Rafal Jaki and Machine Gamu Launch Brain Alive Manga
Brain Alive marks the second collaboration between Jaki and Machine Gamu, following their previous manga No\Name, and expands Jaki's manga work beyond Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
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Rafal Jaki, executive producer of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and artist Machine Gamu launched the manga Brain Alive on Kadokawa's KadoComi website on Friday. The pilot chapter is available free in English. The digital English serialization will debut this fall, with the Japanese serialization starting the same day.
Brain Alive follows Daniel, a father who enters his comatose son's dreams to fight Slavic beasts and Japanese yokai. Jaki described the story as a love letter to Inception and Soulsborne games.
Kadokawa posted a trailer for the manga on Friday, and Jaki shared an English version on X. The pilot chapter is available through a Google Drive link.
Jaki and Machine Gamu previously collaborated on No\Name, which launched in July 2024 and ended in February 2025.
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