If you're a UK-based fan of extremely niche multimedia tie-ins to extremely popular video games, boy do I have some exciting news for you, you hella specific nerd: the fifth volume of the Animal Crossing: New Horizons manga goes on sale in the UK from today. Mind you, our American cousins have been able to go out and buy the English translation since mid-September, which might explain why my pre-ordered copy arrived a fortnight early, on account of how it's the exact same book; but still, it's nice to make it official. Maybe now I can actually read it without feeling vaguely criminal.
Subtitled Deserted Island Diary, the AC:NH manga series follows a quartet of human villagers — goofy everyman Coroyuki, know-nothing know-it-all Benben, token girl (sorry, princess) Himepoyo, and Guchan whose sole trait is that he is literally always asleep — as they experience that New Horizons life among the Animal Crossing characters we know and love. Volume 5 follows our heroes as they attempt to become more industrious and go to work at Paradise Planning, the setting of the game's sole paid add-on Happy Home Paradise. It's kind of odd to have an obvious marketing push for a two-year-old DLC taking place in a tie-in that most players didn't even know existed, but it's good fun all the same.
Before you assume that an AC:NH manga must be too kiddie to bother with, know that the humour on display here is often unexpectedly adult, albeit in a way designed to go over kids' heads (think The Simpsons rather than South Park). The best part is that from this perspective, Tom Nook emerges as a beleaguered only-sane-man among a cast of ridiculous idiots determined to blunder into every foolish situation they can invent, and it's the sympathetic backstory I'd never realised he needed.
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