With the anime adaptation set after the recent announcement of the project, a manga adaptation has also been scheduled for M3 – The Black Steel. While the anime adaptation has some big names with Junichi Sato, Mari Okada and Shoji Kawamori attached to it, the manga is no slouch either as the adaptation will be handled by Kazuomi Minatogawa. it’s scheduled to debut in the Monthly Comic Blade magazine with its first appearance set for the April 30th issue. Minatogawa only has one formal series under his belt with Carnaval Glare, which was for only one volume in 2013, but he’s done a lot of pinup work that’s available on the internet which is pretty slick looking.
The series is scheduled to debut on April 21st, 2014, as one of the later new series of the season.
Cast:
Tetsuya Kakihara as Minashi Maki
Kotori Koiwai as Sasame Izuriha
Tsugumi (cast member not announced yet)
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Akashi Saginuma
Kasane (cast member not announced yet)
Yōko Hikasa as Emiru Hazaki
Kairi (cast member not announced yet)
Ayumu Murase as Heito Isaku
Susaki (cast member not announced yet)
Sayuri Yahagi as Raika Kasumi
Tomoaki Maeno as Iwato Namito
Misato Fukuen as Maamu Yuzuki
Plot concept: There is distorted, deep blackness everywhere.
That place, in which blackness swallowed everything and took away everything, has become known as the avidya zone. Strange beings assume the very form of the despair and chaos of humanity. They are known by this name: Imashime. An expedition surveys the avidya zone which consumes human spirits. So, in the intricate intersection between the present in impending crisis and the destiny of the past … can eight boys and girls, assembled to confront the Imashime, find the bright future that lies before the avidya zone?
[Source: ANN]