Dark Horse Manga announced four licenses at Anime Expo.
During their industry panel, the imprint of Dark Horse Comics that focuses on manga announced four new titles. These titles include a gorgeous deluxe edition of Gantz, a manga adaptation of a horror story by H.P. Lovecraft, a manga about travelers, and a tale about a samurai who has lost their memory. All of these titles will release early next year with Deva Zan coming out first.
Gantz Deluxe Edition
Hiroya Oku
Former Tokyo schoolmates Kei and Masaru are killed by a speeding train, but a split second later they’re alive, trapped in a room with other reanimated strangers and an ominous black sphere that gives them high-tech weapons, suits . . . and orders. Thrust into a violent game to hunt bizarre alien monstrosities, the team soon discover that the stakes are deadly serious and the dead can still die!
The first volume collects the first three volumes of Gantz, spanning over 600 pages. The deluxe edition includes a sleek faux leather cover with the battle suit in front and silver foil details, matte black sprayed edges, and a ribbon bookmark. Gantz Deluxe Edition comes out on April 6, 2027 and is priced at $54.99.
The Sky is but One Roof of the World
Kenji Tsuruta
Translation: Dana Lewis
Lettering: Susie Lee
Okunotorishima International Airport has everything for the traveler: a bar, a restaurant, a duty-free store. It even has a special runway that was once built for the Space Shuttle! In fact, the only thing it doesn’t have much of is actual travelers, as it’s located on a tiny, remote southern island of Japan. That makes it the perfect gig for Okunotorishima’s chief—the aviation industry’s greatest slacker, Cerezo Shitodoha.
Her love life keeps crashing, and her family relationships are stuck in a holding pattern…so what to do but turn her high-pressure job into a low-pressure one in this tropical paradise, tanning on the runway, chilling at the bar and grill, and teasing the airport’s just-as underworked immigration officer. But don’t mistake her laziness for incompetence—even if it’s an emergency landing of a jumbo jet, rest assured Cerezo will guide your flight safely, wearing flip-flops and bikini bottoms!
The Sky is but One Roof of the World comes out on April 6, 2027 and is priced at $17.99.
Deva Zan (Second Edition)
Yoshitaka Amano
Translation and lettering: Dark Horse editorial, overseen by Michael Gombos
In Japanese Buddhism, twelve generals—the Juni Jinsho—stood guard over the cosmos at the points of the zodiac. But now they have vanished, and nothing stands between us and the forces of darkness, except Deva Zan, a samurai without a memory. To restore order to existence, he must marshal not only his own fighting skill, but find companions that can cross the boundaries of time and space—to join him in a battle that will stretch from the fields of ancient Japan, to the streets of modern New York City—and to dimensions beyond human comprehension!
Deva Zan comes out on March 2, 2027 and is priced at $49.99.
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Haunter of the Dark
Gou Tanabe
Translation: Zack Davisson
Robert Blake is dead—killed by lightning through an oddly unbroken window, the features of his half-burned face set in a cadaveric spasm. Surely his final look was not one of real fear…after all, he was a writer and artist of imagined horrors and weird fiction. It must have been that imagination too that led young Blake to explore an abandoned church in Providence, its steeple shunned even by the birds—that caused him to write his wild ravings in his diary, of the former Starry Wisdom cult that once worshipped there, of their relic the Shining Trapezohedron, of Azathoth, the blind idiot god who sprawls at the center of all chaos.
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Haunter of the Dark comes out on April 27, 2027 and is priced at $14.99.
Source: Dark Horse Manga
