After having a pretty well received TV series last fall, the live action adaptation of the Higanjima manga is now moving forward once again with more material. A second TV series is now being put into production that will get the name of Nirvana Island: The Last 47 Screams. The series brings back the two main characters and picks up where it left off at the end of the first season. The series is based on the manga by Koji Matsumoto which ran for thirty-three volumes between 2002 and 2010. it spawened a live action film back in 2010 and some other works as well, including a new manga series that kicked off that same year which just ended this past July.
The first season of the series ran for ten episodes during its run as directed by Kenji Yokoi with Masaru Nakamura adapting it to this format. The series literally translates as Island of Red Spider Lillies.
Plot concept: At midnight, a middle-aged man desperately tries to run away from a police officer. He enters an abandoned house with the cop right behind him. The police officer grabs the middle-aged man and bites his neck with his sharp teeth. He then drinks the man’s blood. The police officer looks different from other humans. Akira Miyamoto (Shunya Shiraishi) left his hometown to study at a university in Tokyo. During his summer break, he goes back to his hometown. Akira’s older brother Atsushi (Ryohei Suzuki) has been missing for about half a year. He went on a trip with his fiancé when he disappeared and his disappearance has crushed his family.
Back in his hometown, he meets his old friends Yuki, Ken, Bon, Nishiyama and Kato. Before he arrived there, he met a beautiful woman who appeared suddenly in front of him. The woman’s name is Rei and she showed Akira her older brother’s driving license. Rei also told Akira that her brother is fighting vampires in the village where she lives. Akira found it hard to believe the woman’s story. Later, when Akira and his friends are attacked by vampires, he begins to believe the woman’s story. Akira and his friends decide to head out to island Higanjima to save Atsushi. What awaits for them is hellish beyond their imagination.
[Source: ANN]
