Publisher Living the Line announced on Instagram on Tuesday that it has licensed Shinichi Koga’s Mansect (Yо̄chū) manga for its horror imprint Smudge.
Living the Line describes Smudge as “a line of classic pulp, horror, and dark fantasy manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.”
The manga inspired six live-action films between 1995 and 2006, as well as a live-action television series in 1997.
Koga debuted the single-volume Mansect manga in 1975.