Kaiju on the Earth: Vulcanus manga launches on December 24
Shogakukan revealed on Thursday that manga creator Hirō Nakamichi will launch a manga based on Masato Uesugi and Noriaki Watanabe’s Kaiju on the Earth: Vulcanus. Shogakukan’s Sunday Webry website on December 24.
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Uesugi was the game designer for the original game and Watanabe was the director. In the board game, teams of up to three players take control of a Japanese government crisis team attempting to deal with the destructive advance of a giant kaiju toward Tokyo. Players must evacuate citizens, respond to fires, deploy the JSDF, and research kaiju. The player can launch an attack on the kaiju to defeat them, but the more the player researches, the easier the kaiju are to defeat. Players must balance research with disaster management, while also deciding when to respond directly to the kaiju.
Arclight and Drosselmeyer & Co. published the first game, Kaiju on Earth: Vulcanus, in December 2019. The second game Kaiju on Earth: Leviath launched in July 2020, and the third game Kaiju on Earth: Yggdrasus launched in September 2021.
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Nakamichi launched the After School Dice Club (Hōkago Saikoro Club) manga in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in March 2013 and ended it in June 2021. Shogakukan published the manga’s 19th and final compiled volume on July 2021. Sugorokuya is credited as a collaborator on the manga.
The manga focuses on Aya, who moves away and begins attending an all-girls high school in Kyoto. Her first friend is her reserved classmate Miki. One day, after school, the committee chairwoman Midori took them both to a store specializing in similar games called”Dice Club”. There, they started playing a game of German chess without thinking. Thus begins Aya and Miki’s journey to find joy through the world of analog games.
The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in Japan in October 2019. Funimation aired the anime when it aired in Japan, and it also aired an English dub.
Source: Shogakukan