Killing City is a young science fiction manga by Japanese manga artist Hiroya Oku, serialized in Weekly Young Jump in 2000 and ended on June 20, 2013, with a cumulative circulation of more than 19.9 million copies.
The story takes place in the mysterious world of "Gantz", and the protagonist is a high school student Genno, who one day stumbles upon katsuo, a friend from elementary school, on the platform of the subway. Kato, who had a strong sense of justice at the time, planned to carry the drunkard on the fallen track to the platform, so he asked Genno for help, and both died in an accident, but the matter was not over, they were teleported to a mysterious enclosed room at the moment of death, through the window of the room, they could see the Tokyo Tower, but could not get out of this room. In this room, they saw a lot of people who should have died, there were hooligans, plmms, office workers, politicians, etc., have they all been reborn? As if nothing was going to happen, there was a black sphere in the middle of the room, suddenly lit up, issued instructions, and the strange black ball gave them a new life, but in exchange for completing their task of killing the monster, and they began a life of escape-like killing in the brutal killing battlefield.
The 2011 live-action film directed by Shinsuke Sato is divided into two parts, starring Kazuya Ninomiya, Kenichi Matsuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Hayaya Shiraishi, Yoshitani, and Shota Hongo.
Released in Japan on October 14, 2016, the new 3Dcg animation "Killing City O" is based on the original super popular chapter "Osaka Chapter", director Keiichi Sato in addition to creating "Kitomo Heroes" and "Saint Seiya: Legend of the Sacred Land" animation, the live-action movie "Black Deacon" in charge of the camera has also caused a hot topic.
Recently, according to the US media deadline report, the manga "Killing City" created by Ohoya is planning for live-action filming. The game will be produced by Sony Pictures, with Julius Avery as the director and Mark Guggenheim as the screenwriter.
For this live-action movie, the original author O Haoya said: The first time I heard about it. It was authorized before, but the progress is not known.