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Fairy Tail Anime Gets Action RPG App This Fall
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Fuji Games announced on Wednesday that it is producing a new smartphone action role-playing game based on Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail manga and anime. The game is slated for release this fall, and is titled Fairy Tail DiceMagic. The game's website is already accepting pre-registrations.
The game will include both the main characters of the manga as well as new characters. Shown in the visual below is Viseru, one of the game's original characters.
The game is based on the traditional Japanese dice game sugoroku. A mysterious form of magic called "DICE" suddenly appears in the land of Ishgar. The DICE takes away the liberty of all who fall under its fate. The Magic Council calls upon the guilds in Fiore to liberate Ishgar from DICE. Thus, Natsu and the other wizards embark on a new adventure.
Mashima's Fairy Tail manga series follows the adventures of world's most notorious wizard guild, Fairy Tail. The manga launched in 2006, and ended in July 2017.
The manga has inspired two television anime, two anime films, several original video anime projects, and spinoff manga. The manga is receiving a final television anime seires adaptation, that will premiere in October. Kodansha Comics publishes the original manga and a number of its spinoffs in North America.
Atsuo Ueda (Dr. Prisoner, Hajime Shachō Monogatari) launched the official sequel the original manga in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga app on July 25. Manga creator Kenshiro Sakamoto (Pitch-Black Ten) is drawing the Fairy Tail: Happy no Daibōken (Fairy Tail: Happy's Grand Adventure) spinoff manga that launched on July 26. Ushio Andō is providing the story and art for the Fairy Tail City Hero spinoff manga, which is slated to debut this fall.
Source: MoCa News
