The Kadokawa publishing house listed that this year's sixth edition of Monthly Comic Alive magazine, which will be launched on April 26, will include a manga titled 86: Fragmental Neoteny. This manga will be a prequel to Asato's light novels Asato 86: Eighty-Six.
Asato began publishing the light novels through Kadokawa's Dengeki Bunko imprint in April 2017, with Shirabi in charge of illustrations and artist I-IV in charge of mechanical designs. The play is inspiring a manga adaptation by Motoki Yoshihara that is published in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine.
The work is also inspiring an anime adaptation on air since April 10 in Japan, produced by A-1 Pictures studios, under the direction of Toshimasa Ishii and scripts written by Toshiya Ono. The series is confirmed with two parts that will be broadcast separately, with the first having eleven episodes.
Synopsis for 86: Eighty-Six
The Republic of Saint Magnolia. This country has long been under siege by its neighbor, the Giadian Empire, which created a series of unmanned drones called the Legion. After years of painstaking research, the Republic finally developed its own autonomous drones, turning the one-sided fight into a casualtyless war - or at least, that's what the government claims.
In truth, there is no bloodless war. Beyond the walls that protect the eighty-five territories of the Republic is the “nonexistent” “Eighty-Six Sector”. The young men and women of this forsaken land are branded "The Eighty-Six" and, stripped of their humanity, lead the "unmanned" weapons into battle ... Shinn directs the actions of a detachment of Eighty-Six youths in the battlefield. Lena is a "manipulator" who commands the detachment from the remote rear with the help of special communication. The farewell story of the severe and sad fight of these two begins!
Source: Kadokawa
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