Dark Horse Comics has revealed at Anime Expo that they’ve got a new license acquisition that will make its debut in 2019 with the manga for Lynn Okamoto’s Elfen Lied. The series ran from 2002 to 2005 and inspired a popular violent anime adaptation that ADV Films licensed and released. The manga completed with twelve volumes in Young Jump magazine and Dark Horse will be doing them as four volumes of 3-in-1 editions beginning next year.
The manga has seen pickups overseas with German, Italian, Portuguese, and Taiwanese releases.
Check out our review of the complete anime series here.
Plot concept: Lucy, a beautiful young mutant, is bred by the military to be the ultimate weapon. Now, with government killers on her trail, the disposition of a five-year-old, and a hair trigger for ultraviolence, Lucy and her young friends must unravel the dark secret of her legacy before it’s too late.
New @DarkHorseComics manga license: Elfin Lied – coming in 2019, in four 3-in-1 omnibus editions #AX2018 pic.twitter.com/Brjng2ALax
— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 5, 2018
