A live-action series based on Junji Ito's horror manga Tomie was announced on Monday. The show will be exclusively available on the new streaming platform called Quibi that will launch on April 6, 2020 in North America. The episodes will have a duration of under ten minutes.

Synopsis
This is the story of what happens when a beautiful high school girl goes missing and pieces of her body are discovered scattered across a small town. But what starts out as a murder mystery turns into something even more horrific. (Source: Quibi)

Director Alexandre Aja (The 9th Life of Louis Drax) is helming the series that will be written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Walking Dead). Both will also serve as executive producers, with Hiroki Shirota (The Outsider) as co-producer.

Ito serialized Tomie in Asahi Sonorama's monthly Halloween magazine in 1987, before moving to Nemuki where it ended in 2000 with three compiled volumes. VIZ Media shipped the manga in North America in December 2016 as a hardcover omnibus.

Tomie was previously adapted into a series of Japanese live-action films that has eight instalments. A three-episode TV series was also broadcast in 1999.

In Winter 2018, the manga was animated by Studio Deen as part of a collection of Ito's past works. Two special episodes of Tomie were bundled with the second and third Blu-ray and DVD volumes of the collection.

Source: Comic Natalie