New Manga Coming to America in May

TOKYOPOP has announced plans to translated the gruesome and controversial Battle Royale manga for English speaking readers. Famed comic book writer Keith Giffen will script the English language adaptation of the manga, which is based on Koshun Takami’s novel, which also spawned director Kinji Fukasaku’s highly popular and controversial live action movie adaptation.

CPM will be bringing the first volume of Hitoshi Tomizawa’s Alien Nine manga to America this May with a 224 page graphic novel published in authentic Japanese style right to left format.