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Language Japanese Media type Print (paperback) Country Japan | 3.9/5 Goodreads Published in English 2012 Originally published June 2007 Genre Science Fiction Published in english 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Hayakawa (Japanese)
Viz Media (English) Publication date 2007 (Hayakawa SF Series/JCollection)
2010 (paperback) Pages 282 (Hayakawa SF Series/JCollection)
431 (paperback) Similar Harmony, Subete ga F ni Naru, Shiki, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genocidal Organ (虐殺器官, Gyakusatsu Kikan) is the debut novel of Japanese science fiction writer Project Itoh. It was first published by Hayakawa Publishing in 2007 and later re-printed in 2010 in paperback form. A poll by the yearly SF magazine SF ga yomitai ranked Genocidal Organ as the number one domestic SF novel of the decade.
Contents
The English translation of Genocidal Organ, translated by Edwin Hawkes, was published in August 2012 by Haikasoru / Viz Media.
Title
There is a German death industrial band named Genocide Organ which released an album in Japan titled Genocide Organ in 2003. Itoh wrote in his blog that it is an unintended coincidence. The band is notorious for its use of war themes and terrorism imagery.
Plot
When Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear weapon, the leading democracies of the world transformed into surveillance states, while developing countries endured a multitude of genocides. Intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd must track down the man who seems to be responsible, American John Paul.
Animated film version
An animated film version, directed and written by Shukō Murase, and produced at Manglobe, was scheduled to be released on November 13, 2015. However, due to Manglobe's bankruptcy, the film's release had been postponed. It was later announced on November 13, 2015 that production on the film had resumed with the same staff under the newly created 'Geno Studio', with hopes to complete the film by the end of 2016. The film was released on February 3, 2017. Prior to the film's theatrical screening in Japan, the first fifteen minutes were shown on October 31, 2016 at the 2016 Tokyo International Film Festival.