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The Manga Works – Entertainment Game Review
The Manga Works is a Entertainment/Simulation/Adventure game from Kairosoft Co.,Ltd, first launched in 11th August 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 48+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Manga Works Stand Out
It's the manga artist experience you've been waiting for!
Create a manga masterpiece and draw your way into the nation's heart.
Start out as a fledgling manga artist in a small and empty room… Armed with only a single pen, draw the best manga you can and march proudly to the publishers to show off your work.
Ideas are the lifeblood of a manga artist. Go out in search of inspiration and gather plot points, then stuff your manga full of creativity.
Accumulate experience points and use them to train up your drawing, storytelling, and other skills.
When you think you've created a great one-shot, take it to a publisher! If you manage to make the "editor from hell" smile, it might just be the start of a fruitful relationship.
Produce the best manga the world has ever seen, and write your name down in history!
- All game progress is stored on your device. Save data cannot be transferred between devices, nor can it be restored after deleting or reinstalling the app.
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Manga Works is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th April 2024
Recent improvements include:
Fixed minor issues.
Download & Availability
The Manga Works is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Manga Works on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Honestly, really like this game! Its super entertaining, but always has us stressed out lol. The publishers ask for so much with so little time (which is super realistic) but with such a weak work lvl in the beginning it makes it increasingly difficult to make a good rep with them. But maybe idk what Im doing. Otherwise this is a fantastic game.
Im not sure if Im messing up or the game is, but we agreed to do a series and it said to add your new manga to stock, which we did, 4 times and it never works lol.
We like all kairosoft games but this game has no landscape option. The switch version does but not this one. So if you want landscape get the switch version.
Almost every time text comes up in the game, words are missing a space between them – sometimes it happens multiple times in one speech box. It makes the game almost completely unplayable. We went into it ready to overlook it happening a few times, but it just keeps coming up. We could maybe understand this appearing in a free app, but this is a $5 game from a dev with a decent track record.
We started with Game Dev Story like you probably did, and we've played through almost every Kairosoft game like you might have. If you're a fan of Game Dev Story and/or Anime Studio Story you should scoop this one up for sure.
As someone who plays Kairosoft games when we're exercising, we've spent a good amount of time in the game. Actually 16 years worth so we've seen most of what this game has to offer. We've played the girl's part and the original and will get around to the comedy one soon. Kairosoft gives you the choice of three paths which surprisingly do offer substantial variety from the other. It took 13 years in the girl's path for us to discover everything available in that path. Our highest record of sold manga was 500 million. We've very proud of how much content Kairosoft continues to deliver in their tycoon games and their hidden jokes continue to crack us up.
The game is an amazing game! We is very fun but it is very slow on new scenery.
We have played nearly every game and this one was fantastic. We check every so often to see when new games are released and it's been awhile! Hoping someone at kairosoft might see this and realize you have fans who are excited for new releases! Or even translated games that haven't been released in English.
This game is really good! We are really addicted to it, If you're looking forward to buy this game, we totally recommended, At first it seems boring but then you'll love it, You guys had us impressed and we can't wait for a new game to come out from you guys.
Where is a new game? We're a huge fan, but we're dying for a new game.
Plot points are so hard to get we wish it was easier.
It's a great game, like all Kairosoft games are. The only thing about this one is that it starts off at a great pace. After getting through a couple of your first manga's you'll get the hang of making a better one to rack in more money and better your time management. The only downside we would say is; after you get to your 3rd publisher it gets harder to get trophies (which allows you to obtain more manga publishers) after you get all the trophies for the 3rd publisher it is almost impossible to get trophies for the 4th publisher without grinding out some manga to level up your 4 main skills. This could take forever, especially since a level up on stats only gives you +2, and your goal is 200+ Other than this slow and dragged out part of the game it gets back up to speed and you'll be able to get your final 2 publishers. After getting the trophies from the final publisher then you can freely write manga to gain money and be #1 on the leaderboard. Great game over all, hoped this helped! :).
We enjoyed how Kairosoft was innovative in making this game and tried to add many new aspects to it. However the game had too much micromanaging in it and the addition of stamina was quite annoying as it lead to the micromanaging. It is also extremely hard to build up skills with them going up usually 1 or 2. Another downside is the fact that getting the publishers beyond number 4 is nearly impossible. It took us a long time to get to that point.
Whenever you complete a manga, there's a screen that gives you exp and states how much plot points you earn, but sadly the plot points bar doesn't update at all, so you don't get the value stated.
How is this game worth $5??? This game has very little depth, it's way too repetitive. We love Kairosoft, but this would be the first game we'd ask for a refund.
As is usual for this company AN AMAZING, ADDICTIVE GAME.
One of the best Kairosoft games yet.
It's a good game but we always feel like there's something wrong. It says we're suppose to get plot points for making manga, and it says in certain pop ups "Got 50 bonus plot points" but we don't actually get any. Is this a bug.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.40
- Size: 65.88 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, KO, ZH, TH, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Last updated: 9th April 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd