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Elex Media Releases Ajin: Demi-Human Manga on April 6

Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced last week that it will begin releasing Gamon Sakurai's Ajin - Demi-Human manga on Wednesday. Elex Media will release the manga under its Level Comics label.

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 on May 6. The third film, Ajin: Shōgeki (Ajin: Crash), will open in Japan on September 23.

The manga's eighth volume will also bundle an anime on DVD when it ships in Japan 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 is currently listing that it will premiere the series outside of Japan on April 12.

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]