Watch Dogs Is Getting A Manga
If you've ever played Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs series and thought it would make for a great manga, then I have some good news for you. A new manga series based on the action-adventure game is set to debut later this week. The series will offer a brand-new story set within the tech-savvy world of the game. The book will be available, in its original Japanese, on April 12.
This new manga Watch Dogs series is being written by Shirato Seiichi who previously worked on the Princess Principal anime series. Art for the book is being handled by Kamo Syuhei who was also responsible for the art in the Gangsta: Cursed series. From this Tuesday the book will be available in its original Japanese through Shinchosha’s web magazine site Kurage Bunch.
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Manga news source, Manga Mogura RE, helped break the news for the upcoming book, aptly titled Watch Dogs Tokyo. They also shared a bit of what readers can expect from the plot of the series, tweeting that “it will be about a special new infrastructure system from a company called Bloom Japan used by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to change people’s lives. However, this new system does in fact also harbor a great darkness.”
Placing the manga within Tokyo is an interesting choice considering that it's a location not explored within the games. The first entry in the series journeyed through a futuristic Chicago while the preceding two entries explored San Francisco and London. That means that this manga will likely tell an entirely new story for the Watch Dogs universe, giving readers new characters and lore to dive into. This could open up the world of Watch Dogs to fans and allow a ton of new stories to be told in all
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