Yuji Horii Is Following Sakurai’s Lead With His Own Manga Biography

Presented in an “RPG-like fashion”, naturally.

Last year, Masahiro Sakurai’s game knowledge was extended to yet another medium when the game developer extraordinaire’s life was translated into a manga biography. Why do we bring this up now, you might ask? Well, because Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii will soon get the same treatment (thanks, Automaton).

Unofficially titled ‘Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii: New Educational Manga Biography‘ (translated by Automaton), the manga is supposedly a semi-dramatised retelling of the developer’s life, predominantly focusing on his Dragon Quest work — no surprises there, then. Its Amazon listing even suggests that it’ll frame the story as an RPG itself, with Horii-san recruiting people to his ‘party’ and ‘levelling up’ with new skills.

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