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Elex Media Teases Ajin: Demi-Human Manga Release in April

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Manga about immortal demi-humans on the run has anime film trilogy and series

Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo teased a release of Gamon Sakurai's Ajin - Demi-Human manga on Thursday, showing a cover of the first volume (the only volume credited to the series' former writer Tsuina Miura). Elex Media will release the manga under its Level Comics label, and will release the first volume in April.

In the manga's story, an immortal first appeared on an African battlefield 17 years ago. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student named Kei Nagai is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.

Sakurai launched the manga in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine in 2012, and Kodansha published the seventh compiled book volume in Japan in November. The manga is currently being adapted into an anime film trilogy and accompanying television series. The first film, subtitled "Shōdō," opened in Japan last November in 30 theaters in Japan for a two-week limited screening, after a screening during the Tokyo International Film Festival in late October. The second film, Shōtotsu, opens in Japan in May.

The manga's eighth volume will also bundle an anime on DVD when it ships on May 6.

The TV anime series premiered on January 15, and goes deeper into the story and provides more details on the story's world. Netflix is streaming the new episodes in Japan three days after they air on Japanese television. Netflix will then premiere all the episodes at once in "regions Netflix currently operates outside of Japan" in mid-2016.

The manga ranked as a top manga series on the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2014 list and in the 2014 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook. The series also received a nomination for the 18th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize "Reader Award" in 2014.

[Via Kaori Nusantara]


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