Versus Fighting Story & Crueler Than Dead

Ablaze is back with two new titles!

In August 2021 comes the e-sports inspired Versus Fighting Story written by Izu with artwork by Madd ad Kalon. This will be followed by another release in September called Crueler than Dead. The latter is a zombie survival horror adventure by Tsukasa Saimura and Kozo Takahashi.

Versus Fighting Story

Release Date: August 18th, 2021

Versus is billed as the first manga dedicated to the e-sports world and the cut-throat competition it involves. It has officially been endorsed by Capcom which is probably getting you all excited if you’ve ever played any of the legendary PvP fighting games.

As a result of the Capcom association and endorsement by the fighting game community, Versus features genuine Street Fighter characters and is produced to take on the best sports Shonen.

ABLAZE Publishing Reveals 2 New Manga Titles for August / September Release

Max Volta, leader of a team of professional players, launches an assault on the Capcom Pro Tour, one of the major international competitions for Street Fighter V.

Everything does not go as expected for the Max and even after being named top pick to win the tournament, he suffers a crushing defeat. Max takes it out on his friends, which leads to his sponsors pulling out. He is afraid his career is over.

But then the mysterious Inés offers to return to the basics of “VS fighting” and put together a team capable of beating the Japanese God of fighting games…

Crueler Than Dead

Release Date: September 29th, 2021

The fact that this was inspired by Katsuhiro Otomo – the name behind Akira – is enough to get excited about this title. The inspirations also include The Walking Dead and zombie films like 28 Days Later.

There is no other way of saying this, but the level of detail given to the decomposed flesh and the expressions of terror elaborated in this publication is making us both cringe and get extremely excited. It’s the equivalent of trying to watch a horror film with your hands over your eyes (yes we all know someone that does that!).

Maki Akagi wakes up in a lab full of corpses, she learns from a dying soldier that she is the result of a last-ditch experiment to cure humans of a virus turning them into zombies. Accompanied by a young boy who also miraculously escaped, she will have to try to get to the very center of a devastated Tokyo filled with bloodthirsty monsters.

The dome located there contains the last survivors of mankind. And humanity’s very survival depends solely on a few drops of this miraculous vaccine.

We must point out that in the times we live in, the pursuit of a vaccine makes this more relevant and also, more terrifying.

Titles will be available in print and digitally.

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ABLAZE is a publishing company releasing a variety of titles—in different formats, genres, and age ranges—original material, crowdfunded titles, reprints, art books, including international titles from Europe, Asia (manga, manhwa), and more.

The mantra of ABLAZE is quality first, with the goals of giving creators a platform, bringing new voices into the conversation, serving as diverse an audience as possible, and growing the company’s publishing schedule sustainably over time.

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