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Wizardry Variants Daphne RPG Gets Manga on October 15
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Drecom announced on Monday that the Wizardry Variants Daphne 3D dungeon role-playing game will get a manga adaptation titled Wizardry Variants Daphne ~Na mo Naki Saigo no Bōken~ (Wizardry Variants Daphne ~The Nameless Final Adventure~). The manga will launch on October 15 on Drecom's DRE Comics manga website. Noriyuki Fujisawa (also known as Mikado Muramasa) is drawing the manga, Toshikiri Hamamura is writing the scripts, and Drecom is credited for the original story.
Drecom describes the manga's story:
The story of adventurers challenging the Abyss will be told from the perspective of a new protagonist—
The manga adaptation is part of the Wizardry RPG franchise's 44th anniversary this year.
Drecom also announced on Monday that September 15 has been established and certified by the unofficial Japan Anniversary Association as "Wizardry Day" to celebrate the franchise. The first Wizardry game shipped in mid-September of 1981.
Other projects for the Wizardry anniversary include signed art prints and an art book by Jun Suemi, and a "Wizardry" Special Book that comes with a pouch.
Wizardry Variants Daphne, the franchise's latest release, launched in October 2024 for iOS and Android in Japanese and English. Drecom originally announced the game under the tentative title Wizardry VA.
Wizardry is an ongoing franchise that has inspired many RPGs in the West and Japan. The franchise remains consistently popular among Japanese players, with the nation's Wizardry spin-offs outnumbering the primary games in the series. Japanese video game developer Drecom acquired copyrights and domestic and foreign trademarks for the game series in October 2020.
The late Andrew C. Greenberg and AnimEigo co-founder Robert Woodhead co-created the original Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord game in 1981. Digital Eclipse released a 3D remake of the game in May 2024. The remake game's composer Winifred Phillips won the "Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media" award at this year's 67th Grammy Awards.
The Wizardry franchise inspired an OVA in 1991.
Source: Drecom via Hachima Kikō
