From 1998-2008 46 year-old manga author Hiroki Endo wrote Gnostic-informed, hyper-violent, political sci-fi Eden: It's an Endless World!, published in North America by Dark Horse, for Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Afternoon. Then, from 2008-2016, he wrote mixed martial arts sports manga All Rounder Meguru for Evening. Now, he's back in Afternoon and back to sci-fi in his new Soft Metal Vampire.





The series debuts in today's new October issue of Afternoon, which also features the end of Genshiken: Second Generation, and a supplement celebrating that series.

Endo describes the story of humanity sharing a world with vampires as neo-sekaikei, a term which cultural critic Hiroki Azuma applied to works in which apocalyptic crises are intermeshed with the young leads' personal concerns, like high school romances and growing pains; think Evangelion.

情報解禁という訳で、来月8月25日発売のアフタヌーン誌上にて私、遠藤浩輝は

新連載

『ソフト メタル ヴァンパイア』

を開始します。

お楽しみにしてもしなくてもどっちでもいいですが面白いと思うのでなんとなく見てやって下さい。 pic.twitter.com/OVODV6ABtW — 遠藤 浩輝 新連載はアフタヌーン (@hiroki_endo) July 24, 2016



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.