Star Wars: Lost Stars To Receive Online Manga Adaptation.
In today’s headline that we thought we’d never read, it turns out that Claudia Gray’s acclaimed novel Star Wars: Lost Stars is going to be adapted into a manga that will be released online for free. While there’s no word of an English-language release as of yet, the Japanese webcomic will begin publication on May 4, 2017.
From LINE Corporation’s official website (loosely translated):
“To kill you, to love you…” A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away, eight years have passed since the Galactic Republic transformed into the Galactic Empire. Two young lovers, Thane Kyrell and Ciena Ree, both longed for the ideals of the Empire and volunteered for the Imperial Navy. The truth about the Empire’s motives splits the two apart, as she remains loyal to her core beliefs while he sides with the Rebellion to seek justice. This Star Wars story about two young people who tried to survive the turbulent era of Rebellion and the Empire is an adaptation of the English novel by Claudia Gray.
The webcomic will be illustrated by Yuusaku Komiyama, who previously worked on manga adaptations of Capcom’s Ixion Saga and Marvel’s Avengers/Zombie Assemble. An illustration promoting the comic can be seen below:
As mentioned above, the series begins publication on May 4 of this year. The novel is commonly cited as one of the best in the canon by fans, so it should be worth a look if you’re already a fan of the story or if you’re on the fence about looking beyond the novel’s young-adult romantic premise.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
“While there’s no word of an English-language release as of yet, the Japanese webcomic will begin publication on May 4, 2017.”
So expect an English translation by that weekend… This is manga we are talking about 😉
Well, yeah. The question is if it will be an *official* translation…
– Pomojema
I hope, but that won’t stop me from reading the fan-translated one. I would think there would be an official English translation, knowing how popular manga/Star Wars are in English speaking nations lol
Whoa. I wonder if this is going to start opening the doors to other book adaptations, or even original stories in manga format in the new canon. How rad would that be?
The OT was done in a Manga web comic last year.
http://www.webtoons.com/en/sf/starwars/ch-1-an-old-friend/viewer?title_no=544&episode_no=1
That’s great news! I love Manga and despite my interest in the content of SW novels, I’ve always been a pretty bad SW novel reader. Hopefully this is just the beginning.
And hopefully, a proper anime adaptation of something Star Wars related. 🙂
The Tie Fighter shortfilm was amazing! Anime and manga fits this world so well…
It’s worth pointing out that in the lead-up to TFA, there was a really cool Star Wars webtoon published in Korea. It tells the story of a young Luke encountering danger on Tattooine, and Obi-Wan’s intervention. The art was really cool! My Korean isn’t good enough to translate it, but you can get the gist of the basic story beats just from the images. Thought the folks here would be interested!
http://webtoon.daum.net/webtoon/viewer/30177
Yeah, I remember that being a thing. I really like this as an idea and I hope they do more with it.
– Pomojema
The child version of myself – who loved anime and loved Star Wars, but never expected them to come together – is drooling!
Here’s the complete English version, handily divided in chapters:
http://www.webtoons.com/en/sf/starwars/list?title_no=544
Dang, I had no idea it was translated! And, I didn’t know there were other episodes! I’d only heard about it from Korean friends. Thanks a bunch!!
I was surprised myself it already encompasses the entire OT 🙂
Enjoy!
Awesome stuff. Thanks!
Cool X) Love it!
Hope this may lead the development of a future anime (Maybe either this or another Star Wars-related show) for the franchise. The Avengers and Marvel got them, why not give a shot to Star Wars as well?
That would be groovy. I think that style would suits Star Wars.
Hopefully better than those. The Wolverine and Blade ones were pretty good but the rest I really had to force myself to finish.
And this still needs to happen…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_CP4SuoTU
🙂
YES!
I’m down for this. As a big anime/manga fan, I do like the medium. And combining it with Star Wars is like a match made in heaven. And besides, I do love Lost Stars. It is one of my favorite books of the new canon and really showcased Claudia Gray’s writing chops. This and Bloodline really do make me believe she is close to being the next Timothy Zahn.
I’ll wait for her next book to see, but regardless this is an excellent story and for those who haven’t checked it out; check it out! It may surprise you.
I’m hoping that after Leia: Princess of Alderaan, we get Lost Stars 2.
So I guess Lost Stars is an “English novel” now. Nice.
Vader still looks the same too. I have the ones for TPM and the OT, I’d like to see them finish off the PT next
Interesting; this is the first ever Star Wars Manga adaption in the new canon. ^_^
Technically, there were ones done before in the 90s for the Original Trilogy and The Phantom Menace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(manga)
Yeah, I remember those.
BUt this may be the first being done mainly by the Japanese. 😛
Indeed so.
Yeah, but that’s not canon.
– Pomojema
We know. -_-
I hope this takes off in japan. Really love the original Lost Stars.
Vader seems a little prognathous 😛
Love the idea! Hope we will see a great animation (two of my last anime films are brilliant: The boy and the beast and The garden of words). Probably this will open doors to make animation SW films to explain more stories.
Great!
This is manga, not animation. A graphic webnovel.