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Viz Media Acquires Master Merchandise Rights for Terra Formars
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Company expects to roll out merchandise starting this year
Terra Formars anime series.
Starting this year Viz Media plans to release a variety of products based on the animated series, which is itself based on licensed the manga and will release the fifth volume on March 17.
Viz Media describes the story:
InTerra Formars, after humanity's first manned mission to the Red Planet was lost a second expedition arrives. The explorers prepare to exterminate the cockroaches that were used to transform the Martian environment, but are shocked to discover that the insects have mutated into giant, aggressive humanoids with one overriding goal – exterminate the humans! However, this crew of explorers has each undergone the “Bugs Procedure,” terrifying experimental surgery designed to make them more than human…
The television anime OVA) project adapts the Bugs 2 arc on discs bundled with the 10th and 11th manga volumes. The Annex 1 arc takes place 20 years after the Bugs 2 arc.
VOD and merchandising rights in Europe. No company has announced North American home video rights for the series.
Prolific director adaptation slated for next year.
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