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© Shinichi Koga, Akita Shoten
Publishing house Living the Line announced on Instagram on Tuesday that it has licensed Shinichi Koga's Mansect (Yо̄chū) manga to its horror publication Stain. Ryan Holmberg is translating.
The publisher is also releasing Maruo Suehiro's Beautiful Monster (Barairo no Kaibutsu) manga.
Koga launched the one-volume Mansect manga in 1975.
Living the Line describes the manga:
People grow up and get old. They change. But we are always the same person, the same creature. Not so with insects, they have the ability to metamorphose not only changing their shape and size but also their being. And now, because of a young man's unhealthy obsession with insects, humans too find themselves transformed into disgusting, debilitating, blood-sucking insect monsters! Published in 1975, Koga Shinichi's MANSECT is a horror classic from one of the undisputed masters of the genre. Filled with fascinating, spine-tingling imagery and bizarre biological evolutionary speculation, Koga here proves why his name is uttered with the same trembling reverence as horror manga legends Mizuki Shigeru, Umezz Kazuo and Ito Junji. MANSECT is the third volume of SMUDGE, a classic horror, mystery, and dark fantasy manga line, curated and translated by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.
Koga published the original horror manga series Eko Eko Azarak in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from 1975 to 1979, and Akita Shoten published the series in 19 volumes. The manga inspired six live-action films between 1995 and 2006, as well as a live-action television series in 1997. The manga also inspired a two-episode OVA series in 2007. Also , the manga is also inspired by two video games.
Koga passed away on March 1, 2018.
Living the Line describes Smudge as “a line of classic horror, horror and dark fantasy manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.” Her Frankenstein was the first title published.
Source: Instagram page Ryan Holmberg's Instagram page
