Game of Familia: Kazoku Senki (ゲーム オブ ファミリア-家族戦記-) is a Japanese manga written by Mikoto Yamaguchi, and Illustrated with D.P. A fantasy work depicting how an ordinary family is suddenly summoned to another world and caught up in a war in that world. A manga adaptation, began serialization on KADOKAWA's Niconico-based Dragon Age Comic manga service on May 09, 2018.
Synopsis[]
The protagonist along with his step-mother and 2 step-sisters are summoned into another world where demi-humans are the rulers as saviors, but it's not to fight against a demon lord, it is to fight an Undead Apocalypse monster called "Dead Mell" that has overrun the world and that can only be killed by using weapons made with holy silver. For that, a familia is made (a group of 4 people) with them being the Swordmaster that uses the holy sword, the guardian that uses the power of the earth to protect, the healer that uses the power of water to heal and the black mage that uses the power of fire to destroy. The role of the guardian, the mage, and the healer is to support the Swordmaster who can only kill the monsters. But to use magic powers one must offer part of your being as a sacrifice to form a contract with spirits, and the higher the sacrifice, the higher the power. Now they must choose who are the 3 that need to sacrifice part of their bodies to gain power and who will wield the holy sword.
(Source: MU)
Bibliographic information[]
A manga adaptation, illustrated by Hiiro Akikaze, began serialization on KADOKAWA's Niconico-based Dragon Age Comic manga service on May 09, 2018. An English published of Game of Familia by Yen Press since September 5, 2023.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | October 9, 2018 | 978-4040729121 | ─ | ─ |
| 2 | April 9, 2019 | 978-4040731353 | ─ | ─ |
| 3 | October 9, 2019 | 978-4040733586 | ─ | ─ |
| 4 | March 9, 2020 | 978-4040735009 | ─ | ─ |
| 5 | August 7, 2020 | 978-4040737676 | ─ | ─ |
| 6 | February 9, 2021 | 978-4040739809 | ─ | ─ |
| 7 | August 6, 2021 | 978-4040742069 | ─ | ─ |
| 8 | March 9, 2022 | 978-4040744551 | ─ | ─ |
| 9 | August 9, 2022 | 978-4040746746 | ─ | ─ |
| 10 | February 9, 2023 | 978-4040748665 | ─ | ─ |
| 11 | September 8, 2023 | 978-4040751269 | ─ | ─ |
| 12 | February 9, 2024 | 978-4040753157 | ─ | ─ |
| 13 | August 8, 2024 | 978-4040755533 | ─ | ─ |
| 14 | February 7, 2025 | 978-4040757957 | ─ | ─ |
Character[]
Sasae and his family are transported to a different world. They meet a girl with animal ears that had summoned them, but soon after that monsters attack them. The girl sacrifices herself letting them escape and asking them to save this world. As they ran, they meet Sugar Manish, the girls sister who saves them from the monsters. She explains them their current situation and that they need to become a "familia" to fight the monsters. Since three of the four roles require the user to pay a price, Sasae convinces Kanae for he to take those three roles.
Sasae summons the three king spirits of fire, earth and water. They are not interested in making a pact with him, but being bored they listen to what he has to say. He manages to convince them to form a pact with him, by saying he is ready to give everything, his whole body as long as he keeps the most important things for him. Being interested in what's more important than himself, the spirits agree and take over his eye, blood and half of his body.
He quickly masters his new powers and starts supporting his family in fights against Dead Mells. When an investor, Ru, comes and requests Manako to come to his room or he will stop supplying the stronghold, Sasae creates a new magic brick-dolls, allowing him to create perfect doll of his sister and tricks Ru and threatens him to continue supplying the place. Ru quits on the next day, but informs the king of Saifan, who orders the arrest of the whole family. Sasae had predicted that and secretly tells Hinana that he will do something reckless and if it doesn't work, she needs to cut him from the family and say that he was always bad guy. Sasae then heads towards the capital alone to meet the king and upon learning his weakness, he kidnaps his wife, Searus Saifan, forcing the king to send his army to help the stronghold. As the army left the capital, Daba country tries to invade, but creating a new magic Nova Meteor, Sasae instantly wipes all twenty thousand troops.
Abilities[]
He is summoned to another world and becomes a familiar with Kanae and other sisters in order to fight《Dead Mell》. His roles in Familia are『Guardian』,『Black Sorcerer』, and『White Healer』, and can cast magic of all attributes of defense, support, and recovery at the same time. can handle. In order to acquire each skill, he negotiates and contracts with the 《Spirit Kings》, who are super-high spirits, but at that time it is unknown what he negotiated for. Since his contract, he has three Spirit Kings in his body, a tattoo-like pattern appears on his left half of the skin, and the color of his left eye has also changed.
