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SEGA, NextNinja to Launch New Smartphone Game Based on Gintama Manga
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The digital version of this year's 49th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that SEGA and NextNinja will launch a new smartphone game based on Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga. The announcement teased the game as a "chibi character battle."
Bandai Namco Entertainment launched the Gintama Rumble (Gintama Ranbu) game for the PlayStation Vita in 2018. Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia released the game in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia with English subtitles on the same day as Japan.
Sorachi's original manga has also inspired previous games for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, and PlayStation Portable.
Sorachi's original "science-fiction period-drama comedy" manga began in 2003 and ended in June 2019 with over 55 million copies in circulation. The manga has inspired several television anime series with 367 total episodes, as well as three previous anime films. The latest anime series premiered in July 2018. The manga has also inspired various original video anime (OVA), event anime, two live-action films, and two live-action net spinoffs. Viz Media published the manga's first 23 volumes in English.
The anime adaptation of the manga's spinoff novel series titled GINTAMA - Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class (3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei) by Tomohito Ōsaki debuted on October 6.
Source: Weekly Shonen Jump digital issue 49
