For the 20th anniversary of Fullmetal Alchemist, Shonen Gangan surprisingly announced Yomi no Tsugai, new series by Hiromu Arakawa. The well-known mangaka, which has brought out hits like Silver Spoon and The Legend of Arslan over the years, returns to the magazine that made it famous more than ten years later.
The first cover of Yomi no Tsugai, released a few days ago by Square Enix, started the countdown to the release of the series in Japan, which is now sold out. So let’s see what Yomi no Tsugai is about in the summary of the first chapter.
In a distant village a woman wants to give birth to twins. However, while one is being born, another is still in the womb as dawn breaks. The grandmother tells her to resist and not to give birth, since they are the rulers of the Tsugai. will be. A few years later, Asa went hunting. The blond boy returns to his remote village with a small prey, a pheasant, which he will serve for dinner. In this small, remote corner of the world, life is normal, with some people involved in the lowland trade and carrying various products from one place to another.
Asa returns home and meets his sister YuruYou, a girl with long black hair who plays an important role and is therefore always locked in a completely dark room. Her parents have left her, but Asa is determined to continue living in the village to be with Yuru. On the same day, Asa meets the merchant, who is supposed to act as a link between her village and the other countries, from whom he receives a gift for Yuru.
However, this gift will not get to its destination in the event of a sudden attack by some helicopters and a well-trained army that begins to kill all residents. In particular, one girl uses a strange force with which she cuts and tears the corpses of some men in the village. Asa is shocked and goes to Yuru, who is apparently killed by a woman with long black hair and a spot on the right eye. As Asa prepares for the attack, she reveals that she is Yuru herself and will attack the protagonist with a mysterious force, creating an opening in the wall behind her.
The gift ball slips out of Asa’s hands and heads towards Yuru’s body, from which a few shadows emerge, imprisoning the woman in black. At that moment Dera, the man who seemed to be a simple village merchant, takes Asa and takes him with him. Secured near the village’s sacred statues, Dera gives Asa a medallion telling him Sayuu-sama will protect him. With this medallion, the two statues come to life from the destruction of the two helicopters: the creatures are called tsugai. reveal, now in the service of Asa.
the The next chapter of Yomi no Tsugai will arrive at Shonen Gangan in January 2022.
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