Volume 2 and part 6 of the Aurion fantasy comic are finally available. The initiatory journey of the Kori-Odan carries on here, with more than 250 colored pages full of epic adventures, "badass" battles and existential dilemmas with a rare intensity.
This December 03, 2020, Kiro'o Games reveals the much-awaited volume 2 collector's edition of the colorful fantasy comic Aurion: The Legacy of the Kori-Odan. The release of part 6 of this fantasy comic completes volume 2, which now includes three parts (parts 4, 5 and 6). One year after the release of the first volume Aurion, Kiro'o is back with the rest of his comic, something to satisfy his entire community.
While in volume 1 the readers discovered the beginning of the saga of the Kori-Odan couple, punctuated by strong rivalries and the crisis of a military coup, in volume 2 the story highlights the candor and courage of our heroes facing the sometimes-cruel realities of life outside the cocoon of the city of Zama.
Here, the authors offer a real visual and narrative step up in the quality of their masterpiece :
- An even more dynamic staging of the combat scenes to allow readers to easily animate each confrontation ;
- A progression in the volume of dialogues with more reflections on human paradoxes;
- Scenes of Afro-Fantasy sets magnified to offer to the readers more moments of contemplation ;
- A real dive in the Nubian mythology to densify this fantasy universe of Aurion.
Aurion, a new genre of fantasy comic?
If the story of Aurion draws its inspiration from African mythology, the fact remains that in this comic strip, Kiro'o got their inspiration from Shônen manga and comics to build his genre.
Indeed, Aurion feeds on both the manga style and the comic style, and enhances itself with a certain creative freedom, coming from both the authors and the community :
- The staging of the combat scenes, the dynamism of the movements, and even more, the exploitation of some manga tropes (disproportion of the actions, names of the technics, chibi gags etc.) all pay tribute to the manga.
- On the other hand, in Aurion, we also find quite a number of western comic book tropes, such as color illustrations, the asymmetries of the boxes, the typical features of comic characters, or a narrative well centered on socio-cultural themes (tribalism, military coup).
"Aurion is a love letter to both manga and comic book creators out there with a touch of African ideologies." Says Willy Essombe, an artist at the studio.
From PC Game to Manga: Aurion joins the club of Trans-Media Made in Africa licenses!
Video game critics are unanimous: Aurion, the first Afro-Fantasy Action-RPG, is a masterpiece for the quality of the scenario and the story. By developing Aurion in a fantasy comic format, the goal of Kiro’o Games was clearly to:
- Showcase this world of Afro-Fantasy to a larger community;
- Prove to viewers and potential partners that a product made in Africa can have a future as strong as those of the big houses of global entertainment can.
“Kiro'o Games has always had the medium and long term objective of becoming a capital pole of African Entertainment. Therefore, it seemed important to us to make Aurion, a cross-platform project as the universe has a huge potential,” says Yakan Dominique Lead Creative Designer of Kiro'o Games.
No African creation has ever succeeded in this challenge: to move from video games to a fantasy comic adaptation. Aurion would therefore be a strong license with a real Trans-media potential. With such a large universe, there would be enough to do even more: animated films, animated series, or even mobile games...
Moreover, an adaptation of Aurion as a mobile game is announced for the year 2021, details of this project will soon be revealed to the public.
Colored board, comic-style strokes, staging closer to Shônen for a writing oriented Seïnen African Fantasy. Aurion is definitely not a traditional Fantasy comic.
Aurion a writing that announces his anime?
An adaption into an anime is often the result of a captivating story immersed in a new and large universe. Aurion meets these conditions because if one explores only the Kori-Odan saga, the fantasy comic could be written over at least 200 chapters.
Kiro'o has already started to pre-write the other bows of the Aurionic history, which is what leads us to think that an Aurion anime could be born. The authors of Aurion are already building and cutting out the current fantasy comic as a giant storyboard of what the anime could represent.
While waiting for a potential anime version of Aurion, discover in exclusivity on Amazon:
- Volume 2 is a collector's edition of the Aurion fantasy comic including Parts 4, 5 and 6 ;
- [url= https://pixelfy.me/fantasy-comic-aurion-part6]Part 6 of the Aurion fantasy comic[/url] for those who have already read parts 4 and 5
- Part 5 of Aurion in comics with chapters 12, 13 and 14 and 100 colored pages.
Also, discover
- The free version of Aurion fantasy comic here for fantasy comic scan readers ;
- The A-RPG Aurion for Pc Gamers.