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S -Saigo no Keikan- Manga Gets Live-Action Show This Fall
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The editor-in-chief of Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine revealed on the publisher's Comic Emon! Online website that the S -Saigo no Keikan- police action manga will receive a live-action television series adaptation this fall. Yōichi Komori (Mash GO!!) has been serializing the manga about a special police assault unit in the magazine with Yutaka Tōdō's illustrations since 2009. Shogakukan will ship the manga's sixth compiled book on January 30.
Masaki Nawada, the editor-in-chief of Shogagkukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, also announced on the same website that Shinobu Ohtaka's Magi fantasy adventure manga has a "huge project" in development. The publisher will provide further details in the future. Ohtaka (Sumomomo, Momomo - The Strongest Bride on Earth) began serializing the manga that re-imagines tales from the classic story One Thousand and One Nights in 2009. Shogakukan will publish the series' eleventh volume on January 18.
[Via Manga News (link 2)]
