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Konami announced the Suikoden Star Leap: Trails of the Stars manga that acts as a companion piece to the upcoming mobile game is available in English. The Aki Shimizu series already showed up in Japan. The first chapter is available on the Kadokawa Kadocomi Comic Walker site in both Japanese and English.
The manga begins by saying its events start in the Solar Calendar Year 422 and focuses on General Shapur, who will appear in the main game as the hero’s teacher and his father Hou’s aide. It shows his dissatisfaction with his life now, before offering a flashback to him as a child who wanted to be a knight and general. He met with a former knight named Bamshard who told him about the exams, but also explained that Shapur can’t become a night due to being “a heretic” and following a different religion. He then became that man’s apprentice. We then watch what his life was like training as an outsider, but that some people like Lord Alizade believed in him. However, once he’s on the front lines, he sees what the realities of being a knight are.
The end of the first chapter closed out with some additional details about the game itself. It notes the gap in time between the events of Shapur’s story and the title, which takes place in 453.
Suikoden Star Leap is in development for PCs and mobile devices, and the manga chapters will appear bimonthly.