Crueler Than Dead features fast paced and extremely graphic violence concealing none of the absolute horror…and requiring a strong heart and stomach! No one knows where it started…but when the world finally realized what was going on, it was already too late. When Maki Akagi wakes up in a lab full of corpses, she learns from a dying soldier that she is the result of a last-ditch experiment to cure humans of a virus turning them into zombies. Accompanied by a young boy who also miraculously escaped, she will have to try to get to the very center of a devastated Tokyo filled with bloodthirsty monsters. The dome located there contains the last survivors of mankind. And humanity's very survival depends solely on a few drops of this miraculous vaccine… Inspired by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), The Walking Dead, Romero classics, and new zombie films like 28 Days Later, Crueler Than Dead delights in the meticulous gory details of decomposed flesh, with a wicked and hungry eye...evoking a modern vision of a zombie world that is terrifying, tension filled and unsettling! (Source: INKR)

The May issue of Akita Shoten's Bessatsu Shounen Champion magazine revealed on Monday that Spanish artist Kenny Ruiz (Telémaco, Dos Espadas) will launch a new manga in collaboration with Tezuka Productions based on various characters of Osamu Tezuka's manga. In the manga's story, a robot alliance rules over 90% of the universe. The knight Sapphire is troubled over the pain of non-robots, and she makes a decision, for a new future. (Source: Anime News Network)

Imagine a world where what you write comes to life... What would you do if the paper, non-existent for more than two hundred years, reappeared in the hands of the greatest criminal of the century? Desperate situations require desperate measures. City Hall police will have no choice but to enlist the services of two of the best pens in all of London: Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle! *Source: City Hall website, translated* *Note: include one epilogue.*

After losing her mother to a terrible illness, Yuki, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, thought she would be left all alone in the world. But she was wrong. Before passing away, her mother gave her a photograph of a boy Yuki had never seen before and told her that he was the brother she had never met. By a twist of fate, Yuki spots a boy who looks exactly like the one in the photo her mother gave her, participating in a video game development contest in Spain. So she wastes no time and asks Enishi, her childhood friend who was studying to become a programmer, to help her out so they can enter the contest together. The problem is that Yuki knows nothing about video games, and that starting a brotherly relationship with someone she doesn’t know at all won’t be easy. *Source: Blanca Mira website, translated*

Max Volta, leader of a team of professional players, launches an assault on the Capcom Pro Tour, one of the major international competitions for Street Fighter V. Everything does not happen as expected for the arrogant and overconfident Max... even after being named top pick to win the tournament, he suffers a crushing defeat. Max takes it out on his friends, which leads to his sponsors pulling out. He is afraid his career is over. But then the mysterious Inés offers to return to the basics of “VS fighting” and put together a team capable of beating the Japanese god of fighting games...and which will cause a storm in the world of professional gaming. Source: Ablaze

From Del Rey: Hana just doesn't fit in. At school, she feels like the invisible girl. And at home, she avoids her parents' arguments by retreating to her bedroom, where she spends hours online, playing the part of various cool, smart, sexy, and popular alteregos, and kicks back with her all-time idol and very best (though only in her imagination) friend, rebel rocker Avril Lavigne. One night she runs across a mysterious website called Make5Wishes.com. Somehow, she can’t click away - and before she knows it, she’s ordered a package guaranteed to make dreams come true. But will it end up being a Pandora's box?