The Great War of Archimedes (known in Japan as Archimedes no Taisen), a historical fiction seinen manga by Norifusa Mita about a mathematical genius who struggles to uncover a conspiracy of fraud in the Japanese Imperial Navy in the years leading up to World War II, is being adapted into a live-action film.
The Great War of Archimedes is serialized in Kodansha’s Young Magazine.
The story follows Tadashi Kai, a major who works in the accounting department of the Imperial Navy and who risks his life to expose a conspiracy of fraud surrounding the construction of battleships.