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Rensuke Oshikiri's Gyanprin Gambling Manga Inspires Smartphone Game
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Game developer PITTITE released an iOS and Android game based on Rensuke Oshikiri's Gyanprin manga last Friday. In the game, players race to be the first to arrive at a pachinko hall. Along the way, players can collect silver pachinko balls that they can use to enhance their abilities and items.
The game is fully voiced, with the four main characters Tamako, Mizuho, Fujino, and Sami voiced by Kotomi Otsuka, Megumi Satou, Chisato Mori, and Shiho Sasaki, respectively. Oshikiri himself features as the "secret voice" of a character. Oshikiri also composed the game's music.
Oshikiri launched the manga in Futabasha's Action Magazine last August. Futabasha published the manga's first compiled book volume on Saturday.
The manga portrays the everyday lives of four young women who love gambling and a self-indulgent lifestyle. The manga's first chapter depicts the main characters waiting for a pachinko parlor to open after playing mahjong all night.
Oshikiri most recently launched a new manga titled Pico Pico Shōnen EX (Pico-Pico Boy EX) on Ohta Publishing Co.'s Ohta Web Comic site on March 2. The manga is the newest installment in Oshikiri's Pico-Pico Boy (Pico Pico Shōnen) manga series.
He also launched a new manga series titled Yōkai Massage in Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu magazine last September. Oshikiri also launched the Semai Sekai no Identity (Small World's Identity) manga in Kodansha's Morning two magazine in August.
Oshikiri resumed his Hi Score Girl manga in Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan magazine last July. The manga launched in the magazine in 2010, but had been on hiatus since 2014 due to a legal controversy involving multiple game developers claiming copyright infringement. The manga had an anime adaptation announced before the controversy broke. Square Enix and SNK settled their claims in August 2015, allowing Square Enix to publish the series again.
Oshikiri's Pupipō! horror comedy manga ran in the free web comic magazine Flex Comix Blood from 2007 to 2009. The series inspired an anime adaptation that premiered in 2013.
Source: Gamer
