Akita Shoten’s Champion Cross website released the first part of the final chapter for Yasutaka Fujimi and Shu Hirose’s Dai Kyochū Rettō (Die! The Island of Giant Insects) sequel manga on Thursday. The manga has previously serialized each of its “chapters” in two parts.
The series entered its “final battle” phase in March 2024.
This manga serves as a sequel to The Island of Giant Insects (Kyochū Rettō), originally created by Fujimi and the artist group RED ICE. Dai Kyochū Rettō debuted on Akita Shoten’s free manga platform, Manga Cross, in April 2019. Akita Shoten published the manga’s 14th compiled volume in December 2024.
In addition to the sequel, Fujimi and Yōsuke Sazanami launched a spinoff series titled Kyochū Sanmyaku in Dokodemo Young Champion magazine in November 2019. The spinoff concluded in August 2024, and Akita Shoten published its eighth and final volume on January 20.
Fujimi and RED ICE first introduced The Island of Giant Insects manga on Akita Shoten’s Champion Cross website in 2014 before later moving it to Manga Cross.
Island of Giant Insects Sequel Manga
In December 2018, Hirose (El Cazador de la Bruja, Sōkō Akki Muramasa: Minagoroshi manga) took over as the series’ artist due to RED ICE group’s health issues. The original manga concluded in March 2019.
An anime adaptation of the original manga was released in Japan on DVD as part of a limited-edition bundle with the manga’s sixth and final volume in June 2019. A theatrical film adaptation followed, premiering in Japan in January 2020.
The film’s production team launched a Kickstarter campaign in February 2020 to fund an English dub, but the campaign failed to meet its goal. However, a second crowdfunding campaign in July 2020 successfully reached its target by August 2020.
The survival horror story begins when Mutsumi Oribe and her classmates, en route to a school field trip, experience a plane crash. They find themselves stranded on an island ruled by giant insects. The anime’s tagline reads: “On that island … humans are merely insect fodder.”
