Daiyonkyokai Releases Free ARG Set In LaLa Editorial Department
Daiyonkyokai builds its games into places people already go, and putting this one inside a magazine's 50th anniversary makes the boundary between the fiction and the publisher's own history harder to see.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
Daiyonkyokai has released 'Their Beginning,' a free everyday erosion game set in the editorial department of the shoujo manga magazine LaLa, which marks its 50th anniversary. Players follow Serizawa, a rookie manga artist, and Shinojima, a LaLa editor, tracing why the two fell out and why Serizawa left the public stage, using Serizawa's chat screen. Cast announced for the manga 'Makuake' includes Saori Hayami and Nobuhiko Okamoto.
The game runs without a console or an app. Players reach Serizawa's chat screen directly, and the story unfolds from there: a rookie shoujo manga artist, an editor named Shinojima, and the unpublished work they were both chasing before the relationship broke.
Mysterious posters have appeared at 10 Animate stores nationwide. The storyboard script of the manga 'Makuake' runs in the November issue of LaLa, released on September 24. Saori Hayami voices Liz, Nobuhiko Okamoto voices Lenny, and Ryoko Maekawa handles narration.
Daiyonkyokai previously made 'Hito no Saifu' and 'Kagami no Tokushu Shounen Kousei Shisetsu.'
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