Tired of the intense difficulty from FromSoftware’s latest video game hit? Well then, the video game company is offering an alternative way of enjoying a part of the game’s story. Kadokawa’s Comic Walker magazine has announced that the Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice game will be getting a manga spinoff! The manga, however, won’t be covering the entire game’s story—you’d still have to play the entire game for that. Instead, the spinoff will be following Hanbei the Undying, an NPC character in the game that acts as the protagonist’s training partner. The spinoff manga will be entitled Sekiro Gaiden: Shinazu Hanbei (Sekiro Side-story: Hanbei the Undying). Shin Yamamoto, who wrote the Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter manga, will be illustrating and is credited with organizing the manga. FromSoftware will be supervising the manga.
Check out some really good-looking sample panels below!
In addition, Yen Press has announced in their official Twitter account that it has licensed Sekiro Gaiden: Shinazu Hanbei for a North American release. Yen Press posted a teaser to the spinoff manga’s story:
The Sengoku Era…A time when losing a battle meant losing it all. The Sword Saint, Isshin Ashina, aims for world domination…That is, until he encounters a certain Samurai…
Earlier this month, it was announced that Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has sold 2 million copies just 10 days after its release. The game is described in Activision’s website as such:
Directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, and published by Activision, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a third-person, action-adventure game with RPG elements. The single-player game puts players in the protagonist role of a hard-hearted warrior whose mission is to rescue his master, a young lord who is the descendant of an ancient bloodline, and exact revenge on his arch nemesis. Set in the re-imagined world of late 1500s Sengoku Japan; a brutal, bloody period of constant life-and-death conflict, in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice you are the “one-armed wolf,” a disgraced and disfigured warrior rescued from the brink of death.
In the game, players come face-to-face with larger than life foes; unleash an arsenal of deadly prosthetic tools and powerful ninja abilities to blend stealth, vertical traversal, and visceral head-to-head combat in a bloody confrontation.
Take revenge. Restore your honor. Kill Ingeniously
Source: Anime News Network