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A Luxury Cruise Turns Into a Fight for Survival in a New Manga-to-Movie Deal
Another Japanese horror property is making the jump to film. Los Angeles production company Tyrus Pictures has picked up the feature rights to Yu Satomi’s manga Noah of the Blood Sea (Kekkai no Noah) from Tokyo publisher Takeshobo and is aiming to start production in 2027. Deadline broke the news, with Michael Zelman and Hamid Mokhneche producing for Tyrus.
Satomi’s five-volume series, originally serialized on Takeshobo’s Web Comic Gamma between 2018 and 2021, follows a group of travelers who board a lavish cruise liner expecting a carefree getaway. Instead, fellow passengers start vanishing, and with nothing but open ocean in every direction, the trip turns into a desperate struggle to stay alive. The story mixes supernatural horror with psychological tension and survival-thriller stakes, and it has already found readers in translated editions across Europe, Latin America and Asia, with a Taiwanese edition in the works and an English-language release planned for North America.
Mokhneche, who negotiated the deal for Tyrus, said the book’s blend of a glamorous ocean liner, an uneasy atmosphere and its own supernatural mythology is what convinced him it could work as a horror film, and he promised to stay faithful to what makes the manga stand out. Takeshobo, whose catalog also includes the globally popular Made in Abyss, said it is eager to see how Satomi’s visual style translates to live action.
Based On: Noah of the Blood Sea (Kekkai no Noah) by Yu Satomi
Manga Publisher: Takeshobo
Production: Tyrus Pictures
Producers: Michael Zelman, Hamid Mokhneche
Status: In development, production targeted for 2027
Source: Reporting and confirmation via Deadline.
