Fuga: Melodies of Steel (manga)
The Fuga: Melodies of Steel manga is a series that, initially, retells the main story of the original game up until the aftermath of the battle against Pretzel. The rest of the manga delves deeper into characters and present new scenes. It is illustrated by mangaka Takafumi Adachi.
Serialization began on December 13th, 2021, with each chapter being uploaded to Famitsu's website for free viewing every few weeks. KADOKAWA will publish volumes as ebooks. It is available in Japanese and eventually English by spring of 2023.
Summary
The story begins where the game does - When Petit Mona is invaded by the Berman Empire. Malt Marzipan along with the other children of the village follow their radio's instructions of finding & riding the Taranis. While the story follows the original plot for some time, deviations begin when the focus shifts to a newly introduced character who names himself the Maestro. Each time the focus changes, the story enters a half-chapter.
The Maestro causes many of the strange plot twists seen throughout the manga by meddling with events on his computer system. This results in different battles with the Berman, Wappa Charlotte being conscripted with the empire, and so on. A Caninu man dressed in a large hat & cloak is shown attempting to thwart whatever the Maestro's goal is, going as far as using a "dimension gun" to disintegrate his shins in order to use a dummy soul to reverse Malt's sacrifice. As the story flips back & forth between Fuga<nowkiki/>'s story and the side-plot, a short half-chapter focusing on Jiru also comes in.
Overall, the manga serves as a bridge between the first and second titles to the Fuga trilogy, filling in blanks left from the first game and hinting at things to come as the second game was completing development.
Releases
As stated in Fuga's development blogs, the manga will be seeing ebook releases beginning in March 2022 and will be published by KADOKAWA. Physical releases may also become available, though no concrete date nor plan has been settled as they are still seeking offers.
External Links
Free Content (ARCHIVED LINKS)
- Chapter 1 (Japanese)
- Chapter 2 (Japanese)
- Chapter 3 (Japanese)
- Chapter 4 (Japanese)
- Chapter 5 (Japanese)
- Chapter 5.5 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 6 (Japanese)
- Chapter 7 (Japanese)
- Special short (Japanese) *
- Chapter 8 (Japanese)
- Chapter 9 (Japanese)
- Chapter 10 (Japanese)
- Chapter 11 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 11.5 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 12 (Japanese)
- Chapter 13 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 14 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 15 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 16 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 17 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 17.5 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 17.6 to 17.9 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 18 (Japanese) *
- Chapter 19 (Japanese)
- Chapter 20 (Japanese)
- Chapter 21 (Japanese)
- Chapter 22 (Japanese)
- Chapter 22.5 (Japanese) *
*New plot and/or deviations from Fuga's original story