{"id":30044,"date":"2026-02-14T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=30044"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:57:26","slug":"game-one-manga-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/game-one-manga-day\/","title":{"rendered":"One Manga Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\"OneTitle:<\/strong> One Manga Day<\/span>
Publisher:<\/strong> DeXP<\/a>
Developer:<\/strong> DeXP<\/a>
Release Date:<\/strong> June 20, 2014
Genres:<\/strong> Casual<\/a>, Indie<\/a>, Visual Novel<\/a>
Platform:<\/strong> Microsoft Windows<\/a>, Steam<\/a>
Where to Buy:<\/strong> Steam<\/a>
Rating:<\/strong> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Manga are comics created in Japan. The problem for most people is, as they're made in Japan they're only produced in Japanese; someone has to translate them to English! Is one man able to accomplish this? Is there more to his team's relationships other than business? Can everything in a translator's life be simple and clear?<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n

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Review<\/h2>\n

\"\"One Manga Day<\/em> is a relic from 2014 that I still see floating around occasionally, with reviews popping up on YouTube<\/em> as recently as 2025. It’s a visual novel about translating manga scans and in my humble opinion, the king of anime slop games.<\/p>\n

I was initially interested in the premise: it’s advertised that the story is about translating manga, but honestly this gets dropped almost immediately and the game devolves into a hellscape of totally ~*rAnDoM*~ weeaboo brain rot. Once upon a time I too was a cringe middle schooler that was both super into anime and thought being random was cool and funny, and even tween weeaboo me would have thought this game was stupid. I got bored quickly, but the game was free and I wanted to finish up the achievements, so I pushed through. I don’t take pleasure in trashing games, but to this day I still scowl when I see this game on my 100% achievements list.<\/p>\n

The game was originally written in Russian and is translated into a few languages, and let me tell you, the translations are unironically terrible<\/em>, but to some that might be part of it’s charm. While I don’t personally recommend it the game still has some fans out there, and really what’s there to lose with a free game?<\/p>\n

Quote<\/h4>\n

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“Oh! It seems we have gone too far with ‘Lorem Ipsum’ and summoned something terrifying!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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