The headline of the eleventh volume of Light Novels written and illustrated by Yuu Kamiya, No game, no life, confirmed that the work will have a new manga adaptation that will debut in the magazine’s first issue in 2022 Monthly comic alive, scheduled for next November 27th in Japan. The headline didn’t reveal who will be responsible for this adaptation.
On the other hand, Yuu Kamiya publishes the light novels through the publisher’s label MF Bunko J. from the publisher Kadokawa since April 2012, ten volumes published so far. A manga adaptation by Mashiro Hiiragi It has been published irregularly since January 2013. The franchise already has more than 6 million copies in accumulated circulation.
The piece inspired a twelve-part anime adaptation produced by the studios. Madhouse, Headed by Atsuko Ishizuka and scripts written by Jukki Hanada, released in April 2014. The feature film No game, no life: zero It featured the same production team and was released in Japan on July 15, 2017. Since then, the franchise has not received any new updates on new projects, and the break of more than three years since the publication of the tenth volume of the light novels doesn’t help much either.
No game, no life summary
No Game No Life is a surreal comedy that follows Sora and Shiro, the Hikikomori brothers, and the online gamer duo behind the legendary username “Blank”. They see the real world as just another lousy game; However, a strange e-mail challenging them to a game of chess changes everything: the siblings immerse themselves in an otherworldly realm, where they meet Tet, the god of games.
The mysterious god welcomes Sora and Shiro to Disboard, a world where all forms of conflict, from minor disputes to the fate of entire countries, are resolved not through war but through high-stakes games. This system works thanks to a basic rule that each party has to bet something that they believe has the same value as the other party’s bet. In this strange land where the idea of humanity is reduced to a breeze, the indifferent genius duo Sora and Shiro have finally found a real reason to keep playing: to unite the sixteen races of Disboard, defeat Tet and the gods of Zu become this new world where games are everything.
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