Manga: Denshi Yuugi Mokushiroku

July 12, 2005, 02:58 AM

by chazumaru, via Matsuda -
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The always interesting and unfortunately japanese-only 9bit Impression weblog has a new entry on the recent release of Matsuda's manga Denshi Yuugi Mokushiroku (which translates as "Electronic Games' Book of Revelations" and is written with the most kanji-filled words possible - in the same vein as Genshiken). Denshi Yuugi Mokushiroku begins with the classic premise of a sexy demon girl and a nervous angel girl that crash in a shy schoolboy's home. However, this kid is a retrogaming fan that never accepted the polygonal invasion of videogames, and the pixies are videogame junkies that never accepted the public dismissal of the Megadrive and SuperGrafx in Japan. Denshi Yuugi Mokushiroku goes back to various events - such as the famed "megadrive Tetris" incident - that defined the culture of hardcore gamers who refused to follow the obvious industry leader (Nintendo, then Sony).