1 arc. (The Annex 1 arc takes place two decades after the Bugs 2 arc.)
