The long-running battle action series Killing Bites is officially winding down. Publisher Hero's Inc. released the first part of the manga's definitive final chapter via its digital platform Comiplex, setting the stage for the resolution of its decade-spanning corporate underground death matches.
Written by Shinya Murata and illustrated by Kazasa Sumita, the series first serialized in Monthly Hero's back in March 2014 before transitioning alongside the rest of the imprint's roster to the web-based Comiplex platform. The narrative drops readers into visceral bloodsports orchestrated by Japanese megacorporations, where human-animal hybrids known as Therianthropes tear each other apart in lethal cage bouts for economic dominion.
By the time Yuya Nomoto discovers his so-called friends have duped him into a clandestine plot to kidnap a high school girl, they're already dead. Things go from bad to worse as Yuya is dragged into a cutthroat world of underground bloodsport known as Killing Bites, where Therianthropes — brutal gene-edited killing machines — fight to the death for rival, power-hungry forces who manipulate society from the shadows.
The Therianthrope Legacy
Spanning 27 collected tankobon volumes released through June, the franchise gained mainstream attention in winter 2018 when studio LIDEN FILMS adapted the premise into a 12-episode television anime series. Broadcast on MBS and TBS's late-night Animeism programming block, an unrated director's cut later debuted worldwide across digital streaming platforms.
With the opening segment of the finale now accessible on Comiplex, readers can witness the final showdowns of Hitomi Uzaki and her fellow beast-hybrids before Murata and Sumita draw the curtain on their blood-soaked arena.
