Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's television series The Strain is spreading to Japan, where it will be greeted with illustrations by manga artist Kōji Matsumoto.

Crunchyroll reports that Matsumoto, creator of the vampire manga Higanjima, has drawn a series of illustrations to mark the Blu-ray and DVD release of The Strain in Japan. They'll appear next week in Kodansha's Weekly Young Jump magazine, alongside an interview with Matsumoto and an introduction to the TV show, which is based on del Toro and Hogan's vampire novels.

Published from 2002 to 2010 in Weekly Young Jump, Matsumoto's Higanjima inspired a pair of spinoffs, a film, a TV series and a video game.

A fan of Japanese pop culture, del Toro became "teary-eyed" earlier this month when he learned that Ultraman X features a planet named "Guillermo." The Pacific Rim director also revealed in September that he'd been collaborating with Junji Ito, the "undisputed master of horror in Japan," on the abruptly canceled Silent Hills video game.