Supreme Gasp Licenses Suehiro Maruo’s The Caterpillar Manga

ICv2 reported on Friday that Supreme Gasp Publishing has licensed Suehiro Maruo‘s (Mr. Arashi’s Very fair appropriate Freak Advise, The Weird Fable of Panorama Island) manga adaptation of Rampo Edogawa‘s The Caterpillar (Imo-mushi) list for liberate in English in hardcover and paperback in 2026.

Rampo Edogawa wrote the list in 1929. Maruo serialized the adaptation in Enterbrain‘s Comedian Beam journal from Would possibly maybe well perchance also 2009 to August 2009. The company released the manga as a compiled quantity in October 2009. The annual Angoulême International Comics Festival nominated the manga for Simplest Comedian in 2010.

The original 1929 quick list follows the tragic homecoming of a disfigured, limbless World Battle I at threat of his partner. Edogawa is better known for his detective and suspense tales that he wrote over the course of four decades. “The Caterpillar” quick list has been already published in English in the Japanese Tales of Mystery and Creativeness prose e-book. Edogawa’s list inspired a are living-movement movie in 2010. Kōji Wakamatsu directed the movie and 60th Berlin International Film Festival nominated it for its Golden Endure award.

Hiroshi Harada tailored Maruo’s 1984 erotic horror manga Mr. Arashi’s Very fair appropriate Freak Advise (Shojo Tsubaki) into an anime movie in 1992. The manga also inspired a are living-movement movie adaptation in Would possibly maybe well perchance also 2017. Blast Books published the manga’s one compiled quantity in North The united states in 1993.

More no longer too prolonged ago, Maruo launched the An Gura (an abbreviation for “underground”) manga in Kadokawa‘s Monthly Comedian Beam journal in November 2021, and ended it in March 2023.

Supreme Gasp Publishing released Maruo’s The Weird Fable of Panorama Island manga in English in 2013. The manga became nominated for the 2014 Will Eisner Comedian Alternate Awards. Supreme Gasp will post a paperback version of the manga in October.

Writer Bubbles Zine released Maruo’s Exquisite Monster manga in English in February 2025. Ryan Holmberg translated the manga.

Maruo gained the “New Artist Prize” of the thirteenth Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes in 2009, though he has been drawing manga professionally since 1980.

Offer: ICv2 (Brigid Alverson)

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