Software:Bungō to Alchemist
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| Developer(s) | EXNOA |
| Publisher(s) | DMM Games |
| Director(s) | Kōhei Taniguchi |
| Writer(s) | Jirō Ishii |
| Composer(s) | Sakamoto Hideki |
| Platform(s) | PC (HTML5), iOS, Android |
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| Genre(s) | Online web browser game |
Bungō to Alchemist (文豪とアルケミスト lit. Writers and Alchemist), also known as BunAl (文アル Bunaru)[1], is a free-to-play collectible card browser video game launched in Japan on November 1, 2016[2] with a mobile port of the game releasing in June 14, 2017. The game is developed by EXNOA and published by DMM.com.
Gameplay
In the game, you are tasked as a Special Duty Librarian (特務司書), otherwise known as The Alchemist (アルケミスト). You are tasked to delve into tainted books and purify them with parties composed of writers (文豪, lit. "Literary Great") to fight Taints who have corroded the books. To obtain these writers, you are also tasked to delve into ensouled books in order to transmigrate and recruit them into your library.[3]
The writers in the game are depicted as bishōnens. The designs for each character were partially inspired by their real life counterparts, with each of them holding a book with the covers designed to be similar to a book they had written in real life, though the design of their hairstyles are entirely made up by the designers of the game.[4]
Development
The idea for the game was proposed by Kōhei Taniguchi as a game where players would collect fictional characters from works of Japanese literature but, after talking with Jirō Ishii the two decided to make the game about the authors instead. Taniguchi was responsible for the game's concept planning while Ishii was responsible for the world-building. The two of them originally felt a little off about having writers fight using weapons but, after coming up with the idea of the writers delving into tainted books and making the setting somewhat fantasy-like, Ishii and Taniguchi liked the idea enough to implement it. The idea for obtaining the writers through transmigration came after, Ishii came up with the idea of obtaining writers by dragging them out of the books after the two settled on setting the game in a library.[4]
Early on, they also decided to add writers which have strong connections with other writers who are already in game as both creators wanted to show the relationships of their real-life counterparts. Taniguchi also expressing that he would like to explore how some of the writers would interact with one another by mirroring how they felt about one another in real-life.[4]
Characters
Characters featured in the game are based on real-life writers mainly from Japan along with a few writers from the western hemisphere. The weapons the writers use in-game are usually representative of their main body of literary work.[4]
Blades - Representing writers who mainly had written novels and short stories.
Bows - Representing writers who mainly had written Naturalist literature.
Whips - Representing writers who had written popular literature.
Guns - Representing poets and writers of children's literature.
Writers
Initially only 35 writers were in the game but as updates came the number of writers that can be obtained increased. Currently there are 90 slots in the writer's register with 81 obtainable characters.
| No. | Name | Weapon | Voice Actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akutagawa Ryūnosuke | Blade | Suwabe Junichi |
| 2 | Dazai Osamu | Blade | Nakamura Yūichi |
| 3 | Hagiwara Sakutarō | Gun | Nojima Kenji |
| 4 | Nakahara Chūya | Gun | Kakihara Tetsuya |
| 5 | Izumi Kyōka | Blade | Kamiya Hiroshi |
| 6 | Natsume Sōseki | Blade | Toriumi Kōsuke |
| 7 | Miyazawa Kenji | Gun | Yonaga Tsubasa |
| 8 | Tanizaki Jun'ichirō | Blade | Okamoto Nobuhiko |
| 9 | Nagai Kafū | Bow | Okiayu Ryōtarō |
| 10 | Shimazaki Tōson | Bow | Tachibana Shinnosuke |
| 11 | Tayama Katai | Bow | Kaji Yūki |
| 12 | Shiga Naoya | Blade | Maeno Tomoaki |
| 13 | Mori Ōgai | Blade | Ōkawa Tōru |
| 14 | Kawabata Yasunari | Blade | Seki Tomokazu |
| 15 | Kitahara Hakushū | Gun | Hanae Natsuki |
| 16 | Murō Saisei | Gun | Ōsaka Ryōta |
| 17 | Kajii Motojirō | Blade | Sugiyama Noriaki |
| 18 | Hirotsu Kazuo | Blade | Fukuyama Jun |
| 19 | Mushanokōji Saneatsu | Blade | KENN |
| 20 | Ozaki Kōyō | Whip | Midorikawa Hikaru |
