Katsutoshi Murase will launch a new manga titled
Red List: Zetsumetsu Shinkaron (Red List: Extinction Evolutionary Theory) on the service on January 27. The manga is based on Tadashi Anjо̄ s novel of the same name, which shipped in 2018 under the title
Red List and then shipped again in 2020 under the
Red List: Zetsumetsu Shinkaron title.
The original novel takes place in Tokyo, where a mysterious pandemic has broken out and has caused deaths. Kōki is a staff member at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and he works together with an infectious disease specialist professor to find the cause of the outbreak, despite the government making one mistake after another, and Kōki s superiors dodging responsibility. In addition, a series of murders is occurring in Tokyo s subways.