The creator of my new manga obsession is an Elden Ring fan preparing for the DLC by "only leveling up Strength" because "power is everything," and yeah, that tracks

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree screenshot
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Almost as beloved as their avatars, mangakas often leave a personal note with each new work they produce. Few, 𝔉though, are doing it better than Undead Unluck creator Yoshifumi Tozuka.

Tozuka recently caught the internet's eye by revealing he's replaying 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring on PC to prepare for the DLC, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shadow of the Erdtree. "I'm only leveling up strength," he said. "Pow𒐪er is everything." Unfathomably based.

We're no strangers to single-minded challenge runs. After all, the wait for DLC has seen Elden Ring fans do plenty - horse-only, bow-only, no arrows, just mounted attacks, 🌄you n▨ame it. But Tozuka? He's only playing the game🐎, just ♎with the exact power-focused build I'd expect after seeing Undead Unluck's fight scenes and character designs.

If you've missed the manga and anime so far, Undead Unluck is a supernatural comedy that has been in production since January 2020. It's about a woman cursed to bring misfortune to those around her, and decides there's little she now wants from life. Fuuko Izumo has been in seclusion for 10 years since an incident left over 200 people dead, including her parents, and her favorite long-running shōjo manga series has run its course, so what else is there left to do? 

In a turn of eveౠnts, she bumps into an immortal chap with regenerative abilities who isn't one for living either, desiring the best death possible. It's a union that makes enough sense, so they begin to work togeth🌌er before a mysterious group decides to give chase. If not for the manga itself, come along for Tozuka's gaming musings.

Putting aside how much of a pain that is, it's not the first time Tozuka has spoken about Elden Ring. At another , Tozuka revealed that he grinds levels in the open-world RPG while awaiting opponents in card battler Yu-Gi-Oh𝓰! Master Duel. 

That's only scratching the surface of Tozuka's gaming credentials, too. Another of Tozuka's manga signoffs , "I played 𒀰Street Fighter 6 with Terasaka Sensei! My first fighting game friend. I was all alone in Street Fighter 5. I'm so happy." 

It's extra wholesome, though, reading Green Green Greens mangaka Kento Terasaka's snippet, ꦏwhich reveals another side. "I got smashed by Tozuka Sensei's Kimberly," they . All those great techniques … w🔯all splat … rest … oww … Let's play again, sensei!" 

Tozuka isn't all about crushing his enemies, mind you. The mangaka also the Pokemon Sleep app as "sleep is so important," and he hoped to "learn a lot." Here's hoping he got what they wanted out of it. Of course, Tozuka doesn't solely use Undead Unluck's pages to talk about gaming. He paid respects to Dragon Ba🐠ll icon Akira Toriyama, who passed away earlier this month. 

If you want more good reads, check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best manga of 2023.

Iain Harris
News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JꦇRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak &ndashꦓ; the more colourful, the better.