Himitsu - Top Secret Season 0 Live-Action Series Confirmed

© Hakusensha, Reiko Shimizu

The December issue of Hakusensha's Melody magazine confirmed the live-action series of Reiko Shimizu's Himitsu Season 0 (Himitsu - The Top Secret season 0) manga on Monday. The magazine will reveal more details about the series in its February 2025 issue on December 26. In addition, the manga will feature on the front cover of the magazine's next issue, and will also have a color opening page for the serialized chapter.

The manga is a spinoff series to Shimizu's Himitsu - Top Secret philosophical science fiction suspense manga.

The Himitsu Season 0 manga begins by telling the story of the agent Maki prior to the events of the original series. Shimizu debuted the ongoing manga in October 2012, and Hakusensha shipped the manga's 10th compiled book volume in Japan in July 2021. The manga went on hiatus in August 2021 so that the creator could prepare for a new arc, and it returned after two years in October 2023.

The original Himitsu - Top Secret manga takes place in Japan five decades from now. Brain scanners have been perfected to the point that the government can retrieve up to five years' worth of memories from people's minds — even if they are dead. As they delve into people's minds to solve crimes, the investigators of the National Research Institute of Police Science's 9th Forensics Laboratory must weigh the ethical choices in the ultimate invasion of privacy.

The original Himitsu - Top Secret manga inspired the Top Secret ~The Revelation~ television anime by Madhouse in 2008. It also inspired a live-action film in August 2016.

Source: Comic Natalie