9 manga that need JRPGs
People love wringing the sleeves of their McDonalds-stained buttoned-down shirts up to their sweaty elbows to waste precious company time tweeting into the abandon about what anime should be video games and what video games should be anime.
Tragic but as long as we live in the era where people love seeing the things they love contorted into other mediums again, and again, and again, we’ll keep feeding the fires born in our childlike hearts, further fed on 200X messages boards, now scorching myriad twitter feeds and YouTube comments sections to the salt that lay beneath.
With no regard for decency of morals, Only JRPGs further takes a plunge into Clickable Content with a list of manga we’d love to see as JRPGs, or FromSoft games, or 1990s RARE platformers.
Whatever floats your eggs man we don’t care.
Yeah we know you thought we’d be bonanzaing this bonanza with Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure but in our eternal quest to be immortalized into a dull black Playstation 1 disc we offer to you Clamp’s unfinished mid-apocalyptic magnum opus for your consideration.
A Tokyo half way into becoming a Shin Megami Tensei’d blasted Tokyo, with two teams of stylish Young Adults fighting to either save humanity or save the earth. AKA the republican’ts and democraps am I right fellas!
We imagine X fitting the contours of some Playstation 1 Zelda-A-Like ala Clamp’s Sega Saturn’s Magic Knight Rayearth or a Playstation 2 era SMT spin-off.
Ignore whatever Polygon Pictures Made-For-Netflix “Film” adaptation of Blame! you may or hopefully may not have seen; Nihei’s dystopic ideations of machine and flesh, concrete and body-horror, steel corridors and stinks of death crawl straight past the heart and burrow right down in the guts of its readers.
Having been a god’s eon since anyone tried to marry polygonal horror and Japanese Roleplaying, whether action or turn-based a Nihei creatively designed interactive Something would be welcomed into both our eyes and thumbs.
Boku no Natsuyasumi inspired low-poly daily life simulator / collectathon with cute pan-flute music, easy.
Yes there’s any number of untranslated old Hunter x Hunter games for Gameboys, Playstations, and Wonderswans.
We’d love to see a modern JRPG set in the world of HXH with a largely original story letting you take your hunter exams, earning some Jenny, and getting killed off by Hisoka in a fit of things.
Not so much ‘make a Greed Island’ game and more rendering out more of that boundless and imaginative world the manga only has time to conjure slivers of.
With an anime up and coming this year, the already popular soccer comic Blue Lock’s set to ‘score some goals’ in the Otaku Landscape this summer.
Certainly some B-grade soccer games will manifest with its cavalcade of strikers slapped onto the pitch, but with Blue Lock’s unique twists to the game of European Football itself, we envision the series translating well to something Inazuma Elevenesque or perhaps Soccer SRPG with turn based kicking mechanics!
Did you like the ‘score some goals’ line BTW?
Boku no Natsuyasumi inspired low-poly daily life simulator / collectathon but you are a robot and humanity is dying off. Put 2B in it you’ll eat it up.
It is time to get a mediocre Bandai Namco produced 3rd party studio developed Playstation 4 game based on the ill-fated Dragon Ball GT not really by Akira Toriyama…
Look, I just want more Super Saiyan IV designs ok.
Much better than anything in Super I don’t care that this is a list about JRPGs based specifically off manga fuck you.
Give us a JRPG where you gotta slash your way across zombie-fish infested Tokyo.
You could expand on the original two volume manga with some extremely monstrous, fully realized, Ito-blasted boss designs.
How about, instead of an undead shark with legs, an undead shark with legs but also with two heads? Hmmm? Hmm!!!
9. Shin Chan by Yoshitsumi usi
Boku no Natsuyasumi inspired low-poly daily life simulator / collectathon but you’re Shin Chan from Shin Chan… Oh wait.