{"id":135904,"date":"2026-02-02T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196917"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:45:00","slug":"yuji-horii-is-following-sakurais-lead-with-his-own-manga-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/yuji-horii-is-following-sakurais-lead-with-his-own-manga-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuji Horii Is Following Sakurai’s Lead With His Own Manga Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year, Masahiro Sakurai’s game knowledge was extended to yet another medium when the game developer extraordinaire’s life was translated into a manga biography<\/a>. Why do we bring this up now, you might ask? Well, because Dragon Quest<\/strong> creator Yuji Horii will soon get the same treatment (thanks, Automaton<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Unofficially titled ‘Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii: New Educational Manga Biography<\/strong>‘ (translated by Automaton), the manga is supposedly a semi-dramatised retelling of the developer’s life, predominantly focusing on his Dragon Quest work \u2014 no surprises there, then. Its Amazon listing<\/a> even suggests that it’ll frame the story as an RPG itself, with Horii-san recruiting people to his ‘party’ and ‘levelling up’ with new skills.<\/p>\n

The manga is being published by Shogakukan, with illustrations by Iori Makoto, and it’ll feature an interview with Horii-san himself at the end. While no official English translation has been announced at the time of writing, the book is set to launch in Japan on 24th February<\/strong> for 1,210 yen (roughly \u00a36\/$8).<\/p>\n

We can’t take a peek at the manga’s contents just yet, but here’s a closer look at the cover art:<\/p>\n

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This will be the latest game developer to join Shogakukan’s biography series. Back in 2018, the publisher released a similar deep dive on Pok\u00e9mon’s Satoshi Tajiri, all about the founding of another<\/em> hugely popular RPG series. Who will be next, we wonder?<\/p>\n

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