Viz Media imprint Haikasoru has announced the debut of Asura Girl:

VIZ Media’s Haikasoru imprint is excited to debut Otaro Maijo’s brazen ASURA GIRL. Winner of the Mishima Yukio Prize Japanese literary award, ASURA GIRL is a dark tale fraught with conspiracy, murder, apocalyptic fervor, and even love. This tense and gripping drama is available in English for the first time in print as well as digitally!

Seventeen-year-old Aiko lives a life of casual sex and casual violence, though at heart she remains a schoolgirl with an unrequited crush on her old classmate Yoji Kaneda. Life is about to get harder for Aiko, as a recent fling, Sano, has been kidnapped, and the serial killer Round-and-Round Devil has begun slaughtering children. The youth are rioting in the streets, egged on by the underground Internet bulletin board known as the Voice from Heaven. Expecting that Yoji will come and save her from the madness, Aiko posts a demand for her own murder on Voice of Heaven but will she be left waiting…or worse?

Copyright © Otaro Maijo, 2003
English translation Copyright © Stephen B. Snyder 2014