US cover for Sankarea Vol.1= "Guro"

I remember getting into manga during my 7th grade year of middle school. That was roughly 10 years ago (wow! I've been a full blown otaku for a decade now) when most manga released officially in English could be put into either the "shojo" or "shonen" category. Any sub-genres were rare or hard to find in bookstores (there were a few such as SaiKano). Now a days, stuff like Flowers of Evil, Oreimo and now Sankarea are very common and almost shadow the innocent manga that filled American shelves a few years ago. This is mainly thanks to the company Vertical who has been releasing a lot of the more mature, border-lining guro series- but now it seems Kodansha (who's best known for releasing Tsubasa and XXXholic) has jumped onto the guro train with the zombie love story Sankarea!

The English release of volume one is still a few months away (June 2013) but the cover has been released to some shock. This version is much more guro than the original Japanese cover. I haven't read any of this manga yet, so I can't make a judgement call on if the American cover is more accurate to the manga than the Japanese one... but based on what the series is about maybe the new cover will help is sell since America seems to LOVE ZOMBIES?

Anyways, the first volume will be avialable in June for $10.99.

[Source: Kodansha; Sankaku Complex]