Yen Press has been doing a great job in picking up a lot of Sword Art Online properties over the last few years and fans are responding to them. With the light novel series Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online still unlicensed, the publisher has now acquired the manga adaptation of it. This comes from writer Keiichi Shigusawa with artwork by Tadadi Tamori. The light novel itself back in 2014 and has five volumes out so there’s plenty of material for the manga to adapt.
Plot concept: The story follows Karen Kohiruimaki, a 183-centimeter-tall (6-foot-tall) college student who’s insecure about her height, and is bad at dealing with people in the real world. She enters the world of Gun Gale Online with her avatar, Ren, who is less than 150 centimeters (5 feet) tall and wears all pink. She meets a beautiful, brown-skinned female player who goes by Pitohui. They hit it off, but one day Pitohui pressures her to participate in “Squad Jam,” a team battle royale variation of the Bullet of Bullets tournament.
