The February subject of Kadokawa‘s Younger Ace journal revealed on Tuesday that Taro Sekiguchi‘s manga adaptation of Nahoko Uehashi‘s Shika no Ō (The Deer King) medical fantasy novel collection will resume on February 7.

The manga went on hiatus final October because of the delay of the novels’ anime movie adaptation. The Shika no Ō: Yuna to Yakusoku no Tabi (The Deer King: The Promised Journey With Yuna) anime movie will open on February 4.

Sekiguchi launched the manga on Kadokawa‘s Younger Ace Up web site in July 2021. The manga will finish with its second quantity.

The novels heart on Van, the pinnacle of a gaggle of troopers who anticipated to die preventing for his or her lands in opposition to a big empire seeking to incorporate their dwelling into its kingdom. As a substitute of dying, nonetheless, Van is taken as a slave and thrown right into a salt mine. One evening, a pack of unusual canine assaults the salt mine, and a mysterious sickness breaks out. Through the assault, Van takes the chance to flee, and he meets a younger woman. Elsewhere, rumor is spreading that solely immigrants are coming down with this mysterious sickness. The medical scientist Hossal dangers his life to seek for a remedy. Medical doctors additionally research a father and little one who appear to have survived the sickness. The novels inform the interconnecting tales and bonds of those that struggle in opposition to a merciless destiny.

The novels received the Japan Booksellers’ Award and received the fourth “Japan Medical Novel Award” in 2015.

The movie was delayed from a September 18, 2020 opening because of the ongoing new coronavirus illness (COVID-19), and delayed once more from September 10, 2021. Anime Restricted plans to launch the movie in cinemas in the UK in 2021 if the COVID-19 scenario permits. GKIDS will theatrically display screen the movie with each English subtitles and an English dub in North America in early 2022.

The movie screened in June in competitors finally yr’s Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant. The movie screened on the Fantasia Worldwide Movie Pageant in August 2021 and received the Bronze Viewers Award there. It additionally screened on the Animation Is Movie Pageant in Los Angeles in September 2021.

Uehashi’s Moribito and The Beast Participant Erin novel collection each obtained tv anime diversifications. Moribito additionally impressed a live-action tv collection adaptation. The North American writer Scholastic revealed the primary two volumes of Moribito in English. Uehashi received the Hans Christian Andersen Writer Award in 2014.

Supply: Younger Ace February subject