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Akihito Yoshitomi's Eat-Man Manga Gets New Anime Project
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures revealed on Thursday the new anime project for Akihito Yoshitomi's Eat-Man manga titled EAT-MAN The Over Order. The company also revealed a super teaser video, teaser visual, the main staff members, and the return of Masashi Ebara as protagonist Bolt Crank, from the two previous anime adaptations.
Shunji Ōga (Romance of Three Kingdoms, several Soreike! Anpanman films, Golgo 13 chief director) is directing the new anime at Studio Cab. Original manga creator Yoshitomi is in charge of scripts and original designs, and Satoshi Hirayama (Cat's Eye season 2, Lupin III specials, Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie) will adapt Yoshitomi's character designs for animation.
Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures had teased a new project on September 4.
Yoshitomi drew his original Eat-Man manga from 1996 to 2002. Viz Media published part of the original manga in North America. The story follows Bolt Crank, a man who can eat anything and reproduce it in his right hand. The original manga received anime adaptations in 1997 and 1998. Bandai Entertainment released Eat-Man `98 on DVD with an English dub, and Discotek Media released both anime on subtitle-only DVD. Crunchyroll began streaming both anime in 2019.
Yoshitomi launched the Eat-Man The Main Dish manga in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine in May 2014. The six-volume manga ended serialization in 2019.
ADV Manga published Yoshitomi's Ray manga, while Section23 Films released the Ray television anime as well as the Blue Drop anime inspired by Yoshitomi's manga of the same name. Yoshitomi also drew Cyborg 009 Vs. Devilman: Breakdown, the manga adaptation of the Cyborg 009 Vs. Devilman crossover anime. The one compiled volume shipped in April 2016.
Source: Press release
