Kanji de GO: Shueisha Manga Festival Appears For Free

Gotcha Gotcha Games revealed that it is gradually releasing Kanji de GO: Shueisha Manga Festival in Japan. The company has released the Japanese furigana typing game for free on PC, Android, and iOS devices. The PC version appeared first on DLSite, with a Steam release also set to follow suit at a later time.

This game features furigana quizzes based on terms from Shueisha’s manga titles that have different pronunciations from the regular Japanese language. For instance, while the kanji word 決闘 would be normally pronounced “kettou” (けっとう) in Japanese, the game will expect the player to type “duel” in katakana (デュエル – dhueru) when it asks the term used in Yu-Gi-Oh. In another easy example, players will be expected to answer the “2” in Luffy’s Gear 2 in One Piece as “second” (セカンド – sekando) instead of “ni” or “two.” If the player does not know the answer, they can type “q” to give up.

The new Kanji de GO game will be playable in multiple modes. The Main Mode will generate random quizzes taken from all featured manga titles with an adjustable difficulty level and amount of questions. Players can alternatively choose the Pick-Up Mode that will exclusively feature ten questions from a specific title.

As a side note, Gotcha Gotcha Games revealed that it used RPG Maker Unite to produce this game. The company thus appealed that it could create a typing game using the Unity-based game development platform originally intended for role-playing games.

Kanji de GO: Shueisha Manga Festival is readily available for free in Japan on Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as on PCs via DLSite. Shueisha and Gotcha Gotcha Games are also working to have the PC version accessible via Steam.