[Manga] Makyō Zankoku Roku: Ash & Youth (魔境斬刻録 隣り合わせの灰と青春)
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Name: Makyō Zankoku Roku (lit. Record of Wicked Sorcerer) - Ash & Youth
Japanese Name: 魔境斬刻録 隣り合わせの灰と青春 (Makyō Zankoku Roku - Tonariawase no Hai to Seishun)
Author: Benny Matsuyama (ベニー松山)
Artist: Kōji Inada (稲田晃司)
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Publisher: Comic Border
Year: 2022 (digital), 2023 (physical)
Volumes: 2 (ongoing)Synopsis: The powerful spells of the Greed King Bertag have been stolen by the Great Wizard Dileena. Dileena uses her immense magical power to create a deep labyrinth, which is then infested with vicious demons. Fearing the loss of his regular army, Bertag calls together a group of daredevil adventurers and orders them to retrieve the spell in exchange for a huge bounty and a place in the Kingsguard... The "Labyrinth of the Beginning" (Wizardry), which has had a profound influence on RPGs, has been completely rebooted and adapted in comic book! (DeepL translated with few fixes)
Rationale: A dark fantasy manga rebooted and adapted from Wizardry Novel: Ash & Youth Side-by-side (another novelization of Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord) by the same author (Benny Matsuyama) without Wizardry franchise license. Might be worth to license and translate it too as Blade & Bastard already did since both are based on Wizardry. Also, Blade & Bastard did held JP-only collab giveaway with Makyō Zankoku Roku once, that was in October 25, 2023 ago during both volume 1 physical manga release in the same day for cross-promotion.
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Comic Border is the webcomic site where it was serialised, the publisher is Leed Publishing under their Border Comics label.
2022 is when it began online serialisation; the first volume came out simultaneously on print and digital in 2023.
