Yuji Horii, the mastermind behind Dragon Quest, is set to be the focus of a new manga biography that frames his career as if it were an RPG. The project reportedly adopts game-inspired storytelling — turning milestones into party-building moments and skill-ups — and follows the recent example of Masahiro Sakurai's own manga life story.

  • Format: The biography is said to present Horii's life in game terms, with recruitment of collaborators likened to assembling a party and personal growth shown as level-ups.
  • Scope: Coverage mainly centres on Horii's work on Dragon Quest, offering a dramatized look at the creative and professional events behind the series.
  • Title and sourcing: An Amazon listing and Automaton's translation point to an unofficially translated name along the lines of "Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii: New Educational Manga Biography."
  • Context: This follow-up to Sakurai's manga biography suggests a trend of documenting developers' lives through the medium of manga, especially by leaning on game-related metaphors.

Whether the manga will lean more toward factual biography or creative dramatization remains to be seen, but the RPG framing seems designed to appeal both to Dragon Quest fans and readers curious about game development.

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Source: Nintendo Life