Back in October, Netflix announced an exciting slate of new anime projects coming to the world's biggest streaming platform. Upcoming titles included:
- a new Baki season
- a second season of B the Beginning
- Godzilla: Singular Point, a new anime based on the king of monsters
- an original title about a city populated by robots titled Eden
- Pacific Rim: The Black- an anime based on the live-action Legendary Pictures film series
- a cg RE anime titled Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
- a Spriggan remake
- an adaptation of Chiaki Kon's The Way of the House Husband
- the previously releaased 4-episode JoJo spinoff - Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
- Vampire in the Garden, a new anime title from WIT Studio
- an anime based on Japan's first black samurai, Yasuke
- and last but not least, an anime based on Takahiro Oba and Tsuina Miura's (Ajin) 2012 horror surivial manga High-Rise Invasion
Late yesterday, Netflix released the first trailer for High-Rise Invasion, which confirmed a February 25 release date for the anime adaptation produced by Zero-G (Grand Blue, Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It). Masahiro Takata is directing the series from a script adapted by Touko Machida while tatsuo and Youichi Sakai team-up to compose the series' music.
Miura and Oba startted the manga series in 2013 on the DeNA mobile app, Manga Box where it ran until 2019. Kodnasha complied the series into 21 volumes while Seven Seas Entertainment translates and releases the series in English in North America. A total of 16 volumes have been translated to date with the next volume scheduled for release on March 23, 2021.
Japanese Trailer
English-dub Trailer
The unhinged and gory death-game manga High-Rise Invasion, created by Tsuina Miura (Ajin: Demi-Human) and Takahiro Oba (Box!), finally gets an anime adaptation! High school student Yuri Honjo finds herself lost in an “abnormal space” where countless skyscrapers are connected by suspension bridges and “masked figures” mercilessly slaughter their confused and fleeing victims. To survive in this hellish world, she has two choices: kill the masked figures or be killed. Yuri is determined to survive in order to destroy this irrational world, but what will be her ultimate fate?