Shogakukan announced on Thursday that manga artist Hirō Nakamichi will launch a manga adaptation of Masato Uesugi and Noriaki Watanabe’s game Kaiju on the Earth: Vulcanus on Shogakukan’s Sunday Webry platform on December 24.
Uesugi, the original game’s designer, and Watanabe, the director, collaborated on the board game in which teams of three players command a Japanese government crisis management team to take on a giant kaiju. is heading to Tokyo. Players coordinate evacuations, respond to fires, deploy the JSDF, and research kaiju.
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Although there is an option to attack the kaiju directly, the player must balance research and disaster management. The more research one does, the easier it becomes to defeat the kaiju. Arclight and Drosselmeyer & Co. published the first game in December 2019, followed by Kaiju on the Earth: Leviath in July 2020 and Kaiju on the Earth: Yggdrasus in September 2021
Nakamichi, known for his After School Dice Club (Hōkago Saikoro Club) manga serialized in Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen magazine Sunday from March 2013 to June 2021, will direct the new adaptation. The manga revolves around Aya, who after moving to Kyoto and enrolling in an all-girls high school, befriends her reserved classmate Miki.
Their exploration of similar games begins when committee chairman Midori introduces them to a similar game store called “Saikoro Club”. Aya and Miki embark on a journey to find fun in the realm of analog games.
If you like “After School Dice Club” and its combination of friendship, strategy and tabletop gaming, you might also appreciate “Hikaru Doesn’t Go.”Both series go delve into the game world, cultivating camaraderie between the characters as they explore the complexities and joys of their respective game worlds. “Hikaru no Go” focuses on the ancient board game Go, delivering an engaging story with strategic depth that mirrors the engaging storytelling found in “After School Dice Club.”
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The After School Dice Club manga series also launched a television anime in October 2019, which Funimation streamed in both Japanese and English.
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Source | Shogakukan