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Kengan Ashura Smartphone Game Launches on June 12
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official Twitter account for the Kengan Ultimate Battle smartphone game announced on Thursday that the game will launch in Japan on June 12. The game's official website also began streaming a promotional video.
The "muscle training battle RPG" will be free to play, with optional in-game purchases.
In Shogakukan and CYBIRD's game, players become the president of a business in the world of Yabako Sandrovich and Daromeon's Kengan Ashura manga. Players then scout combatants to take part in fighting matches that represent the business.
In the manga's story, businesses and merchants wager large sums of money to hire combatants for unarmed hand-to-hand fighting matches. The winner takes all in these Kengan competitions that originated during the Edo period. Merchants use the fights as a means to resolve disputes with each other.
The strong and mysterious Ōma Tokita, whose nickname is Ashura, enters these matches. Nogi Group president Hideki Nogi keeps his ambitions to himself when he meets Ashura. Events begin to swirl around the Kengan fights as Ashura enters the fray.
An anime adaptation will premiere on Netflix globally on July 31. The anime had its world premiere at Anime Expo last July. The manga won a fan voting contest in 2015 to receive the adaptation.
Sources: Kengan Ultimate Battle's website and Twitter account, Comic Natalie
