This year's 38th issue of Shueisha's Young Jump magazine is announcing on August 20 that production on a sequel to the anime of the Terraformars manga has been green-lit. More information will be unveiled in the following issue of the magazine.

Tachibana and Sasuga launched the original Terra Formars manga in 2011, and Shueisha will publish the 14th volume on August 19. The manga has 13 million copies in circulation. Viz Media is releasing the manga in North America, and it describes the story:

In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries, but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined... After humanity's first manned mission to the Red Planet was lost, a second expedition arrives. The explorers prepare to exterminate the cockroaches that were used to transform the Martian environment. They are shocked to discover that the insects have mutated into giant, aggressive humanoids with one overriding goal: exterminate the humans! But this crew of explorers has each undergone the "Bugs Procedure, " terrifying experimental surgery designed to make them more than human...

The television anime adapting the Annex 1 arc of the manga premiered in September, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. The companion original video anime (OVA) project adapts the Bugs 2 arc on discs bundled with the 10th and 11th manga volumes. The Annex 1 arc takes place 20 years after the Bugs 2 arc.

The manga is also inspiring a live-action film directed by Takashi Miike (live-action films of Ichi the Killer , Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney , Yatterman , Tokyo Tribe , As the Gods Will , Crows , Mogura no Uta ). Kazuki Nakashima ( Gurren Lagann , Kill la Kill ) penned the screenplay for the film. The film will open in Japan in 2016.

[Via Otakomu]