{"rewrite":{"id":"r_965ab5f9981ce9539cbec10d","clusterId":"c_9c7cafd8c4a1edc1db397694","slug":"daiyonkyokai-releases-free-arg-set-in-lala-editorial-department","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Daiyonkyokai Releases Free ARG Set In LaLa Editorial Department","summary":"Daiyonkyokai has released 'Their Beginning,' a free everyday erosion game set in the editorial department of the shoujo manga magazine LaLa, which marks its 50th anniversary. Players follow Serizawa, a rookie manga artist, and Shinojima, a LaLa editor, tracing why the two fell out and why Serizawa left the public stage, using Serizawa's chat screen. Cast announced for the manga 'Makuake' includes Saori Hayami and Nobuhiko Okamoto.","whyItMatters":"Daiyonkyokai builds its games into places people already go, and putting this one inside a magazine's 50th anniversary makes the boundary between the fiction and the publisher's own history harder to see.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe game runs without a console or an app. Players reach Serizawa\u0026#39;s chat screen directly, and the story unfolds from there: a rookie shoujo manga artist, an editor named Shinojima, and the unpublished work they were both chasing before the relationship broke.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMysterious posters have appeared at 10 Animate stores nationwide. The storyboard script of the manga \u0026#39;Makuake\u0026#39; runs in the November issue of LaLa, released on September 24. Saori Hayami voices Liz, Nobuhiko Okamoto voices Lenny, and Ryoko Maekawa handles narration.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaiyonkyokai previously made \u0026#39;Hito no Saifu\u0026#39; and \u0026#39;Kagami no Tokushu Shounen Kousei Shisetsu.\u0026#39;\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Their Beginning hands players Serizawa's chat logs, not scenes. Daiyonkyokai's mystery lives in what the LaLa editor wrote back, so the story you assemble is the one Serizawa never saw.","twitterPost":"Daiyonkyokai builds Their Beginning out of one side of a chat. The LaLa editor's replies are the player's only lens on why Serizawa quit.","threadsPost":"Daiyonkyokai's Their Beginning is a free ARG told through Serizawa's chat screen. Players reconstruct why the rookie and LaLa editor Shinojima fell out, but only from messages Serizawa kept. The gaps are the puzzle, not the plot.","newsletterBlurb":"Daiyonkyokai released 'Their Beginning' for free, an everyday erosion game set in LaLa's editorial department as the magazine marks its 50th anniversary. Players trace a manga artist's chat screen to learn why she and editor Shinojima fell out. Mysterious posters are up at 10 Animate stores, and 'Makuake' runs in LaLa's November issue.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/260924h\",\"title\":\"【Free】A New Artist Has Disappeared from a \\\"Real Shoujo Manga Editorial Department\\\"...? Everyday Erosion Game 'Their Beginning,' Which Unravels the Past Through \\\"Chat Screens,\\\" Released. The Latest Work from Daiyonkyokai\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4823,"outputTokens":689,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791135868,"createdAt":"2026-10-04T17:40:53.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-04T17:43:23.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T17:43:23.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_9c7cafd8c4a1edc1db397694","canonicalTitle":"【無料】“実在の少女マンガ編集部”から新人作家が消えた…？「トーク画面」から過去を解き明かす日常浸食ゲーム『Their Beginning』公開。第四境界の最新作","representativeArticleId":"a_ab02401036405994964d2a98","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Their Beginning\"],\"studios\":[\"Daiyon Kyokai\"],\"people\":[\"Saori Hayami\",\"Nobuhiko Okamoto\"],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-24T03:00:06.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-24T03:00:06.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T17:43:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Denfaminicogamer","url":"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/260924h","title":"【無料】“実在の少女マンガ編集部”から新人作家が消えた…？「トーク画面」から過去を解き明かす日常浸食ゲーム『Their Beginning』公開。第四境界の最新作"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Their Beginning"],"studios":["Daiyon Kyokai"],"people":["Saori Hayami","Nobuhiko Okamoto"],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}