Terra Formars
With an anime adaptation coming for Terra Formars, there’s a lot of interest in the property and you can imagine the editors figuring out ways to expand it in order to draw in more readers. Enter the spinoff manga, Terra For Police, which will debut in the next issue of Jump Kai magazine on May 10th, 2014. The new new series is working off of the same world as created by Yu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana but it’s working with a concept by Manpuku Do while turning over the illustration duties to Kaito Shibano. While the main Terra Formars series largely works with a serious storyline, Terra For Police will give us a slapstick comedy involving the characters of Michelle and Komachi re-imagined as police officers.
Original Series Plot Concept: With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold.
It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
[Source: ANN]