Back in September, Vertical picked up an interesting manga license with Prophecy, a three volume manga series from Tetsuya Tsutsui. Tsutsui has had a number of short run series to date but it’s this one that’s now getting a live action film adaptation. There are no details about the production yet, which was announced via the cover page for Tsutsui’s new manga series that starts soon with Yugai Toshi.
It originally ran from the summer of 2011 to the summer of 2013 in Jump X for twenty-two chapters playing up the cyber police mystery genre pretty well. Tsutsui has been doing relatively short-form manga series for over ten years now with most of his books being one-shots when you get down to it, making them complete stories that tells a particular tale and moves on. Vertical has a planned September 2014 release date for the first volume.
Plot concept: Tokyo Police Department’s Cybercrime Division is headed by the young, brilliantly ruthless Yoshino Erika. Her track record has been solid, but when a new threat appears online, it starts making all the headlines. A man who goes by Shinbunshi, because of the newspaper mask he wears, begins acting as a vigilante of justice. His message is simple: he can see what is wrong with society right now and although he doesn’t have the power to change it, he can help the frustrated citizens release their pent up anger from the crimes that go unpunished like people treating others like trash, corrupt government pushing their weight around and other issues the typical person has no control over. Although it starts relatively harmless, it quickly snowballs out of control thanks to the power of social media and the Shinbunshi becomes an overnight internet sensation with the severity of the crimes exponentially increasing.
[Source: ANN]