Get Ready for URBANCE: The Graphic Novel Series by Joël Dos Reis Viegas
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URBANCE is a kinetic fusion of urban cyberpunk, gender‑charged tension, and high‑style action, adapted by Joël Dos Reis Viegas from his cult‑favorite animated pilot, expanded into a full-length graphic novel saga. It’s a story about rebellion, identity, and the dangerous power of connection in a world designed to keep the population divided.
Based on the hit animated short by Steambot Studios and Yapiko Anime animated by Hiroshi Shimizu (Princess Mononoke, Lupin III, Space Dandy, Blade Runner: Black Out). 880+ pages of bio-punk action! This campaign will be filled with exclusives!
URBANCE is a Bio-punk ROMEO & JULIET in the style of AEON FLUX in a neon‑lit JET SET RADIO future city.
A mysterious virus has infected every human at birth, making intimate contact between the sexes instantly fatal. To survive, society enforces absolute segregation: boys and girls are raised apart, conditioned to fear, even hate, one another. A colossal wall cuts the city in two, and entire youth cultures have evolved in isolation, fueled by tribal identity, coded fashion, and explosive street‑clan rivalries.
But the system is cracking.
A new underground drug, N‑Dorphin, begins circulating through the streets, a substance rumored to bypass the virus’s lethal effects. Its emergence destabilizes the fragile balance of power in Neopolis, igniting turf wars and paranoia as factions scramble to control it.
Caught in the crossfire are Kenzell and Lesya, two young dissidents from opposite sides of the divide. When a violent fate forces them together, they uncover a conspiracy far bigger than any clan feud. Their forbidden alliance becomes a spark in a city ready to explode, pushing them into a brutal struggle against the pillars of power Neopolis is built on… and the truth behind the virus that keeps its people apart.
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