The Ride-on King

The Ride-On King (ライドンキング) is a Japanese manga series by Yasushi Baba. Serialized from the July 2018 issue in "Monthly Shonen Sirius" (Kodansha). As of March 2022, the cumulative number of copies has exceeded 1.3 million.

A different world based on Yasushi Baba's previous work "Goloseum", which was published in "Nemesis" up to the 37th issue released in December 2017, and its extra editions "Riding Games 1-3" and "Different World Games". fantasy comics. The catchphrase is "The president, ride in another world!!"

Synopsis
The story focuses on Aleksandr Bruchinov, the president for life of the country of Brugia, a country ruled by violence and the influence of its government. Aleksandr always desires to be dominant, and "ride" things, whether literally or figuratively. Now that he has already ridden his country, his next target is a fantasy world that has orcs, wyverns, and centaurs.

Bibliographic information

 * Yasushi Baba "The Ride-on King" Kodansha , 8 volumes already published (as of April 7, 2022)
 * First edition published on January 9, 2019 (released on the same day) - ISBN  978-4-06-514210-3
 * First edition published on May 9, 2019 (released on the same day) - ISBN 978-4-06-515493-9
 * First edition published on October 9, 2019 (released on the same day) - ISBN 978-4-06-517260-5
 * First edition published on April 23, 2020 (released on the same day) - ISBN 978-4-06-519224-5
 * First edition published on December 9, 2020 (released on the same day) - ISBN 978-4-06-521698-9
 * First edition published on May 7, 2021 (released on the same day) - ISBN 978-4-06-523248-4
 * First edition published on October 7, 2021 (released on the same day) - ISBN 978-4-06-525121-8
 * First edition published on April 2022, 4 (released on the same day) - ISBN 978-4-06-527578-8

TV commercials

 * On January 9, 2019, a 15-second commercial was released on YouTube in which Joji Nakata acted as narrator and Purchinov. This commercial was also broadcast within the TV anime version of "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" with the same magazine.
 * When the 3rd volume of the book was released in October of the same year, Joji Nakata read out the lines from the narration of each character in the U-NEXT commercial on YouTube.
 * In May 2021, a TV commercial was produced to commemorate the cumulative total of 1 million comics. Sho Hayami is in charge of the narration.

Overseas expansion

 * In September 2019, Kodansha's editor introduced the work to a Russian business partner and asked if it could be published.

Awards
He won 9th place in the comics category of the "Next Coming Manga Award 2019" and won the special U-NEXT Award. In "2020 recommended comics selected by bookstores nationwide", it was selected as 10th in the general category.

Evaluation by others
According to Junko Kuroda, a broadcast writer, this work is the very experience that even if you have doubts about the combination of ingredients, when you actually eat it, it tastes different than you imagined, and a mysterious world spreads out from unexpected combinations. , there was good surprise and laughter. This work, which created a new world by mixing various materials with outstanding drawing skills, has a rich content and is convinced that it is a manga that can be enjoyed over and over again.

Sales
Volume 2 of the book was ranked 8th from May 6th to May 12th, 2019  and 9th from May 13th to May 19th in the weekly sales ranking by COMIC ZIN. When Volume 3 was released, it was ranked 2nd in the same ranking from October 7th to October 13th, and when Volume 4 was released, it was ranked 5th in the same ranking from April 20th to April 26th. When Volume 5 was released, it ranked 6th in the same ranking from December 7th to December 13th, and when Volume 6 was released, it was in the same ranking from May 3rd to May 9th, and fifth from May 3 to May 9.

Collaboration
In December 2019, a collaboration between "Shuumatsu no Valkyrie" and "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" was held, and three collaboration POPs and posters were developed at some.

In April 2020, in commemoration of the release of Volume 4 of the book, a collaboration illustration with "Isekai Ojisan", which was almost dead and was released on the same day, was released. Both works have in common the theme of "old man x different world" and the fact that they won the U-NEXT Special Award at the "Next Coming Manga Awards 2019.

External Link

 * The Ride-on King ─ Shounen Sirius Official Website (in Japanese)
 * The Ride-on King ─ Nico Nico Seiga (in Japanese)
 * The Ride-on King ─ Comic Days (in Japanese)
 * The Ride-on King ─ Mangaka Official (@88yasushi) - Twitter
 * The Ride-on King ─ Wikipedia (in Japanese)

Trivia
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