Following its adaptation into a live-action TV series that is currently streaming on Disney+ and Hulu, ABLAZE has confirmed they have acquired the western distribution rights to GANNIBAL.
This is pitched as an “intense 13-volume horror manga”, which comes from the mind of Masaaki Ninomiya. This is not a re-license of a manga, and will be the first time that English readers worldwide will get to purchase an officially localised version of the manga.
In GANNIBAL, Daigo Agawa is a resident police officer who has been recently assigned to the remote mountain village of Kuge. He is initially warmly welcomed by the villagers, but with the suspicious death of an old woman, he gradually becomes aware of the anomaly of the village and begins to suspect that “The people in this village are eating people”.
Volume 1 will be available as a paperback release in November 2023, with Volume 2 scheduled for February 2024. The remaining eleven volumes will be published in due course.
Fancy a preview of what you are in for? Check out this 6-page preview of GANNIBAL below:
