Kuudanshi - Recommendations

• Vol: 10; Ch: 60
• 2006 - 2013

Life at Studio G3 continues as always with Taiyou, Hoshino and the rest of the gang working as hard as ever. New to the team is Momo Momoda, a 24-year-old girl who is eager to follow her dream and become a game designer! What new adventures await the overworked designers and developers at Studio G3?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 11
• 2018 - 2019

• Vol: 4; Ch: 30
• 2014 - 2015

Yuuka Yoshimi is a young woman working in a Eroge studio who is learning how to make good ecchi CG.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 21
• 2016 - 2017

Buntarou is a student who wants to be something, but doesn't know what. One day his female classmate Sayuki announces she is working on a bishoujo (pretty girl) game. Sayuki scouted him because he wrote a good script for drama club, but Buntarou doesn't know anything about bishoujo games.

• Vol: 2+; Ch: 21+
• 2017 - ?

The 1980s and 1990s was the “adolescence” of the game industry. Wanting to find out more about the passionate, young, overeaching past of the game designers that struggled during that time, this report manga was created.

• Vol: 6; Ch: 88
• 2007 - 2013

Recently graduated Suzumura Rikako was still jobless when her older sister insisted that she apply to the company that she was working for. It sounds really great except for the part where that company is an erotic game developer. Rikako has yet to embrace her sexuality and add to that her shy personality and you have a recipe for disaster. But with all the employees, from the designers to programmers to advertising, being cute females, maybe Rikako won’t have such a hard time making this her career, or maybe it just might make it even more awkward.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 20
• 2005 - 2006

Tengawa Taiyô (the sun in Japan) is a great (but unrecognized) game creator and the boss of his own development studio (but he's in debt). He then meets a nice young woman, but she comes to turn his loser company.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 1990

Follow the story of Enix from the time it starts working with games, until its release of the series it became known for, Dragon Quest. All the characters are real Enix employees at the time. You get to see the developers as real people, who agonize over everything, like how big to make the text boxes, what should NPCs say, etc, as well as how they get along with each other.

• Vol: 16
• 2004 - 2009

Normal 18 year-old high school boy Min Woo, a total otaku. Does what every good little otaku boy does. Collects figurines and toys, wins prizes at cosplay contests and is a two-time champion of the fighting game "Metal Heart". Unfortunately for him, his social life is dominated by girls telling him to get lost, since his otaku-ness might be contagious. But after an accident while he is invited to participate in the playtesting of "Metal Heart 2", the main character to the game, Min Sia, materializes in front of his eyes at a cosplay festival. And now, Min Woo has to win Sia's heart in a real-life dating sim game with the fate of the world in the balance. Ok, so maybe not the world, but at least the fate of the company behind "Metal Heart 2" hanging in the balance. And who is this girl, Nuri, who appears to be following Sia and claims to be Min Woo's childhood friend...?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 28
• 2006 - 2008

Honoka, a lonely young student, loves to doodle and draw. But her casual love of art is transformed when her uncle hires her to work as a character developer at his new video gaming company. Honoka has no idea how to negotiate the complex corporate world, and as she begins to learn the basics of the video game industry, she finds herself getting caught up in the confusing politics, crushing responsibilities, and difficult developmental aspects of her newfound calling. Overwhelmed by the challenges, Honoka realizes that she'll have to give it her all if she wants to succeed.