The Terra Formars manga by Yu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana is making a return from hiatus after over 5 years in April 2024. The announcement was made on March 28, with the series set to return in the 18th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump magazine, to be released on April 4. The manga has been on hiatus since December 2018 due to the author Yu Sasuga’s health issues.
To commemorate the return of the serialization, all chapters of the Terra Formars manga will be available for free for a limited time on the Young Jump manga app from March 28 to April 24. Additionally, a promotional video celebrating the return of the series was released on the official Young Jump Manga YouTube channel.
The manga originally began serialization in January 2011 in Shueisha’s Miracle Jump magazine and later moved to Weekly Young Jump in 2012. It has 22 volumes published and total sales exceeding 22 million copies. It was also adapted into a television anime in 2014, with another season releasing in 2016. It got a live-action film in 2016. Crunchyroll streams the anime, and they describe the story:
With Earth becoming increasingly overpopulated, an ambitious plan has been put into place to terraform Mars using mold and cockroaches. Nearly 500 years after the plan, a mission to Mars, Annex 1, is under way to accomplish crucial research into the Virus currently plaguing mankind with the crew members who’ve been injected with various DNA of life on Earth in order to combat the Terraformars, giant humanoid cockroaches.
This wasn’t the first time Terra Formars manga went on hiatus due to the author’s health issues, with another prolonged hiatus occurring from March 2017 to April 2018.
Source: Official YouTube
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