Yuya Kanzaki, known for Ouroboros (Ouroboros – Keisatsu o Sabaku wa Ware ni Ari) and Impossibility Defense (Funouhan), has announced that his new series is going to be a spin-off of BTOOOM!, with the title BTOOOM! U-18. The announcement was made in Shinchosha’s Monthly Comic@Bunch‘s April issue, which came out on 21 February 2018.

Junya Inoue’s BTOOOM! is a survival action story that depicts people involved in a murder game using high-performance bombs. BTOOOM! is being serialized in Monthly Comic@Bunch and will release its final chapter in the magazine’s May issue on 20 March 2018. Kanzaki’s BTOOOM! U-18 will act as a prologue to the original series and will begin in the same issue.

This month’s Monthly Comic@Bunch comes with details of Michitsune Nakajima’s Gunka no Baltzar‘s drama CD, which will be sold together with Vol.11 as a limited edition. The cast has also been announced: Kisho Taniyama is to play Baltzar, Shinichiro Miki is to play Liebknecht, Wataru Hatano is to play August, Ayahi Takagaki is to play Helmut, Daiki Yamashita is to play Dieter, Satoru Murakami is to play Paul, Yoshitaka Yamaya is to play Marcel, and Junji Tachibana is to play Thomas’s role.

source: https://natalie.mu/comic/news/270491
translator: nifa