While North America waits for the release of the next installment in the Fire Emblem series, that would be Fire Emblem Fates, Japan is already enjoying the game and now will receive a brand new manga.
In an announcement from Nintendo at the “Fire Emblem Festivities” -- via Anime News Network -- a Fire Emblem manga will be coming to Japan in September.
The manga by Yuusuke Kozaki and Shin Kibayashi will launch in the October issue of Kodansha's Monthly Young Magazine on Sept. 19. Kozaki previously designed the characters for the Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates (Fire Emblem if) games. Kibayashi served as storywriter for Fire Emblem Fates.
What the Fire Emblem Fates manga will be about is yet unknown but ANN notes that the announcement of the new manga was accompanied by an image of a swordsman walking into the sunset.
A comic anthology for Fire Emblem Fates is set to release in August.
Fire Emblem Fates released in Japan in June and won’t be coming West ‘till 2016 but Fates will include, for the first time, same sex relationships.
"We believe that our gameplay experiences should reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate and, at the same time, we will always design the game specifications of each title by considering a variety of factors, such as the game's scenario and the nature of the game play," Nintendo said in a statement. "In the end of course, the game should be fun to play. We feel that Fire Emblem Fates is indeed enjoyable to play and we hope fans like the game."
And if you are a fan of the Fire Emblem Awakening game, characters from that game will be happy to know that some of them will appear in Fire Emblem Fates.
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