Publisher Living the Line announced on Instagram on Tuesday that it has licensed Shinichi Koga’s Mansect (Yо̄chū) manga for its horror imprint Smudge.
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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.”
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The manga inspired six live-action films between 1995 and 2006, as well as a live-action television series in 1997.
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Koga debuted the single-volume Mansect manga in 1975.