The compensation is "something important to me" such as lifespan and physical function, and to make a contract with a more powerful spirit, it is necessary to pay more important things as compensation. For a man to become a Familiar, he would have to pay for a part of his limbs, so it is considered unsuitable for combat. And thus Sasae compensates for being a human for contracting the 3 spirit king to protect his family.
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《Melty Rho》 -An extremely high-ranking spirit called the " Fire Spirit King". He looks like a giant in armor. He has a contract with Hatsushima's support guard and is an existence that gives support magic skills as a "black magician (sorcerer)" to the support guard. Compared to the other Spirit Kings, he has an emotional personality, and he got angry at the provocation of the support guard who came to sign the contract and once even tried to burn the support guard to death. After the contract, the guard's left eye is possessed as a yorishiro.
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《Aquasphere》 - An extremely high-ranking spirit called the " Spirit King of Water". He looks like a giant woman. He signed a contract with Sasae's support guard, and is an existence that gives the support guard the skills of recovery magic as a "white priest (healer)". She sees that the Spirit King is bored, and is amused by the support guard who even provokes them, and makes a contract with him. After signing the contract, he possesses the guard's blood as a substitute.
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《Ken Rouga》 - An extremely high-ranking spirit called the " Earth Spirit King". He looks like a giant wolf. He has signed a contract with Sasae's guard, giving him defensive abilities and magical skills as a "guardian". Like the other Spirit Kings, he spent a lot of time as a spirit and rarely made contracts with people, so he was bored. After the contract, the left half of the guard is possessed as a substitute.
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Sasae lived with his father, Daiki Hatsushima, until he was 16. A mediocre boy who doesn't have any extraordinary talent, he inherits his poor father's cunning and is good at negotiating. Sasae inherits his poor father's cunning and is good at negotiating (Persuade) and thus he also learns how to please women. Sasae can utilize magic to fly, amplify or reduce physical abilities of himself and others, prevent targets from hearing one another, telepathically communicate, as well as create illusions, this technique is called "Magic Synthesis" and is a method that combines 2 or more elements with modern knowledge about science and other technique to can apply to magic. The Spirit kings who contract with Sasae was impressed by how he handled and created new magic technique like "Brick Doll".
- Black Mage: Melty Rho gives Sasae the ability to manipulate Hell Fire.
- Hell's Flame: Sasae releases a powerful burst of fire
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- White Mage: Aquasphere gives Sasae the ability to manipulate Water, also allowing for manipulation of the weather for things such as the creation of a thunderstorm, and healing.
- Shield Guardian: Kenrouga gives Sasae the ability to manipulate Earth, even to create golems indistinguishable from their templates.
- Magic Synthesis: Sasae combines Melty Rho, Aquasphere, and Kenrouga's powers,
- Nova Meteor
- Trinity Gale
- Infinity Chain
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As a member of Phoenix Class, Sasae claims his spirit is Armored Rhinoceros Beetle - the 5th Rank Earth Spirit to hide the 3 spirit kings reveal.
Equipment:
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Later it revealed that Sasae gave up his concept of death in exchange of the contract to the spirits to gained immense power in this abandoning the concept of death and becoming immortal, the day he survived his sense of pain and fear of getting injured slowly started losing it.
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| ─ "For normal people like us to live and survive, we have to make use of everything we have." ─ "Regardless of the powers you hold, If you are a living being with feelings. Then you will definitely have a weakness." ─ "The reason for that is simple. Those beautiful words are what saved me. Even though I was a piece of shit, those girls lit up my world. If I didn't meet them I would become just like that man. I think I would turn into scum. That's why on the day I killed him I swore one thing. I will do whatever it takes to protect those who my heart considers as family." |
Production Background[]
In addition to being released on the web, it will also be broadcast on the TV anime slot provided by KADOKAWA. In the commercial, Iori cosplays the second daughter, Manako, who is the older sister of the main character, and some bookstores are distributing "Iori's bookmarks" using that visual as a bonus. The condition is to purchase one of the volumes 1 - 4 of "Game of Familia: Kazoku Senki", it is available at Animate, Gamers, Sanyodo Shoten, Toranoana, Melon Books, WonderGOO, and others. Additionally, on the Monthly Dragon Age (KADOKAWA) official website, there will be a giveaway campaign where 5 people will win a poster signed by Iori (@iorimoe_five). Details have been announced on the site's news page and the magazine's official Twitter account on March 9th.
External Link[]
- Game of Familia: Kazoku Senki ─ Dragon Age Comic Official Website (in Japanese)
- Game of Familia: Kazoku Senki ─ ComicWalker Website
- Game of Familia: Kazoku Senki ─ Nico-Nico Seiga
See Also[]
- Karate Baka Isekai, Another manga series with the same illustrator.
- Yojouhan Isekai Kouryuuki, Another manga series with the same author.
Trivia[]
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