Nintendo DS Game Wants To Teach You How To Draw Manga

Amateur mangaka grab your styli! Columbia Music Entertainment has a manga drawing game for the Nintendo DS.

It’s called Let’s Mangaka DS Style and the genre is “becoming a manga artist adventure”. In this game players are a manga assistant at a comic publishing house and actually draw manga on the touch screen to move forward. Let’s Mangaka DS Style has 550 things for you to draw and an option to make original works. These can be shared wirelessly with up to four players.

You can unlock accessories and clothes to customize your manga artist avatar as you progress. Dress stylishly and you might get a cool boyfriend – the product description actually mentions that.

Let’s Mangaka DS Style comes out in Japan on July 29.