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M&C! Licenses Mahiro Fuyube's Aldnoah.Zero 2nd Season Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Wednesday that it has licensed Mahiro Fuyube's Aldnoah.Zero 2nd Season manga. The company will release the first volume of the manga on January 11.
M&C! also announced that it will ship Sherlock: A Study in Pink, the manga adaptation of the first episode the Sherlock BBC series, on the same date. M&C! teased the release in October.
Aldnoah.Zero 2nd Season adapts the second season of the original television anime. The second season's story begins more than a year after the events depicted in the first season's final episode, with the Martian Vers Empire succeeding in its conquest of Earth. Slaine, now armed with the power of Aldnoah, fights loyally under the Empire, whose invasion is now spurred on by Lemrina, a half-sister of Princess Asseylum.
Fuyube launched the manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine in 2014. Houbunsha published the manga's fifth compiled book volume on December 12.
Pinakes launched a counterpart Aldnoah.Zero manga based on the anime's first season in Manga Time Kirara Forward in May 2014, and concluded it in 2015. M&C! released the manga's fourth and final compiled book volume in Indonesia on July 20.
The first anime season premiered in July 2014, and the second season in January 2015. The sci-fi mecha series is set on an alternate history Earth where the Apollo 17 mission's discovery of a hypergate that leads to Mars triggers the growth of two parallel cultures between Earth and Mars. Years after the first independence war ended inconclusively between the Martian Vers Empire and the United Forces of Earth, the apparent death of the Vers princess triggers a new war, with Earth forces fighting a losing action against Vers forces armed with mecha powered by high-tech artifacts from Mars.
