This special underground theater show here in Bangkok, Thailand,
that we have been bringing to you ladies and gentlemen, is finally drawing to a close.
Finally, tonight, in the year 2619, the strongest man on Earth...
oh, I beg your pardon.
The strongest man under the Earth shall be crowned.
So shit like this actually exists?
I've seen it tons of times in comics.
It might happen a lot in comics,
but in reality, there are CEOs and oil tycoons that make millions, even billions a month.
The people here are disgustingly wealthy.
When these people get together,
stopping time is still impossible,
but getting people to kill each other for show is easy in comparison.
So they're not dead yet?
Not yet.
First, in the blue corner, is this man!
The supernova twenty-something with a bit of a shady past.
Hi-za-ma-ru!
Hizamaru Akari!
Standing 177cm tall and weighing in at 91 kilograms!
He's a Japanese karate master!
So that's him...
His dear childhood sweetheart from the orphanage
has been struck by some terrible illness!
Again with this crap?
Her only hope is an organ transplant!
Hizamaru wants the prize money for her, no matter the cost!
Yeah!
Damn right! You got that, you rich bastards?!
All this effort just to get some pussy, good job!
But his opponent in the final round is a strong one.
The undefeated king of this tournament...
Brian Chaomy, age 14!
Standing 251cm tall and weighing in at 342 kilograms!
An American who practices no martial art!
A natural-born fighter.
What the fuck is this?!
Brian here's an omnivore that's been on a strict diet of human flesh!
So these assholes
never had any intention of letting me win.
Damn it!
Yuriko! I'm coming to save you now!
Hey, you in the cheap seats!
Get ready!
I'm gonna blow your minds!
There's no way this is gonna work, but...
You know, too,
right?
Go home!
Is watching me waste away that...
amusing?!
Coming to visit me day after day?!
You...
Who the hell do you think you are?!
You're just a monster!
Just go home!
This is fucked.
We came here to see this?
If our research is correct,
the only abnormal thing here is Hizamaru Akari.
Ah, Akari...
I said something really terrible last week.
Well, maybe it was perfect timing.
Eh?
If I keep holding onto something so childish,
I'll look out of place around the other college students.
We found one.
We found a possible donor.
You're kidding...
It's true. They're at a hospital in another country.
Now picture it, Yuriko. You're almost there.
What do you want to do when you're better?
I want to eat ramen.
Got it. Let's do it.
I want to go snowboarding.
Yeah, I can't wait until winter.
I want to try alcohol.
Sure, just don't drink too much.
I want to go to Space Land.
Yeah, I'm sure it's not too crowded right now.
And... and... and...
Why? Why are you so nice, Akari?
Of course I am.
I... You're the one who gave me my kindness.
Ever since that day.
I lo—
You're very precious to me.
Because you're my friend.
Huh? He got up...
An old-fashioned knock out!
But what's this?
Wh-What...
Could this be...?
I can't believe it...
H-Hizamaru Akari...
turned it around and won!
So there was one more.
A child that was born after the surgery...
What?!
You promised! It was a promise!
S-Stop...
Operate on Yuriko!
W-We sold the girl...
Wha— To who?!
You bastard...
Bring Yuriko back right n—
She's dead.
We did what we could, but the day before yesterday...
Don't
bullshit me!
These people never intended to find a donor for you.
It was a setup.
By the time we heard about her
and went to get her, it was already too late.
I'm sorry we didn't make it in time.
What... the hell...
Give her back.
Give her back...
Gi...
Give her back!
Akari.
Would you like to save children that have the same disease as her?
Sorry for the late introduction.
I'm the commanding officer
of the United Nations Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars Exploration Team,
Komachi Shokichi.
And I'm the second in command, Michelle K. Davis.
U-NASA?
That's right.
The disease that took the life of your childhood friend
is no ordinary infectious disease.
It's a virus that came from outer space.
The virus will continue to spread, and millions will die.
In order to stop that, in two years
we will fly to Mars.
Mars?
We need you.
We need your strength,
and that raw rage you have inside you.
My friend died on Mars.
Anyone else could only comfort you for the pain you're feeling.
However, people like us, who have the same piercing rage boiling inside us...
We've been bound by a tie stronger than blood,
and become a swarm.
Let's go.
I loved you,
Yuri.
I really did.
I...
Man...
I wonder why...
I'm so mad at everything.
Sorry, Shelly. You had some spare sunglasses, right?
Can I borrow them?
Come on, hurry!
I'm sorry I wasn't thinking and called you that!
I don't care.
You can call me that.
Looks like you've finally woken up.
Ah.
U-Um... Shelly?
Don't mess with me. I'm older than you.
S-Sorry.
If you're going to insist on calling me that, you'll have to marry me first.
Thanks.
Since it's already noon, I must have been asleep a full day.
It's been a week.
Eh?
You're kidding!
Why would I lie?
There's a tube in your dick, isn't there?
Eh?
Uh...!
I put that in there.
