Kodoani.com – A new website opened on Tuesday for the reveal Ninja Slayer: Neo-Saitama Enjō (Ninja Slayer: Neo-Saitama in Flames), by KADOKAWA Game Linkage and the game adaptation of the Ninja Slayer manga by Yoshiaki Tabata and ABC Animation's Yūki Yogo will launch on Steam this summer. The website also revealed the game's first trailer.
The game's website also started introducing evil enemy ninjas with Sonic Boom and Cloud Buster. The side-scrolling “high-speed ninja action” game Ninja Slayer Neo-Saitama in Flames adapts the final arc of the first manga by the same name. The game's world setting is also based on the 14 volumes compiled for the first manga. Skeleton Crew Studio is developing the game.
The game is scheduled for release this summer on Steam and will be available in Japanese, English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese Dental.
Vertical published the Ninja Slayer manga and describes the story as follows:
In the first episode of Ninja Slayer, Neo Saitama of the future is a vast urban landscape constantly filled with neon lights. And in its shadows lurks a vast criminal world filled with all sorts of shady characters. Among them is the most dangerous force known to mankind…NINJAS!
The manga began serialization in Kadokawa's Comp Ace magazine in 2013 and moved to Comptiq in September 2016. The manga ended in December 2017 and Kadokawa published the 13th, 14th, and final volumes (pictured). right) at the same time in February 2018. Tokyo Otaku Mode published the chapters of the manga's first volume online.
Kodansha Comics also published a separate manga adaptation of Kōtarō Sekine's series titled Ninja Slayer Kills.
The Ninja Slayer story was originally posted in parts on Twitter by Japanese “translators” Yū Honda and Leika Sugi, who are said to have translated the work of American authors “Bradley Bond and Philip Ninj@ Morzez.” After the story became popular, Enterbrain published the first Japanese translation volume in September 2012. A 26-episode anime series premiered in April 2015. Funimation streamed the series in North America with English subtitles and also streaming English dub. Funimation released the series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in December 2012.
A “ninja battle RPG” mobile game based on the Ninja Slayer anime was announced by AltPlus in 2015.
