On December 27 it was disclosed by the authorized Twitter account of the Bushiroad’s Road59 multimedia franchise that the franchise is going to get a manga named Road59: Shin Jidai Ninkyō Tokku. The manga is being illustrated by Ghidora who is the designer of the characters of the franchise. This spring the manga is going to debut in Bushiroad’s Monthly Bushiroad magazine. The manga is billed as the primary manga of the project.
The project is themed about yakuza and it is the fourth major mixed project of the company after BanG Dream!, Revue Starlight, and D4DJ. The name Road59 is a play on the Japanese word gokudo which is a poetic term referring to the way of life of yakuza. The slogan of the franchise is a way from which you cannot come back.
The franchise was started with a stage play that was in succession from December 24 to December 27 at the Nakano Zero in Tokyo. In April a subsequent play is going to be in succession. The franchise stars the following:
- Yūki Kimisawa as Bakuto Yanagi
- Shūya Sunagawa as Shō Himuro
- Masahiro Inoue as Kensei Sumeragi
- Shouta Aoi as Benedict Lorenzo Vasari
The story is being penned by Nobuhiro Mōri and the franchise setting is also being done by him. The character designs are being illustrated by Ghidora. The theme song of the franchise is being presented by GACKT.
The franchise’s story is set sooner rather than later, a couple of a long time after the beginning of Japan’s present Reiwa time, and is set in another synthetic island and “exceptional ward” in Tokyo known as the Tengai Ward. Here, four yakuza associations compete for glory and impact, with every association’s driving figures bearing god-like powers as Jingi. Each of the associations look for the Yamatanoorochi no Kubi. The Head of Orochi whose blood when devoured awards Jingi a force equivalent to divine beings, just as a young lady who bears the Orochi blood and can break the seal on the old antique.
Jingi are people who have given their extraordinary forces from sire to replacement since the time of legend. They give their capacity to picked replacements, with their sire offering their blood in a cup in a proper service. Previously, they have positively shaped the mystery world by killing legendary monsters, and performing fantastic accomplishments on the front line, and have here and there conflicted with one another in the shadows. As the ages pass, they adjust their structure to the occasions, and today they work covertly social orders in the hidden world. With antiquated forces ready to twist the principles of reality, they are diving resembling creatures.
