The Manga Works is an adventure developed by Kairosoft, released 29 April 2016 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What The Manga Works is
The Manga Works is an adventure game developed by Kairosoft and released in 2016. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It's the manga artist experience you've been waiting for! Create a manga masterpiece and draw your way into the nation's heart. Start out as a fledgling manga artist in a small and empty room... Armed with only a single pen, draw the best manga you can and march proudly to the publishers to show off your work. Ideas are the lifeblood of a manga artist. Go out in search of inspiration and gather plot points, then stuff your manga full of creativity. Accumulate experience points and use them to train up your drawing, storytelling, and other skills. When you think you've created a great one-shot, take it to a publisher! If you manage to make the "editor from hell" smile, it might just be the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
The Manga Works launched on 29 April 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016) and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016), Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.
Official trailer
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