The Manga Works

The Manga Works is a manga artist simulation game in which you begin as a fledgling artist in a small, empty room with a single pen. Over five years, you create manga, build a relationship with publishers and work to become a famous artist, climb to number one in the rankings and win publishers' prizes.

Create your manga

Choose a theme and a scene, then combine them to make a manga. How well they fit together affects the experience points you earn, while popular combinations make the manga longer. You can buy more themes and scenes in the shop, or acquire them by completing one-shot requests. Drawing different combinations can also bring in more requests and interviews as you produce more volumes.

Training improves your skills and is directly tied to the quality of your manga. As your manga artist rank rises through selling volumes, you unlock more shop items, themes, scenes and publishers.

Work with publishers

Publishers sell your manga and support you as an artist. Choose one that suits your work to help you reach a high popularity rank; the more manga you have in circulation, the more power publishers have. Complete requests for one-shot manga, which may lead to an offer to create a series. If you keep turning down publisher requests, they will stop sending them, and you will need to draw a new manga and take it to publishers again.

Build a series

Once your manga is serialized, use Plot Points to plan volumes and rise through the popularity rankings. The number of Plot Points you spend determines the manga's atmosphere: a small number creates an Ordinary Arc, while using more creates a Highlight Arc. In some cases, linking the atmospheres of three weeks in a particular order makes the manga even better.