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Wild Adapter Anime's 1st Promo With Animation Streamed
posted on by Egan Loo
The official website for the Wild Adapter anime began streaming the second promotional video — the first with animated footage — last week. The video confirms the delay of the first volume from January 24 to March 26, 2014 due to production issues.
In the original manga by Kazuya Minekura (Saiyuki), a young gang leader named Makoto Kubota (Toshiyuki Morikawa) takes in Minoru Tokitoh (Hideo Ishikawa), a boy with a mysterious past. Minoru has been exposed to the drug "W.A." which has transformed his right arm into a monstrous limb. The two investigate the origins of the drug that is devastating the city's underground.
The limited edition of the first volume will include a special DVD sleeve case with an exclusive illustration by Minekura, audio commentaries by Morikawa and Ishikawa, a picture label, a special CD with an original drama specially written by Minekura and character messages, an exclusive booklet with cast interviews, and two bromide cards. The final volume of the anime will ship later in 2014.
The manga had originally launched in Tokuma Shoten's bimonthly Chara magazine in 2001, but then it switched publishers to Ichijinsha last year. The characters of Wild Adapter had appeared in Minekura's Shiritsu Araiso Kōtōgakkō Seitokai Shikkōbu (Araiso Private High School Student Council Executive Committee) manga and its 2002 video anime adaptation. Minekura began serializing her Saiyuki Reload Blast and Wild Adapter manga series on a reduced schedule earlier this year due to her health.
Tokyopop licensed the Wild Adapter manga in 2006 for release in North America. The company published six volumes before the company closed its North American publishing division.
The anime's first promotional video without actual animated footage debuted in July:
[Via NicoTubeAnime]
