The limited edition release of the eighth volume of the Ajin manga due out on May 6th, 2016 and now that things are closer an extended 90-second promo has arrived for it. It’s showing off the series pretty well, but if the hope was to boost sales for the manga with it, the sales of the TV series certainly isn’t going to provide a lot of encouragement. Hopefully the preorders for it were solid enough. The release from Gamon Sakurai will feature an original anime episode bundled with it for 3,600 yen, which is pretty much how they’re all priced these days.
The TV series itself was previously picked up by Netflix, who at the time stated, “This deal marks a milestone in how Anime is distributed on a global scale giving quicker and more efficient access to great Anime titles to Netflix members and fans around the world at the same time. AJIN: Demi-Human is the latest Anime title from Polygon Pictures to premiere exclusively on Netflix outside of Japanese broadcast with Knights of Sidonia premiering last summer to strong fanfare.”
The manga has been doing well in Japan since it launched in 2012 and it’s gotten some solid acclaim here since Vertical began publishing it. The timing works well for them too as the seventh volume of the manga comes out this week, bringing them largely up to date. Crunchyroll is handling the digital presentation of the manga series, making it available to a large number of fans.
Plot concept: Based on the manga by Gamon Sakurai, AJIN: Demi-Human, published by KODANSHA Ltd., is about a young high-school student who is hit by a truck and dies only to discover that he is, in fact, demi-human, an “Ajin.” What he finds are dozens of others who are also Ajins; all of whom are being hunted and trying to survive.
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