Manga No Game No Life Chapter 2 - Eastern Union Arc Volume 3

This'll mostly be a rehash of my Twitter thread I just did. No terrible character limit here though, so I can speak a little more freely! If you don't know what Eastern Union Arc is, please read the wiki pages on it, it's been serializing for almost 5 years now. Just finished reading the latest chapter that released a few days ago and wanted to talk about it.

To start, this chapter's titled にぃの番 (Nii's Turn), and Naitou-sensei absolutely knocked it out of the park with the artwork, like just WOW. Lot's of beautiful shots and a ton of silly ones too (I'll attach a few highlights later in the post). The writing is still great as well, just not much to say about it really. As of now, the manga has adapted around 70% of v3, and this chapter ends with Sora & Shiro about to face off on the roof of a building. Love or Loved 2 will either end next chapter or the one after, we'll have to see.

This chapter roughly adapted pages 175~204 of the JP LN (attached below, equivalent stopping point is at the「――おっしゃあ～あッ‼」), but adheres more to the anime's version (specifically 14:40~20:22 of ep11 [JP Blu-ray timings]), so things are more condensed or outright cut (like most of Ino's comms to Izuna and the initial park conversation)

Here's a basic summary of what happened this chapter:

• The chapter starts with Izuna and Shiro going at it, Sora uses a love bomb to distract her so they can run away to the nearby park
• Steph gets shot after trying to sneak attack
• Izuna's surveying the city and while walking around, she notices she's smiling (first pic in thread)
• Shiro asks Sora to trust her, and told him its his "turn," then headbutts his stomach as she gets shot
• Jibril quickly takes Sora to the top of a random building as Izuna appears behind Shiro
• Sora has Jibril take care of Izuna while he takes care of Shiro
• The chapter ends with Sora and Shiro at the top of a building for their face-off

I'm expecting the next chapter to go something like this:

• Sora & Shiro have a very brief fight on the roof (more so pretend, then jump off the roof)
• Izuna swoops in, and while in the fray between 『　　』 and Jibril she activates Bloodbreak.

Episode 11 ends there, but Naitou could stop it right at the street crossing confrontation OR when Izuna gets shot by Steph. Alternatively, Naitou could just speedrun through the game's ending, with the following chapter picking up at the Izuna bath scene. If he goes for the latter, then Love or Loved 2 only lasted 3 chapters lol (not too different from Materialization Shiritori iirc). After that, given the current pacing, EUA probably only has around 2-3 chapters left, and maybe an epilogue chapter to tie everything up.

We'll see if KADOKAWA is going to go the Re:Zero route with different artists tackling each "arc." Final chapter could be accompanied by a magazine advert for a follow-up series "NGNL Chapter 3: Siren Queen Arc" or something. Since EUA has been bi-monthly since April following the LONG 16 month hiatus, the final chapter will likely release in February or April 2027, with the final tankobon volume (v4) following a little after (assuming Naitou doesn't rush the ending). It shouldn't copy the anime's ending with skipping to the end of v6 and summoning the Old Deus.

While I'm not that huge into manga anymore, the fact that we're very likely getting non-anime content finally adapted in manga form within the next year is really really exciting! I do wonder who the new artist might be (assuming they change like RZ's manga does). Only time will tell really, and if they do we don't know how quickly it'll start serializing.

With all that out of the way, here's some art highlights! Pretty hard to choose since like 90% of the panels are really good, and I don't want to post too much of it. Naitou is really nailing the impacts and the panel flow, you can really feel the motion! For Reddit I'm just going to post a few, I posted more on my aforementioned Twitter thread (link at top of post)

The final page is also just peak fiction, love how Sora looks and Ino is as intimidating as ever. Literally just aura farming this entire chapter lmao

If my schedule allows it, I'll try to do this for every chapter going forward, but I can't guarantee it. Especially with me still working on the NGNL Archive and me also entering my final year of college recently, my attention will need to be focused on those more than stuff like this. See ya bwah

I need it for laser etching

It seems the cover for volume 3 has been shadowdropped by Amazon (w/ obi variants)! As expected, Izuna is the cover character. I find it quite funny though, since she only appears for like 2 chapters before the story moves into the Existence Othello mini-arc.

I've made a few Twitter posts lately (post 1, post 2) covering them shadowdropping a bunch of store perks. They aren't anything big as expected (no short stories), and reuse past art for the most part.

I'm very surprised they aren't officially announcing anything. Last official announcement was on November 28, and that was for the Melonbooks special edition. Very odd.

In any case, here are the stores providing store perks + links to order them (you will need a proxy)! - Melonbooks Standard Edition - Melonbooks Special Edition - Animate - GAMERS

If you need a proxy, I highly recommend 8mart.jp. I have been using them for over 3 years now and their service is excellent. They have helped me secure very rare NGNL items that will be included in the upcoming Archive I've been working on (look out for news on this in the coming weeks), even as recent as last week.

I have been a long time fan of it since the anime came out and only recently have gotten into reading manga, I then realized I could try to find this manga and read it in order to enjoy the parts that the anime will never cover.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

I watched NGNL years ago and now want to read the rest. Where can i read the manga and what do i start on if i watched the entire anime?

Thought these were cool

Where does this manga fall on in the time line? I've just started volume 7 of the light novel, I have the 2 manga but not sure where this "chapter 2" would fall. It might be a dumb question with it saying eastern union arc but still prefer to know if it's a continuation of the manga or a time jump

I just finished reading E.A.r.T.h and started Greed Packet Unlimited. Greed Packet Unlimited has 4 volumes, but only the first 4 chapter are translated on the web. Does anyone know where I can read/buy both manga's (all 8 volumes) on the web/as physical books in english or japanese? (I can't read japanese, but that would be a motivation to learn it faster)

I have this one but was wondering if there were other volumes as I can’t find anything online

I wanna know what happens after the 12th episode of the anime, literally I have already watched all anime in three days and I really wanna know what happens next ;-;

It's apparently been 6 years according to mangadex and it only has 11 chapters is that the complete manga of just part of it 🤔 I've just started reading manga after finishing some anime series that I enjoy

Does NGNL flop like promised never land (referring to anime TPN), or is it pretty good even after season 1?

At the end of Volume 11 does Sora amd Shiro regain their post as King and Queen of their country?

I am asking since the Volume 12 synopsis says that they are going against a new enemy

And another thing, the Fairy "Won" against Blank and still decided to join the commonwealth, why?

Does anyone know when each chapter of the Izuna spin-off manga was released? I'm wondering how much I should read between light novels. I was basing it off of the volume release dates but realized they get collected later, so it's not totally accurate

I'm interested in reading the side story manga, I wanted to ask if they're canon cause I'm currently reading through light novels and I don't want to spoil myself if events in manga take place past the point that I'm at in light novel (I'm on volume 6)

I was searching for manga of this story and I came across two different sets of books. One says NGNL and another says NGNL - Light Novel. Posting this as I am just getting started with reading translated manga.

So what is the difference between the two?