I'm kidding, you idiot.
It just means the surgery you had was that rough.
It's to force the human body to be strong enough to survive in Mars' atmosphere.
We knew that your surgery would be a success, though.
You already had most of what the surgery would usually involve from your parent.
Just like I did.
Then... what's the success rate for a normal human being?
Thirty...
...six percent?
Yeah. It's definitely not a high survival rate.
It's not 3.6%?
Then that's pretty high!
No, over half of them die.
Still, that's better odds than going back home
and getting a cushy government job and pension without getting killed.
You're really slow on the uptake, aren't you?
But you agree, don't you, Sheila?
Well, I guess it's a much higher chance than living in Grande Mexico.
But why do we need to modify our bodies to go to Mars?
If the air is just thin up there, we have masks and space suits.
We'll explain that eventually.
Adolf.
Captain Komachi.
There you are.
You were here?
Who's that?
Someone who wants the surgery.
I'm Eva Frost.
Oh, so she's in the same boat as these guys.
I'm Sheila Levitt.
I'm Marcos.
Nice to—
I'm Alex!
Hey!
You guys...
Hey, now.
This is Adolf.
He's an executive staff member from the German division.
He's going to be your superior.
Oh, you didn't have to introduce me.
I have no intention of remembering them.
What did you say?!
So, you are the last four to undergo the surgery...
Statistically, one or two of you will die.
Well, pray that it happens while you're still under.
What kind of shit are you talking?
Hey, you should watch how you say—
I'm just telling them the truth.
Captain, I'll leave that with you.
You all right? Here.
Uh, no, I can get up myself.
Well... this is fine.
Let's go, Akari.
Also...
I'll let it slide this time,
but if you slip during training or on a mission
and look anywhere below my glasses, I'll kick your ass.
Yes ma'am.
Why aren't you all scared?
I mean, 60% die...
Not only does she look a bit unfortunate, but she's super negative.
Yeah, she's negative boobies.
Oh?
Take a look, Eva.
That guy over there looks like he had the surgery,
and he's totally fine.
This is what 40% looks like!
The surgery was no biggie, was it?
Eh? Yeah...
But I had a higher success rate due to my genetics...
Oh, here we go. He's one of those guys.
What? You're trying to say you're better than us?
Read the mood, man.
Can I punch them?
Sure, just go easy on them.
Hey, hey, hey...
What's the matter, Marcos?
I'm sorry, they're idiots.
They've been like this since we were kids.
I-It's okay.
I'm envious that you know others.
I'm... alone, so...
Now you can't fight back!
You're not alone now, Ms. Eva.
Y-You guys...
Hey! That's not fair!
Here, let me help.
Let's go for a walk, a walk.
You don't have to be so formal.
S-Stop... Michelle!
Eva's fine.
Oh, okay.
We did things a bit backwards in Akari's case,
but for the rest of you I'll be explaining the mission before your surgeries.
This is the alien virus, otherwise known as the AE virus.
This came from Mars?
That's right.
The mortality rate's 100%.
However, we're unable to cultivate the virus here on Earth.
So we're going to Mars,
where we'll investigate the air, sand, water, and moss,
leave no stone unturned,
and bring back samples if we have to.
That is our mission.
If we're successful, we will be able to eliminate the virus
and save humanity from extinction.
But there's just one problem.
All of the unmanned probes we've sent for samples have failed to come back.
That's because...
a certain organism always gets in the way.
This is Mars' giant cockroach, the Terraformar.
They've evolved and adapted to Mars' harsh environment over the last five hundred years.
Forty-two years ago the six members of the Bugs 1 mission,
and twenty years ago the thirteen members of the Bugs 2 mission, were killed by them.
You mean, these giant cockroaches... eat people?
If you found a cockroach in your kitchen, would you pick it up and eat it?
Probably not.
But you'd kill it.
Thinking about it, you don't even know why you'd kill it.
But you'd kill it with everything you've got, right?
That's how it is.
This is
the war between man and bug over who will continue to exist as a species.
The ones who lose...
are the vermin.
Christian Era 2620 March 4th
100 Members
The Large-Scale Spaceship Annex 1
Will Leave Earth
It's too late now
to wish yourself back to yesterday
Now you have to struggle even though it might be in vain
I'm not really holding on to my naive dreams anymore
Together we saw what the world is really like
That doesn't mean there isn't a reason to stay alive
Don't stop until you die, whatever the pain
You don't want to have regrets
Being alive is painful
Your wounds hurt
We all embrace the flame of life
until only our will is left behind
My body will rot away,
and even my corpse will turn to dust,
but what remains
is the name undying
That's why I will shoulder my pain
Mars.
The fourth planet of the Solar System.
The original average temperature is -53 degrees
and the atmospheric pressure is 0.06.
In order to make this frigid planet an environment where humans could live,
in the 21st century two kinds of life forms
were sent to the planet ahead of the humans.
First, a special kind of algae,
and second, an insect with a powerful ability to breed.
The cockroach.