LINE have announced details of their Manga adaptation of Claudia Gray’s Lost Stars young person’s novel.
The LINE Manga app revealed on Tuesday that it will release a manga adaptation of Claudia Gray’s Lost Stars novel. Yūsaku Komiyama (Avengers: Zombies Assemble, Ixion Saga) is drawing the manga. The series will debut for free in the app on May 4, and a new chapter will debut every other Thursday. This is the time Gray’s story will be available in Japanese.
Also announced was a competition to adapt parts of Heir to the Jedi and Lords of the Sith.
The app also revealed that it will hold the LINE Manga Star Wars Indies Award 2017 competition to create manga adaptations of the first chapters of Kevin Hearne’s Heir to the Jedi and Paul S. Kemp’s Lords of the Sith novels.
The campaign is part of the app’s LINE Manga Indies program that allows users to submit original manga. The app will accept submissions of at least 12 pages from May 4 to August 31.
Lucasfilm and the competition’s selection committee will nominate a list of submitted manga. The app’s users will vote for the list of nominees. Lucasfilm and the LINE Manga editorial department will award the Grand Prix award and Lucasfilm Award. The list of nominated works will be announced on October 27, and the voting period will run from October 27 to November 9. The results will be announced on December 1.
The app will release the Grand Prix winner’s manga, and the winner will also have their manga published in a physical book. The winner will also get to tour Lucasfilm Studios in San Francisco and receive a 1,000,000-yen (about US$9,000) monetary prize. The Lucasfilm Award winner will receive a custom X-Wing pilot helmet, and the other nominated works will receive a Star Wars Sharbo X pen.
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