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7th Prince's Kenkyo na Circle, Killing Bites' Shinya Murata, Dragons Rioting's Tsuyoshi Watanabe Collaborate on New Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The manga's story begins with a man who works in an exploitative company, and whose only joy in life is playing the hack-and-slash game "Brave of Kingdom" when he gets home from work. But one day, when playing the game, he sees something strange, and the next thing he knows, he is inside the world of the game, with the familiar adjutant character Selina before him in her familiar uniform. He has transformed into the game's evil general Zeorg, with his muscular build and full beard, along with his doomed destiny to be mowed down by the game's hero, along with the rest of the game's mooks. Using his survival skills in his exploitative workplace, and his knowledge of the game, Zeorg is determined to avoid a bad ending.
Kenkyo na Circle debuted the I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability (Tensei Shitara Dainana Ōji Datta no de, Kimamani Majutsu o Kiwamemasu) story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become Novelists) website in October 2019. Kodansha began publishing the light novels with illustrations by Meru in July 2020. The light novels' 10th volume shipped in Japan on July 2. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga adaptation. The story is inspiring a television anime that premiered in April 2024. A second season premiered on July earlier this year.
Murata and Kazasa Sumita launched the Killing Bites manga in Monthly Hero's in March 2017, although it now runs on the Comiplex website. Hero's Inc. published the manga's 25th compiled book volume on June 30, and will publish the 26th volume on January 29. The television anime adaptation premiered on the Animeism programming block on MBS and TBS in January 2018. The anime's unaired "director's cut" streamed worldwide on Amazon Prime Video. The anime had 12 episodes. Murata and Sumita launched the Saikyō Skill "Inochigoi" de Kuyashii kedo Musō Shichau Moto Ōsama no Sekai Seifuku Katsudō (The Activities of the Former Demon King Whose Strongest Skill is the Embarassing 'Begging for Her Life' and Yet She Will Use it to Run Wild and Conquer the World) on Comiplex in June 2023.
Watanabe previously drew the Dragon's Rioting manga, which ran in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dragon Age magazine from 2012 to 2016. Kadokawa published nine compiled book volumes for the manga. Yen Press published all nine volumes in English.
Source: Comiplex
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