Viz Media Announces Magic: The Gathering Manga With an Exclusive Card

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Yesterday, Viz Media announced the English release of a Magic the Gathering manga series called "Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated." The manga’s physical release, due later this fall, will also come with an exclusive Magic card.

Destroy All Humans. They Can’t Be Regenerated, written by Katsura Ise and drawn by Takuma Yakota, is an ongoing manga series that was first published in 2018, according to MyAnimeList. The series, which takes place in 1998, follows a junior high school student named Hajime Kanou who goofs off with his friends by playing Magic: The Gathering. This garners negative attention from the school’s top student and Hajime’s academic rival, Emi Sawatari, who scolds him for bringing Magic to school.

Announcement: Attention Magic: The Gathering fans! The original Japanese manga, "Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga," with story by Katsura Ise, and art by Takuma Yakota, releases Fall 2024. Includes an exclusive card! pic.twitter.com/IVpEbr12ID

Their relationship takes a turn when Hajime discovers Emi is the best Magic player at their local card shop, thus propelling their budding relationship and potential romance over their shared love of the game. If you’re a fan of YuGiOh! — which coincidentally also takes place around the same year — Emi and Hajime’s relationship reads as the polar opposite of Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba. That is unless you read their relationship as a slow-burn romance, too.

Viz’s English licensing of Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated comes off the heels of Magic: The Gathering taking a victory lap with the financial success of its Fallout crossover decks. During a Q1 2024 earnings call, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks taunted the Fallout crossover as its “best-performing Commander set ever.” Seeing as how the Fallout Magic collab came after the craze of its Lord of the Rings collab, it’s safe to say Magic players are eating well.

Now, Magic fans can look forward to upcoming video