Gamerz Heaven
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Plot
The story follows young gamer Kaito Suzuki, who one day discovers a video game that transports the player to a different dimension. Upon reaching this strange new world, Kaito discovers a boy known as the "navigator", aptly dubbed "Nata". Kaito soon discovers that everything that happens in the game affects the real world, which. Since Gamerz Heaven is a beta version, Kaito has a limited number of saves.
Soon after starting the game, Kaito is attacked by the class president, Ogura. Ogura falls to Kaito and vanishes from the Second Zone. Afterwards, no one believes that Ogura ever existed except for Kaito's best friend Kawashima, who loves video games just as much as Kaito. Later, Kaito eventually convinces his other friends, Rio and Ren, who did not believe him until a "meteor" hits the center of Tokyo, which was actually the work of the first area boss of Gamerz Heaven, Rush.
Publication
Written and illustrated by Maki Murakami, the series began serialization in Mag Garden's Script error: No such module "lang". manga magazine Monthly Comic Blade magazine on September 30, 2002.Template:Efn It completed its serialization in Monthly Comic Blade in 2005.[1] Its individual chapters were collected into four Script error: No such module "lang". volumes.[2]
In March 2004, ADV Manga announced that they licensed the series for English publication.[3]
Volumes
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | April 10, 2003[4] | Template:ISBNT | November 23, 2004[5] | Template:ISBNT |
| 2 | October 10, 2003[6] | Template:ISBNT | February 22, 2005[7] | Template:ISBNT |
| 3 | April 10, 2004[8] | Template:ISBNT | — | — |
| 4 | April 10, 2005[2] | Template:ISBNT | — | — |
Reception
Mike Dungan of Mania praised the story, characters, and artwork, particularly the character designs.[9] Liann Cooper of Anime News Network felt that Murakami improved her character designs from Gravitation. However, Cooper felt the series was "not especially poor, not especially good...just kind of there".[10] In Manga: The Complete Guide, Jason Thompson praised the artwork, though he felt the story was "confusing and dull".[1]
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