Jormungand Manga Gets Anime Adaptation

Genkina Hito

映画男!!!
Takahashi Keitarou’s action-adventure manga series, Jormungandm, is getting a TV anime adaptation with White Fox handling the production.


Jormungand vol 1 cover by Mercury Rex, on Flickr

<i>Synopsis

Koko Hekmatyar is an unofficial arms dealer for HCLI, a weapons manufacturer. As an unofficial seller she must avoid the authorities of different countries because her work is illegal under international law. To protect her she has a team of bodyguards who are mostly ex-military. The latest recruit is Jonah, a seemingly emotionless and highly skilled child soldier who hates weapons dealers. As he follows Koko and herbodyguards he is searching for the weapons dealer responsible for the death of his family in order to exact revenge.</i>

News was announced on the wraparound jacket band on the 10th volume of Jormungand.


Jormungand vol 10 cover by Mercury Rex, on Flickr

White Fox should be familiar to anime fans from their work on Steins;Gate. They are currently working on a Steins;Gate Movie.

The manga was originally serialised in Shogakukan’s Monthly Sunday GX magazine in 2006 and it end in the February  2012. Viz Media currently publishes the book in English.

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Wow. This actually sounds like a novel idea. I'm thinking Black Lagoon crossed with FMP or something. I like its premise very much. I shall definitely check it out.
 
Once again I have to say I am really Excited for this, It definitely does ring towards Black Lagoon and Dogs: Bullets & Carnage.

Should be an enjoyable series! :D
 
It should be pretty hard to make anything less than an interesting show out of that setting (plus anything that vaguely references Norse mythology wins with me), and White Fox have done stellar work on Katanagatari and S;G so this is very much on my radar.
 
The latest recruit is Jonah
And a whale of a time was had by all. And so it ends.

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Jonah_in_the_whale_detail_Verdun_altar.jpg/606px-Jonah_in_the_whale_detail_Verdun_altar.jpg" width="250">
 
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