Fans of raw science fiction stories have just
received excellent news. Through the opening of its official website, the production
committee confirmed that the spectacular original action and
survival manga Tsugumi Project (known in Japan
under the title of Tora Tsugumi) will make the definitive leap to
television with its own animated adaptation. To warm up, those
responsible for the project released a first conceptual visual art and an
amazing promotional video that gives us a preview of the carnage that is to
come.
The narrative of this franchise is
merciless and drags us into a distant and extremely hostile future. The story
closely follows Leon, an elite soldier who is violently separated from his
family on trumped-up criminal charges to force him to accept a full-blown
suicide mission. Their dark goal is to recover a classified weapon baptized
only as "Tsugumi", which lies hidden in a cursed territory ruled by
gigantic and lethal irradiated mutant monsters. To make the premise even more
disturbing, that earthly hell from which no one expects Leon's team to return
alive is what two hundred years ago used to be known as Japan.
A triumph that conquered the West first
The most curious thing behind the resounding
success of this little gem is its unusual publication history. Author and
illustrator ippatu originally launched his work on the French
market in 2019, captivating European audiences long before the giant Kodansha decided
to repatriate the project to serialize it in the pages of Weekly Young
Magazine in early 2021. After keeping Japanese readers on the edge of
their seats, the work successfully concluded in September 2023, managing to
compile all its intense plot in a total of seven compilation volumes that will
now finally come to life on screen.
Considering the brutal level of explicit
violence and the bizarre mutations that the source material presents in each of
its panels
