Makoto Fukami is the scenario writer for ICONOLOGY, the first title from Idea Factory's IFChronicle brand, announced September 30 for PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch Lite. His manga Chogen Market Heroes: Menko Reverser Kakeru ended with its final chapter on the Coro Coro Comic website.
Makoto Fukami's two most recent credits sit at opposite ends of a release cycle. In August, the manga he made with Shusaku Namikawa, Chogen Market Heroes: Menko Reverser Kakeru, published its final chapter on Shogakukan's Coro Coro Comic website. The series was an adaptation of the board game by Creatures and had launched on March 28. The last chapter was free to read on August 22.
Two months later, Fukami surfaced on a new project. Idea Factory's IFChronicle brand announced ICONOLOGY on September 30 for PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch Lite. Fukami writes the scenario, with Tota handling character design. The crime suspense ADV follows Haruho Tsubakiya, an art university student recruited by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Advanced Technology Investigation Division to read suspects' minds as paintings.
What connects the two stories is the range of the work rather than a single thread. One is a board-game adaptation that ran a short serialization in a children's manga magazine. The other is a conversation-driven adventure game from a new Idea Factory label, built to sell that format outside Japan. ICONOLOGY also carries a manga serialization starting October 14 in Ichijinsha's comic HOWL, so Fukami's scenario work and his manga work are moving at the same time on the new title.
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Oct 5
Idea Factory's new adventure-game brand IFChronicle announced ICONOLOGY on September 30 for PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch Lite. The crime suspense ADV casts an art university student, Haruho Tsubakiya, who is scouted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Advanced Technology Investigation Division to read suspects' minds as paintings. Makoto Fukami writes the scenario and Tota designs characters. A manga serialization begins October 14 in Ichijinsha's comic HOWL.
Aug 14
Shogakukan's Coro Coro Comic website published the final chapter of Makoto Fukami and Shusaku Namikawa's Chogen Market Heroes: Menko Reverser Kakeru manga. The final chapter will be free to read on August 22. The manga, an adaptation of the board game by Creatures, launched on March 28.