Batow Zhiemay

Late summer of 2011. Mahiro Kaihara, a fifth-grader who has returned from Bristol, arrives in one of Japan's leading shipbuilding towns. The daughter of the chairman of a major shipbuilding company, this girl, who has an unwavering love for the sea and ships, encounters the V.P. "Victoria Blue," a ship boasting astonishing strength and beauty, in the naval battle royale stage of the online multiplayer game "Denshar Planet 4." However, aboard that V.P. is a man with peculiar aesthetic tastes whose every word and action is irritating. Against the backdrop of the heated (?) battles between men of the sea unfolding on the naval battle stage, a strange relationship between the two begins. This is a sequel manga to "Break Age." It was serialized in Monthly Comic Beam. After the publication of the first volume, the author took a break from writing, but it was completed six years later and published as a complete edition. (Complete in 1 volume) This volume contains all 10 chapters, including the first 5 chapters published in Comic Beam September-December 1999 and February-March 2000 issues, plus 5 newly drawn chapters for the latter half, along with a V.P. character data collection and a bonus comic. 357 pages in total.

This is the culmination of a full-color, one-page gag manga depicting the eccentric and maniacal daily lives of two quirky brothers who spend all year immersed in video games. It's packed with retro game references from the 90s. Let's reminisce! It includes 82 installments of "Brothers' Divine Techniques" (up to June 1998), which was serialized for 15 years from 1991 in "Monthly Packun Pokke" published by Game Shop Wanpaku Kozou, and all 63 installments of the four-panel manga "Cybernetic Strangeness," which was serialized in "Weekly Famitsu" published by ASCII from 1992 to 1994. At the end of the volume, there is also a bonus full-color manga "Main Character Debate" featuring the main characters of "Break Age." 191 pages in total.

The plot revolves around an intranet-based online game (D.P. = Danger Planet) which is played using a V.P. (Virtual Puppet). VP is literally an avatar which a person uses in the game. However, unlike avatars (characters) from current online games, a VP is allowed to be modified (modded) by a person if he or she has sufficient programming skills. Kilio Nimra, a normal high schooler who likes games. He and his friend Kurata always plays Danger Planet after school, one day they meet a very tough opponent.