The Shojo Beat imprint for Viz Media back in late 2013 had picked up the rights to the manga series Black Rose Alice. The series comes from Setona Mizushiro which began back in 2008 in the Princess magazine which has six volumes at that time – and had been on hiatus since 2012. In the years that followed, Viz Media brought out the six volumes that were produced in Japan and with nothing new, was simply caught up. Now, it looks like Mizushiro is ready to come back to the project eight years later as it’s set to return to Monthly Flowers magazine with the April 28th, 2020 issue for June.
It’s likely that any new material will be a new license/negotiations to acquire but it’ll give Viz Media a chance to sell what came before to a new audience if they work it right while celebrating the return of the series.
Mizushiro has had a number of pickups around the world and a few in the US such as After School Nightmare from Go! Comi and X-Day which was seen at TOKYOPOP.
Plot concept: Dimitri Lewandoski is a celebrated tenor in early 1900s Vienna. When he is killed in an accident, his corpse is colonized by the seeds of a vampire master. At first, Dimitri denies that anything has changed, but as the people around him start dying, he is forced to accept the ghastly truth.
Flash-forward to 2008. In Tokyo, Azusa Kikukawa’s troubled love life comes to an end with a fatal accident. Dimitri appears in her dying dreams with a diabolic proposal—he will save her lover if she agrees to become the breeding ground for the next generation of vampire seeds…
[Source: ANN]