Timing is everything and Viz Media is certainly landing well with that when it comes to the manga series Terra Formars. The property is getting an anime adaptation later this year and Viz Media has the first volume of the manga lined up for release on July 15th, 2014. That will certainly work well to tie into each other and build a few more fans that way. The series comes from writer Yu Sasuga and artist Kenichi Tachibana as part of the VIZ Signature line, which means it gets the M rating and will be priced a bit higher at $12.99. Viz Media intends to bring out the volumes bi-monthly until they catch up with the still ongoing release in Japan (which also has a couple of spinoff’s that I hope we get).
“Kenichi Tachibana’s crisp and kinetic artwork is the perfect vehicle for Yu Sasuga’s sci-fi action drama that will grab TERRA FORMARS readers from the very first chapter,” says Mike Montesa, Editor. “Step off-world into a stark vision of humanity’s future gone shockingly awry in this intense new horror story that presents the dark side to man’s quest to create new worlds among the stars.”
Plot concept: In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth has reached the breaking point and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined…
In the opening volume, after humanity’s first manned mission to the Red Planet was lost, a second expedition arrives. The explorers prepare to exterminate the cockroaches that were used to transform the Martian environment, but are shocked to discover that the insects have mutated into giant, aggressive humanoids with one overriding goal – to exterminate all humans! However, this crew of explorers has each undergone the “Bugs Procedure,” a terrifying experimental surgery designed to make them more than human…
