Norihiro Nagi’s dark fantasy manga, Claymore, is set to receive a live-action series adaptation.

CBS Studios and Propagate Content are teaming up with actor and producer Masi Oka, in partnership with Shueisha, the original publisher of the manga.

Oka had previously co-produced Netflix’s Death Note live-action adaptation.

The collaboration will see Oka serving as an executive producer alongside Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Rodney Ferrell from Propagate Content.

While more details are yet to be revealed about the adaptation, the team behind it hopes to retain the action and complex moral dilemmas of the source material. They are currently searching for a writer.

Claymore is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi. It debuted in Shueisha’s shonen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump in June 2001, where it continued until the magazine was shut down in June 2007.

The series was transferred to the newly launched Jump Square,...