Assassin’s Creed has had various comic book and manga adaptations, most notably the Blade of Shao Jun, which was inspired by Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China.
But the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows was always going to be ripe for a manga, and Ubisoft has announced that it’s cooking up an adaptation for launch in Japan. The comic will release globally at a later date, with Kodansha on publishing duties.
“Discover the official prequel of the game,” the blurb reads. “Follow the story a young Assassin apprentice, as she fights against the growing presence of the Templars order in Japan.”
Judging by the cover, there’ll be multiple volumes and the story will star Naoe from the game. Obviously, it’s unclear how it will connect to the main plot just yet, but hopefully it adds some depth to the characters and storyline.
There are no samples of the artwork inside the comic just yet, but we’ll definitely get a better look in the lead up to its Japanese launch on 20th March.
[source x.com]
Comments 17
Ooo boy I can't for the life of me seeing this turn out well 😅
Manga isn't for me, but this seems pretty interesting. My assumption is they're tying the arrival of the Portugese/Catholics in Japan to the Templars, but I wonder how they justify the Assassins' pre-established presence in Japan.
Hell yeah, I'm in
Would buy, honestly
Nice. AC actually has some really good stuff in some of their comic book runs. AC The Fall in particular is a favorite of mine. I'll definitely give this a read whenever it's available.
I want to read this!! Love the Assassin's Creed comics!!
Where is the obligatory TV show? Concord and Unknown 9 demonstrated how successful transmedia strategies must look today.
@Max_the_German I mean, Assassin's Creed already has a movie haha.
@get2sammyb Yeah, I forgot about this (or rather repressed it).
Removed - unconstructive; user is banned
@EddieGallad So, if they'd crafted a fake Japanese Samurai soley for this game would you have felt the same?
@AhmadSumadi I'll use an example of a story that I would play without complaining... let's say that Ubisoft created an Assassin's Creed where an African slave (which has already had several games in the franchise with this theme) escaped from a Portuguese ship during a navigation in Japan for example and was taken in by a Japanese samurai... it could be a fictional one or even Musashi and received samurai training and became an assassin... or something like that... that would be good and would not be disrespecting the country's culture.
@EddieGallad This whole 'offended on Japan's behalf' thing is ridiculous. The average Nihonjin probably doesn't care about samurais to begin with. Pretty sure most of them were seen as thugs anyway; removed from Western romanticism, there wasn't much worth honoring about them.
Maybe historical nerds care about the likely inaccuracies about Yasuke. I doubt it's something that everyone is just aware of and cares about. Of those aware of it, I'm sure only a fraction are offended at all by it. YouTube comments just aren't a great barometer of legitimate outage.
I've been reading another manga with (a much cooler looking) Yasuke lately.
Removed - unconstructive; user is banned
@EddieGallad great idea on many levels.
Obviously not being based on a real person whose history was falsely distorted (aka absolute lie) by a corrupt and unethical academic is a good starter.
Instead it sticks to the standard of the AC protagonist being fictional, but bumping into real life characters where some minor artistic licence is used.
Also by playing as this complete outsider who is introduced to an alien world and has to quickly learn how to adapt and thrive within it, it would give the game a chance to educate me as a player as to what that country and culture were like during the time period.
The player and character have to learn and adapt simultaneously.
Where as in Ghost of Tsushima that isn't really the goal to teach the player about the time period, as the protagonist is already well familiar with it. I found Mirage's codex to be very interesting and learned a lot, but I'd learn a lot more if it was explained via the plot and gameplay.
I'd buy it.
@RoomWithaMoose like I always say, I didn't know so many people were so into the kind of work Sweet Baby does. From my experience, most of the people crying about representation in this case are the "facts not feelings" crowd. They can't just say "oh, sorry, to clarify, I'm a racist," lol, so they go on about just how insulting the architecture of this historical fiction game is. It's so transparent.
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...