News Skyrim-inspired Manga Revealed (1 Viewer)

[Rukia]

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Despite releasing over seven years ago and being a single player RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimremains a popular game still played by many today. The game has been ported to VR, received official cookbooks, and now – a Japanese manga.

The new manga is titled I Used to be the Strongest Sorcerer. Then I Took an Arrow in the Knee and Became a Village Guard. That’s quite the mouthful.

The story is, as the name implies, focused on the strongest spellcaster that takes an arrow to the knee, and then retires to be a lowly guard.

The catch is that the powerful wizard retires to a quiet, rural village, and the story takes on a slice of life style. The manga is based on a light novel that came out a couple years ago, penned by Japanese novelists Ezo Gingitsune and Ayano Masaki, while the manga was handled by Teddy.

You can read fan-translated volumes of I Used to be the Strongest Sorcerer. Then I Took an Arrow in the Knee and Became a Village Guard here via Mangadex.

It’s worth reiterating this is not an official spinoff for Skyrim, rather inspired by its popular “I took an arrow in the knee” meme.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is currently available for Windows PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch.

 

[Rukia]

Not sure if Skyrim-inspired is the right term to use? But it does make a very obvious nod to Skyrim's iconic "until I took an arrow to the knee" quote lmfao. That's a long ass title.

 

[blueberries]

I actually got interested cause of the ridiculous title and read a bit. I don't think there has been lot of it released and it's quite basic stuff, nth too interesting happening, but it's somewhat funny and i mean the idea behind it is quite hilarious ^^;

 

[Rukia]

I actually got interested cause of the ridiculous title and read a bit. I don't think there has been lot of it released and it's quite basic stuff, nth too interesting happening, but it's somewhat funny and i mean the idea behind it is quite hilarious ^^;

Reading that title, I almost thought it was one of those ridiculously long Light Novel titles lol. Based on the sypnosis, it's going for a more lighthearted slice-of-life approach. It's probably just another comedy show lol.

 

[blueberries]

Reading that title, I almost thought it was one of those ridiculously long Light Novel titles lol. Based on the sypnosis, it's going for a more lighthearted slice-of-life approach. It's probably just another comedy show lol.

It's quite comedy show in fantasy setting, has some battles and despite his unfortunate knee-injury- overpowered protagonist.