Last Thursday, the cover for the first volume of KENT’s Daikaijuu Gaea-Tima was revealed on the official Twitter account for Kodansha‘s Gekkan Young Magazine, where the manga has been serialized since June 20, 2023. The volume will be available for sale in Japan on November 20, and the first chapter can be read for free in Japanese on Young Magazine‘s website. KENT is also known for the post-apocalyptic thriller COLOR/LESS, which was serialized on Leed‘s Comic Border from January 11, 2019, to November 11, 2022, and collected into seven volumes.
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Ten years ago, a gigantic monster appeared near the port town of Sukuba, causing huge waves that devastated whole districts. However, the monster mysteriously collapsed before reaching the coast. In a strange turn of fate, its decomposing body became a rich nutrient for the local sealife, bolstering the town’s economy in the following years. Now, Sukuba is a thriving fishing town that worships the monster as a deity of harvest, giving it the name Gaea-Tima; they even have it as a mascot, based on a doll made by Morinomiya Miyako, a girl who miraculously survived the flood while trying to rescue her mother. It ended up starting her career as a designer for more of them, though she only views it as something her 8-year-old self did to give shape to her trauma.
Then, the mystery deepens as a different monster appears near Sukuba, and Gaea-Tima appears for the first time in ten years to defeat it before disappearing again. Just what is Gaea-Tima? And where did it come from?
