The October issue of Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age magazine announced on Monday that Shiosato's Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu) manga, based on Yomu Mishima's manga, will continue with new staff. The manga will be renamed Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu Ryūgaku-hen (Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs Study Abroad Arc), and will launch in the magazine soon. Tanuki Odoro will draw the new manga, Seishirō Matsuri will write the series, and FTops will produce it.
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Shiosato clarified on their X/Twitter account that the change in personnel was not due to any discord between Shiosato, Kadokawa, and Mishima, but instead because Shiosato had decided to “raise the white flag of surrender” to become the artist for future story development projects.
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© Jun Shiosato, Yomu Mishima, Monda, Kadokawa
Seven Seas published Shiosato's manga adaptation and describes the story:
Thanks to an unfortunate playthrough, a young published man named Leon is reincarnated into the world of an alternate universe otome game. Faced with an absurd scenario where men are nothing more than cattle serving the will of women, Leon has only one weapon – his knowledge of the dating sim genre – to survive the trials he faces and inspire a rebellion against the system!
Shiosato launched the manga on Kadokawa's Dra Dra Dragon Age manga website in October 2018, and it moved to Dra Dra Sharp# when that site launched in December 2018. The manga then moved to Dra Dra Flat♭ when that site launched in September 2020, and then moved again to Monthly Dragon Age in January 2022. Kadokawa will publish the manga's 13th compiled book volume on November 9.
Mishima launched the original novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Be Novelists) website in 2017 and ended it there in 2019. Micro Magazine's GC Novels imprint published the series in print with illustrations by Monda in Japan. Seven Seas published the light novel series in North America. The light novel series ended with the 13th volume, which was released in Japan on March 29. The final volume revealed that Mishima would start a new project in the fall.
Micro Magazine also published two volumes of a spinoff novel series titled Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of That Otome Game Is Tough for Us (Ano Otome Game wa Ore-tachi ni Kibishii Sekai Desu). Seven Seas is releasing a spinoff in English. That spinoff also inspired a manga adaptation by artist Renji Fukuhara that is airing on Dra Dra Flat♭.
The novel inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered in April 2022, and the anime is getting a second season. Crunchyroll streamed the first season as it aired and also aired the English dub.
Source: Dragon Age Monthly October issue
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