{"rewrite":{"id":"r_456580818c182e527cd9d0ac","clusterId":"c_6e791d4d5de89828e396637f","slug":"duel-masters-play-s-game-gets-pure-play-s-manga-in-weekly-corocoro-comic","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Duel Masters Play's Game Gets Pure Play's Manga in Weekly CoroCoro Comic","summary":"A new manga titled Duel Masters Pure Play's launched in Shogakukan's Weekly CoroCoro Comic manga service on Monday. Reki Yayoi draws it, and Hirokuni Nojima, the art director, character designer, and story writer for Duel Masters Play's, is credited for the original story and supervision. The manga is set in Duema City and centers on Kanon and Wedding, beings called Zeniths who learn human emotions through the city's residents.","whyItMatters":"The game's own art director and story writer taking the original story and supervision credit ties the manga directly to the smartphone title's creative team rather than treating it as a separate adaptation.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe manga runs in Shogakukan\u0026#39;s Weekly CoroCoro Comic manga service, with Reki Yayoi handling the art. Its setting is Duema City, described as a place where Duel Masters fans gather, and its leads are Kanon and Wedding, beings known as Zeniths whose grasp of human emotions and society is vague at the start. The manga follows them as they come to understand emotions through the personalities and experiences they meet in the city. Duel Masters Play\u0026#39;s launched as a smartphone game in December 2019, based on the long-running Duel Masters trading card game.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Duel Masters Pure Play's carries a shared credit: Hirokuni Nojima writes and supervises for Duel Masters Play's, so Reki Yayoi's manga inherits the game's own worldbuilding voice.","twitterPost":"Hirokuni Nojima writes and supervises Duel Masters Pure Play's, so the manga inherits the game's own worldbuilding voice.","threadsPost":"Duel Masters Pure Play's gets its story and supervision credit from Hirokuni Nojima, the same writer behind Duel Masters Play's. The manga is set in Duema City, with Reki Yayoi drawing Kanon and Wedding, Zeniths learning human emotions from residents, so the game's original voice carries over directly.","newsletterBlurb":"A manga adaptation of the Duel Masters Play's smartphone game launched in Shogakukan's Weekly CoroCoro Comic manga service on Monday. Duel Masters Pure Play's is drawn by Reki Yayoi, with the game's art director and story writer Hirokuni Nojima credited for original story and supervision. It is set in Duema City and follows two Zeniths, Kanon and Wedding, as they learn human emotions.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-15/duel-masters-play-smartphone-game-gets-duel-masters-pure-play-manga/.241787\",\"title\":\"Duel Masters Play's Smartphone Game Gets Duel Masters Pure Play's Manga\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4471,"outputTokens":631,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789515872,"createdAt":"2026-09-15T23:38:33.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-15T23:43:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-15T23:43:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_6e791d4d5de89828e396637f","canonicalTitle":"News\nDuel Masters Play's Smartphone Game Gets Duel Masters Pure Play's Manga","representativeArticleId":"a_11722731ce966e476752be89","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"Duel Masters Pure Play's\"],\"work_titles\":[\"Duel Masters Play's\"],\"studios\":[\"Shogakukan\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-15T23:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-15T23:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-15T23:43:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-15/duel-masters-play-smartphone-game-gets-duel-masters-pure-play-manga/.241787","title":"News\nDuel Masters Play's Smartphone Game Gets Duel Masters Pure Play's Manga"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Duel Masters Pure Play's"],"work_titles":["Duel Masters Play's"],"studios":["Shogakukan"],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}