On the eve of Book Expo America, Tokyopop announced that it has acquired the rights to the novel and manga GOTH, by Otsuichi. This sounds… gory; the press release describes the manga as “a truly graphic novel deluged with blood, guts, and awe.”
If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Tokyopop has already published Otsuichi’s Calling You. Kendi Oishi, who was the artist on the Calling You manga, is back for the manga adaptation of GOTH. (He also was the artist for Welcome to the NHK.) Here’s a sample of the art, posted by a fan on the Chapters website. Read on for all the gory details.
Going in for the Kill This Halloween, TOKYOPOP Acquires Book Publishing Rights to…
GOTH: A Novel of Horror
Novel And Manga To Be Unleashed Unto The World This Fall
Feature Film In Development At Fox Atomic
Book Expo America – Los Angeles, CA (May 29, 2008) ― A refrigerator packed with severed hands… a pit of decaying dogs… a voice recorded moments before a grisly death… a serial killer who becomes the talk of a stunned nation. This October, just in time for Halloween, TOKYOPOP will publish Otsuichi’s award-winning GOTH: A Novel of Horror, the story of two teenagers linked by a caustic fascination with murder and torture. GOTH: A Novel of Horror, winner of Japan’s Honkaku Mystery Prize, is a literary journey of mystery, obsession, and sheer terror all balled up into a spine-tingling read.
Additionally, in September, TOKYOPOP will release the one-volume manga adaptation by Kendi Ohishi (Welcome to the N.H.K., Calling You)–a truly graphic novel deluged with blood, guts, and awe–loosely based on the novel.
Fox Atomic has optioned the hit novel for feature film development, with horror director and videogame scribe J.T. Petty set to write and direct.
According to TOKYOPOP Senior Editor Jenna Winterberg, “Mastermind Otsuichi’s page-turner about two high school sociopaths and half a dozen murder cases will leave you breathless. And if the suspense doesn’t get you, the gore surely will.” Winterberg continues: “GOTH goes for the jugular. But it isn’t a B-movie blood bath: The psychological profiles are real and vivid, and the twists are guaranteed to blow your mind, turning perception on its head time and time again.”
This genre-defying novel will be supported by an elaborate online marketing plan that will feature a macabre alternate reality game and viral campaigns across key social networking sites. GOTH: A Novel of Horror will appeal to fans of Japanese classics such as The Grudge and The Ring, and like all depraved, disturbing serial killings, will no doubt become the talk of the nation this fall.
Though I found the “Calling You” light novel satisfying and properly moving, I must say that, for whatever reason, I didn’t care for the manga at all.
Probably because the Calling You manga is shit.
The Goth manga is good, but it totally ruins the ending to the novel; read the novel first.
where can I find the actual novel??? I have seen the manga, and read it, but I want the novel sooo bad!
Please someone help me and tell me where it is?
The novel just came out this month. Here’s a link from Tokyopop:
http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2547/GOTH/1