Terra Formars Anime Gets New Season

08.13.2015 14:31

Terra Formars Manga:

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It will be announced that Terra Formars TV Anime is getting new season on this year's 38th issue of Shueisha's Young Jump magazine. More information will be released later.

The first season of the anime aired in September in 2014, adapting the Annex 1 arc of the manga. The Bugs 2 arc takes place 20 years before the Annex 1 arc, which was adapted into the original video anime. The OVA discs was bundled with the 10th and 11th manga volumes.

The manga also got a live-action film which will open in Japan in 2016, directed by Takashi Miike (live-action films of Ichi the Killer, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Yatterman, Tokyo Tribe, As the Gods Will, Crows, Mogura no Uta). Kazuki Nakashima (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill) will in charge of the screenplay for the film.

Terra Formars is written by Yū Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana, which is serialized in Shueisha's magazine Weekly Young Jump since 2011.

The story:

In an attempt to colonize Mars, 21st century scientists tasked with terraforming the planet seed it with a modified algae to absorb sunlight and purify the atmosphere, and cockroaches whose corpses spread the algae across the planet as they feed.

Five hundred years later, the first manned ship to Mars lands and its six crew members are attacked by giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength, later labeled "Terraformars"; the crew is wiped out after sending a warning back to Earth. Decades later, a multinational expedition is sent to exterminate the mutated bugs and take control of the red planet only to be vanquished as well, except for two survivors who manage to return to Earth, one swearing to return and avenge their fallen companions. As a third expedition is assembled, questions are raised about the true origin of the Terraformars and their connection with a deadly virus afflicting mankind.

To fight the Terraformars' strength and agility, members of the second and third expedition undergo genetic modification to inherit the characteristics of other organisms, only possible after having a special organ implanted with a 36% chance of surviving the surgery itself.                          (From Wikipedia)