Dragon Quest Monsters 4 Ties In With Zannen na Ikimono Jiten for Monster Ecology Posts
The collaboration puts a best-selling nonfiction book brand in front of Dragon Quest Monsters 4 buyers a month before launch, with the monster write-ups running on the game's own PR account rather than as paid media.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, Inside.
Takahashi Shoten's Zannen na Ikimono Jiten series and Dragon Quest Monsters 4: Bianca and Flora of the Withered Tree Kingdom are collaborating. Under the title Zannen na Mamono Jiten, posts introducing the slightly disappointing ecology of the game's monsters began October 23 on the official Dragon Quest PR X account. The book series has surpassed 5.55 million cumulative copies in print. The game releases December 3 on Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and December 4 on Steam.
The format is borrowed directly from the books. Each entry takes one monster from Bianca and Flora of the Withered Tree Kingdom and describes the habits that make it clumsy or underwhelming, in the same tone the series uses for real animals. The first post went out October 23, and more are scheduled to follow on social media.
The book line, published by Takahashi Shoten, has passed 5.55 million copies in print, with volumes one through eleven on sale. Square Enix publishes the game, which arrives December 3 on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and December 4 on Steam.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.