New hardcover omnibus editions feature 4 volumes in each book
Dark Horse Manga announced on Friday that it will release writer Garon Tsuchiya and artist Nobuaki Minegishi‘s Oldboy manga in a two-volume deluxe edition in English. The first volume of the deluxe edition containing the first four volumes of the manga will launch on January 6.
The deluxe edition’s second volume will contain volumes five through eight and release on March 24. The new hardcover editions will feature feature covers with metallic silver foil paper and include a ribbon bookmark. Both omnibus volumes will have 848 pages and will retail at US$69.99 each. The new editions will be available in comic book shops and are also available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Dark Horse describes the first volume:
Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn’t know who. For ten years, he has been confined to a private prison. He doesn’t know why. For ten years, his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. Suddenly, one day, his incarceration ends without explanation. Sedated and dumped in a park, Shinichi Goto awakens—free to reclaim what’s left of his life—and what’s left is revenge.
Dark Horse describes the second volume:
Goto relentlessly marches forward to uncover the identity of the man who imprisoned him for ten years—seemingly for no reason. But Goto’s nemesis has lured him into a trap. Is allowing Goto the opportunity to enact his revenge just another part of his twisted plan? As he struggles to find the motive behind the punishment he endured, Goto receives clues suggesting a connection to a time long forgotten from his adolescence. Could all his torment have been the result of a schoolyard grudge? The cruel game has only just begun.
Michael David Thomas and Kathryn Renta are editing the new edition and Kumar Sivasubramanian is translating it.
The manga won Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Japan at the 2007 Eisner Awards.
The manga ran in Futabasha‘s Weekly Manga Action magazine from 1996 to 1998. The eighth compiled volume of the manga shipped in October 1998. Dark Horse Comics first released the manga in English in 2006-2007.
Chan-wook Park directed a live-action film loosely based on Tsuchiya and Minegishi’s manga in November 2003. An American remake of the film by Spike Lee opened in November 2013.
Park announced in April 2024 that he is developing a live-action English series based on his film adaptation.
Source: Press release
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