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The Manga Works

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The Manga Works

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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.

Try searching for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games, or visit us at https://kairopark.jp. Be sure to check out both our free-to-play and our paid games!

Follow kairokun2010 on Twitter for the latest Kairosoft news and information. https://twitter.com/kairokun2010

To install apps directly onto this device, it must be jailbroken with AppSync installed.
1.0.0 (1)
Requires iOS 7.0+
August 6, 2016
18.5 MB Install Download
1.13 (1)
Requires iOS 7.0+
April 5, 2018
23.5 MB Install Download

Archived Reviews

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Dunno
     
by Ambiguous fig tree · October 1, 2025

I’m not sure if I’m messing up or the game is, but I agreed to do a series and it said to add your new manga to stock, which I did, 4 times and it never works lol

Very diverse and packed full of variety
     
by AES_Bri · March 5, 2017

As someone who plays Kairosoft games when I'm exercising, I've spent a good amount of time in the game. Actually 16 years worth so I've seen most of what this game has to offer. I'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 me to discover everything available in that path. My highest record of sold manga was 500 million. I've very proud of how much content Kairosoft continues to deliver in their tycoon games and their hidden jokes continue to crack me up!

Love this game but
     
by Dffxcc · February 10, 2021

I 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.

LOVE KAIROSOFT
     
by Islaaa · December 15, 2016

I have played nearly every game and this one was fantastic. I 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!

Where are all the games
     
by Egg dracula · September 18, 2016

Where is a new game? I'm a huge fan, but I'm dying for a new game

Amazing game!
     
by Fierysonic · February 28, 2017

The game is an amazing game! I is very fun but it is very slow on new scenery.

One of the best Kairosoft games!
     
by YourBuddyKevin · April 25, 2017

I started with Game Dev Story like you probably did, and I'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!

Plot points
     
by Kevinjpmurray · September 22, 2017

Plot points are so hard to get I wish it was easier

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