Hayakawa Publishing, a prominent Japanese publishing company plans to introduce a new manga service that will be adapting major literary works into manga. Hayakawa Publishing is celebrating its 79th anniversary with the launch of HayaComi, a new manga service that will host exclusive manga adaptations of popular works by authors like Agatha Christie, Stanislaw Lem, and Touma Osaka.

According to a post on X by MangaMoguraRE, popular novels such as Agatha Christies’s mystery series And Then There Were None and Stanisław Lem’s hit science fiction series Solaris will be receiving manga adaptations which will be available on the new manga service HayaComi from July 23, 2024.

According to the official press release by Hayakawa Publishing, each of these manga will be available worldwide, with the aim to “create a platform for readers who want to read the world’s masterpieces and artists who want to share their manga with the world.”

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And There Were None by Agatha Christie will be adapted by Aya Nikaido. Meanwhile Lem’s Solaris will be adapted by Tekaehito Moriizumi, the mangaka behind masterpieces like Yoru Yoru Soba Ni and Ringwanderung. In addition to these two works, HayaComi will also be adapting Touma Osaka’s award-winning novel Comrade Girl Shoot the Enemy which will be adapted into a manga by Rasenjin Hayami.

According to the press release other existing manga adaptations like Agatha Christie’s Poirot series, BRZRKR by Keanu Reaves and works by Natsuji Miyazaki and Yosuke Takahashi among others. HayaComi also plans to upload a re-edited version of Isaac Asimov’s The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire series, making this upcoming manga portal one to keep an eye out for especially for science-fiction manga lovers.

Source: MangaMoguraRE/X, PR Times