| 21 | Sakaguchi Ango | Blade | Sugita Tomokazu |
| 22 | Edogawa Ranpo | Whip | Saitō Sōma |
| 23 | Tsubouchi Shōyō | Blade | Seki Toshihiko |
| 24 | Futabatei Shimei | Blade | Yasumoto Hiroki |
| 25 | Arishima Takeo | Blade | Hoshi Sōichirō |
| 26 | Satō Haruo | Blade | Tai Yūki |
| 27 | Kobayashi Takiji | Blade | Konishi Katsuyuki |
| 28 | Ibuse Masuji | Blade | Takeuchi Shunsuke |
| 29 | Yokomitsu Riichi | Blade | Hatano Wataru |
| 30 | Oda Sakunosuke | Blade | Onosaka Masaya |
| 31 | Hori Tatsuo | Blade | Takahashi Kōji |
| 32 | Nakajima Atsushi | Blade | Ishikawa Kaito |
| 33 | Koizumi Yakumo | Whip | Uchida Yūma |
| 34 | Masaoka Shiki | Gun | Shiraishi Minoru |
| 35 | Wakayama Bokusui | Gun | Miyashita Eiji |
| 36 | Takamura Kōtarō | Gun | Morita Masakazu |
| 37 | Ishikawa Takuboku | Gun | Matsuoka Yoshitsugu |
| 38 | Kunikida Doppo | Bow | Masuda Toshiki |
| 39 | Rohan Kōda | Whip | Koyasu Takehito |
| 40 | Matsuoka Yuzuru | Blade | Kishio Daisuke |
| 41 | Yoshikawa Eiji | Whip | Azakami Yōhei |
| 42 | Yamamoto Yūzō | Blade | Matsumoto Yasunori |
| 43 | Kume Masao | Blade | Yoshino Hiroyuki |
| 44 | Tokunaga Sunao | Blade | Yamashita Daiki |
| 45 | Nakano Shigeharu | Blade | Akabane Kenji |
| 46 | Iwano Hōmei | Bow | Hayashi Yū |
| 47 | Masamune Hakuchō | Bow | Terashima Takuma |
| 48 | Tokutomi Roka | Whip | Furukawa Makoto |
| 49 | Naoki Sanjūgo | Whip | Kondō Takashi |
| 50 | Yumeno Kyūsaku | Whip | Namikawa Daisuke |
| 51 | Nakazato Kaizan | Whip | Tsuda Kenjirō |
| 52 | Kan Kikuchi | Whip | Miki Shinchirō |
| 53 | Itō Sachio | Gun | Iguchi Yūichi |
| 54 | Miki Rofū | Gun | Kajiwara Gakuto |
| 55 | Miyoshi Tatsuji | Gun | Terashima Junta |
| 56 | Niimi Nankichi | Gun | Murase Ayumu |
| 57 | Ogawa Mimei | Gun | Yamamoto Kazutomi |
| 58 | Yoshii Isamu | Gun | Satō Takuya |
| 63 | Yamada Bimyō | Whip | Kobayashi Yūsuke |
| 64 | Suzuki Miekichi | Gun | Yonai Yūki |
| 65 | Uchida Hyakken | Whip | Yashiro Taku |
| 67 | Saitō Mokichi | Gun | Sakurai Takahiro |
| 68 | Kusano Shinpei | Gun | Nishiyama Kōtarō |
| 69 | Satomi Ton | Blade | Ishida Akira |
| 73 | Shimada Seijirō | Whip | Shirai Yūsuke |
| 74 | Dan Kazuo | Blade | Ono Yūki |
| 75 | Takahama Kyoshi | Gun | Suzuki Tatsuhisa |
| 76 | Kawahigashi Hekigotō | Gun | Shimazaki Nobunaga |
| 77 | Kitamura Tōkoku | Gun | Amasaki Kōhei |
| 78 | Tokuda Shūsei | Bow | Watanabe Takumi |
| 79 | Lev Tolstoy | Whip | Shimono Hiro |
| 80 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Blade | Morikawa Toshiyuki |
| 82 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Bow | Inoue Kazuhiko |
| 83 | Charles Baudelaire | Gun | Kimura Ryōhei |
| 84 | Arthur Rimbaud | Gun | Kobayashi Chiaki |
| 85 | Ernest Hemingway | Whip | Kuroda Takaya |
| 86 | Francis Scott Fitzgerald | Blade | Komada Wataru |
| 87 | Edgar Allan Poe | Whip | Itō Kentarō |
| 88 | Howard Phillips Lovecraft | Whip | Murakami Satoru |
| 89 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Whip | Mikami Satoshi |
| 90 | Lewis Carroll | Gun | Aoi Shōta |
Related Media
Anime
In 2020, the series received an anime series produced by OLM, Inc. named Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement- (文豪とアルケミスト 〜審判ノ歯車〜 Bungou to Alchemist ~Shinpan no Haguruma~). The series ran for 13 episodes from April 4, 2020 to August 8, 2020.[5]
References
- ↑ "コミックマーケット91 DMMブースにて文アルグッズ販売決定！". DMM GAMES. 20 December 2016. http://bungo.dmmgames.com/news/161221_03.html. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ↑ "文豪転生シミュレーション「文豪とアルケミスト」の正式サービスが本日スタート。第2回ニコ生番組が11月5日に配信決定". 4Gamer. 1 November 2016. https://www.4gamer.net/games/355/G035572/20161101026/. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ↑ "世界観". DMM GAMES. 5 May 2018. http://bungo.dmmgames.com/world.html. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "『文豪とアルケミスト』が掘り起こした“文系男子”の需要――イシイジロウ氏＆谷口Pロングインタビュー【前編】(1/2)". Famitsu. 22 February 2017. https://www.famitsu.com/news/201702/22127411.html. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ↑ "オンエア / 配信". Anime Bungo to Alchemist. 5 May 2018. https://anime-bungo-alchemist.com/onair/. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
External Links
- Bungō to Alchemist - Bungō to Alchemist official site (in Japanese)
- Bungō to Alchemist -Gears of Judgment- - Bungō to Alchemist external site (in Japanese)
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