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Last Friday, Titan Comics announced their acquisition and expected release date of Minoru Murao’sBakuretsu Tenshi (Burst Angel)manga, which was first published by Tokyopop in English. Thefirst volumeofBurst Angelpublished under Titan Comics' Titan Manga imprint is expected to be released next year.
TheBurst Angelmanga is an adaptation of the original anime produced by Gonzo, with the manga originally published by MediaWorks, a Kadokawa affiliate famous for its various Dengeki imprints, themost notable of which is the Dengeki Bunko. The first volume ofBurst Angelwill be available June 18, 2025, and is currently available for pre-order viaAmazon. TheBurst Angelanime series is available for streaming onCrunchyroll.
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TheBurst Angelanime serieswas born from a screenplay created by Fumihiko Shimo (screenwriter of many adaptations of Key visual novels includingKanon,AirandClannad), with direction from Koichi Ohata (storyboard artist,Healin' Good Pretty Cure). The series is set in a future where a rise in crime has prompted the Japanese government to allow civilians and the police to carry firearms.
The Recently Armed Police Force (RAPT) is a much graver form of policing that prioritizes eliminating criminals rather than arresting or subduing them. The story follows four mercenaries named Jo, Meg, Sei, and Amy, and a male college student named Kyohei Tachibana, who has dreams of going to culinary school.
He ends upworking as a cookfor the mercenaries, who work for a group known as Bailan, after being caught up in a gunfight between Jo and a gangster. He works for them in order to raise enough money to travel to France; however, Kyohei has his work cut out for him as the group investigates strange monsters wreaking havoc across Tokyo.
The anime ran for 24 episodes from April to September 2004, with an OVA calledBurst AngelInfinity being released in 2007. The manga series created by Murao is a prequel titledAngel’s Adolescence,which ran in Dengeki’s shonen magazine, Dengeki Comic Gao!, for three volumes from January 2004 to June 2005, with the series dropping its last issue in August 2005.
The manga was originally licensed for distribution in North America by Tokyopop from September 2008 to May 2009, with Titan Comics licensing it in 2023 and the first volume set to arrive in May 2024.
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