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Gail Carriger's SOULLESS Gets Manga Adaptation
Yen Press racks up another novel to manga title By
Chris Beveridge
October 10, 2010
Soulless
© Gail Carriger
Yen Press announced today that it will publish a manga adaptation of SOULLESS, Gail Carriger’s debut novel and the first in her Parasol Protectorate series. SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in a Victorian London full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. It stars Alexia Tarabotti, a very proper Victorian lady who is pulled into the world of supernatural politics after killing a vampire with her parasol at a party.
Yen will be doing direct adaptations of the first three books in the Parasol Protectorate series (
SOULLESS, CHANGELESS, BLAMELESS), all available from Orbit Books. Individual chapters of the series will make their debut next year in Yen Plus, Yen’s online manga anthology (
www.yenplus.com ). Print editions of the complete books will follow shortly thereafter.
Kurt Hassler, Publishing Director of Yen Press, says: “Everyone at Yen has been a huge fan of SOULLESS, to the point that we ran an excerpt of the book in one of the early issues of the Yen Plus magazine — something we’d never done before or since with prose that wasn’t originally published in Japan. We have no doubt that this project will become a favorite of both Gail’s existing fans and avid manga readers.”
Gail Carriger says that “as a longtime manga fan I am beyond excited to see what Yen does with the Parasol Protectorate. I have no doubt it will be brilliant cheeky fun.”
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I adore the novel. While I was reading it, I thought it would make a great graphic novel because its story is well suited for a visual format. So I'm very much looking forward to seeing what Yen Press produces.