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It has been decided that an anime adaptation will be made for Hoozuki no Reitetsu, a popular manga currently serialized in Kodansha’s comic magazine, Morning. This announcement came on July 4, on which day the official website also opened and started the distribution of the latest information regarding the anime. In addition, combined with the announcement, a teaser visual was also released.
Hoozuki no Reitetsu is a work Natsumi Eguchi started drawing in 2011. A slightly black comedy mainly revolving around Hoozuki, first aide of Enma (Yama), the King of Hell, unfolds.
The story takes place in a trouble-ridden hell after the war. There is a population explosion, the evil spirits are getting more atrocious, and the dead are too many in number. Hell, suffering from short-handedness and is in a chaos never seen before. The protagonist, Hoozuki, is a man working in the shadows, filling in for the busy Enma and remedying various problems. He is relentlessly blamed even by Enma, who skips his duties with the dead, and so the days in hell continue.
It has only been a little more than two years since the manga started serializing, but it already has a high reputation. It won the first place in Da Vinci magazine’s “Upcoming Manga Ranking” and “All-Japan Bookshop Clerks’ Comic Recommendation 2012.” It is safe to say that at present, it is one of the most popular manga around.
Volumes 1-9 are selling with high praises, and it is very probable that it will gain even more popularity now that the anime adaptation was decided.
Hoozuki no Reitetsu is also being promoted abroad. The first PV of the anime was shown at the 14th Japan Expo in Paris, France, and also at Anime Expo, which was held on the same day in Los Angeles, U.S. Distribution of the same PV started on the official website on July 6.
Source: AnimeAnime
© Natsumi Eguchi, Kodansha Ltd. / Hoozuki no Reitetsu Production Committee