Introduction on The New Gate

ABOUT

Have you ever had the satisfaction of grinding your levels higher than others, gathering epic loots and even beating monsters and going on raids? "The New Gate" is a manga with the elements of RPG style and fantasy setting. Well, this manga is the level that goes beyond the boundaries the game was originally designed. Here, the story has been set to the distant future 500 years later, after "The Dusk of The Majesty" was marked as the end of the old generation and the introduction of the new generation. However, the new generation seems to be lacking with common professions and crafts, also the quality of items was either scarce or forgotten.

Now let's focus on the protagonist and three of his companions.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION

1.Shinya Kiritani:
A veteran player who has top class combat ability. He defeats the last boss in the online game "The New Gate" and releases tens of thousands of players that had been trapped inside.
After defeating the last boss, he gets swallowed up by a strange light and he finds himself inside the game, 500 years into the future.
Shinya or "Shin" for short, is a "High Human" at level 255 but hides the fact that he is way stronger than most characters and monsters. He is skilled in mostly close-combat and a little in magic, but his special class is a blacksmith. So he can enchant items of all kind. He is on his own quest to seek out info about this new world and also a way out of it. Because of the incident with the last boss, he couldn't log out from the game. So now he has to do whatever he can in order to survive in the fantasy game world.

Shin is the owner of the Tsuki no Hokora or the Moon Shrine, where he does his blacksmith work and enchant items.

1. Schnee Raizar:
   She is a silvered-haired, blue-eyed Elf. She was originally Shin's support character who helps him in every quest. But after Shin's disappearance, she kept searching for him, her master in all corners of the continent. From then on she is the strongest Elf, feared by all nations because of her supreme level and abilities. If she was ever to be offended by anyone, let alone any king, she could annihilate the whole kingdom of anyone who dares to.
   Schnee is the acting manager at the Tsuki no Hokora, awaiting for Shin's return.

1. Tiera Lucent:
   Unlike Schnee, Tiera belongs to the new generations. She was tragically cursed with an aura that attracts nearby monsters to her way. Which is why it also turned her silver hair into pitch black. She was considered a misfortune, a cursed child, and later banished from her own village. She was taken in by Schnee who took her under her care and to run the Tsuki no Hokora as a Store Clark in Schnee's absence, surrounded by a protective barrier from monsters. She later meets Shin only to find out he was the real manager of the Tsuki no Hokora.

1. Yuzuha:
   It is a legendary elemental-tailed fox who was rescued by Shin in one of his quests. She is so fond of her that she likes to pounce on his head whatever the situation. Hence, her level rose faster whenever Shin is in a battle due to sharing of exp. She is considered to be a mascot character within the party.
   Her abilities include barrier, multi-element user, and a shapeshifter. She prefers a form of a girl to move around as childish as ever. She is still not to be messed with.

MY THOUGHTS

The elements in this manga are really strong with the message and emotion. As well as the art which was drawn is, by far, very beautifully depicted with the emotions expressed by each character when we least expect it. The message is deep, easily ensnaring our own presence.

I really enjoyed this manga because it made me read it more than three times, it never gets old. Again the message in the manga felt so closely related to our reality. I hope to see the rest of the chapters and more works of the authors Yoshiyuki Miwa and Shinogi Kazanami.