Kodansha USA introduced on Tuesday that it has licensed Moare Ohta‘s Parasyte Reversi (Kiseijū Reversi) action-horror manga based mostly on Hitoshi Iwaaki‘s Parasytecollection. The corporate will launch the manga in English digitally on October 8.
Kodansha USA describes the story:
Three dismembered our bodies had been present in an deserted basement parking storage, sliced limb from limb whereas they had been nonetheless alive…and if the boy who found them is to be believed, the murders occurred in an impossibly brief window of time. Nothing is including up for veteran detective Fukami of the East Fukuyama police division, and his intestine is telling him the boy is hiding one thing. In actual fact, he is fairly sure that Tatsuki Hirokawa noticed precisely what occurred, and who did it. However what the boy is aware of will go far past even his wildest nightmares… A riveting parallel episode to Hitoshi Iwaaki‘s acclaimed sci-fi horror collection, from the writer of cult basic Teppu.
Ohta debtued the manga on Kodansha‘s Comic Days service in March 2018, and ended it in Could 2021. Kodansha printed the manga’s eighth and ultimate compiled ebook quantity in July 2021.
Iwaaki’s authentic manga serialized in Kodansha‘s Afternoon journal from 1990-1995. The manga takes place in a world the place alien beings referred to as Parasites come to Earth and begin taking up people by coming into in by means of their noses and ears and attaching themselves to their brains. One alien referred to as Migi is barely capable of take over highschool scholar Shinichi Izumi’s proper arm, and is unable to manage Shinichi utterly. Migi and Shinichi study to co-exist, and the 2 battle different Parasites who see people solely as meals.
Kodansha USA printed the collection in English. The corporate additionally printed the Neo Kiseijū tribute manga collection underneath the title Neo Parasyte m in 2017, which options tales by completely different artists, together with Ohta. The tribute manga ran from September 2014 to March 2016 in Kodansha‘s Afternoon journal.
The manga most just lately impressed a tv anime adaptation in 2014, and two live-action movies in 2014 and 2015.
The manga is inspiring a South Korean live-action adaptation titled Parasyte: The Grey (Kiseiju: The Gray) that can debut worldwide on Netflix on April 5. The collection will run new episodes till June.
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