Kadokawa released a picture book based off Suika Game, the game with fruits that combine until thy create a watermelon and took the world by storm in 2023. It’s 26 pages long and costs 1100 JPY ($7.20) after taxes.
On the cover, we can see a cheery cherry, a winking watermelon, and an angry-looking strawberry from the game. As for the synopsis, it follows a lost Cherry. In order to help it get home, fruits like Strawberry and Grape help it on its journey to find its house. According to Kadokawa, the book is for children between 0 and 2 years old, so it’s for very young kids. The book also contains fun activities that a parent can enjoy with their kid. Kadokawa didn’t specify what’s in it. But some possibilities are easy quizzes to improve a kid’s cognitive reasoning or different materials on the pages so that they can enjoy various textures.
Noboru Matsuyama is the author of the book. She specializes in 4koma manga based on games like Kirby. In the past, she penned Minecraft puzzle books for Kadokawa.
Suika Game from Aladdin X is a puzzle game that was immensely popular in 2023, with many streamers and YouTubers uploading videos of themselves playing it. In June 2024, Aladdin X announced that the game surpassed 10 million downloads worldwide, with this number coming from all three official platforms. The goal of the game is to drop fruit into a receptacle and matching fruits will combine into a different one. Because of the fruits’ shapes and the physics engine, the fruits can sometimes topple in unexpected ways, ruining your plans and making it more difficult than it sounds.
Suika Game is readily available on the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. The Suika Game pictures book is available in Japan.
Published: Oct 24, 2024 09:00 am