North American publisher Udon Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it will release Itaru Orikasa, Maki Tomoi, and Kengoro Nishide’s Daigo The Beast: Umehara Fighting Gamers! (Umehara Fighting Gamers!) manga, based on the life of renowned Japanese fighting game player Daigo “The Beast” Umehara.
Orikasa and Nishide previously collaborated on Umehara – To Live is to Game, a one-volume manga similarly based on Umehara.
The DAIGO THE BEAST manga explores the real-life events that built the fighting game community, and the strategies and play styles developed by Daigo and his fellow gamers.
Orikasa, Tomoi, and Nishide launched the manga in Kadokawa’s Weekly Georgia magazine in 2014.