While not uncommon, we generally don’t hear much about most games that get adapted into manga form that come from consoles. But they do get made, including the news out of the Japanese PlayStation Twitter account that their horror game Siren will be getting such an adaptation. Set to premiere in Shinmimibukuro Atmos, Siren: The Call of the Red Sea will bring the title to life in a new way for the games that started coming out back in 2003. The series, which debuted a preview today in the magazine, brings Hiroshi Kamio to draw it based on the involvement of those from the game itself helping to tell a new tale in the storyline.
Game concept: Siren is set in a Japanese village named Hanuda (Hanyuda in the Japanese version). With strong religious beliefs important in the area, the locals like to keep to themselves and have sought to keep Hanuda isolated from the outside world. Following the interruption of a ritual near Hanuda, and a subsequent earthquake, the village teeters between time and space, with an infinite sea of red water replacing the mountainous territory. The crux of the story focuses on the efforts of Hisako Yao, the leader of the local religion, to resurrect or re-awaken a god through a ceremony. The ‘Siren’ of the title is the god’s call, summoning Hanuda’s residents to immerse themselves in the red water, thus creating an army of subordinates called shibito. The shibito then go about building a nest to house the god’s corporeal form once it is summoned, as well as killing and converting any remaining humans left in Hanuda. The story is told through the perspectives of ten survivors, some of whom are natives of Hanuda, and is presented out of chronological order over the three days in which the plot takes place.
[Source: ANN]
