Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Creator Drops Brain Alive Manga Where a Father Fights Slavic Beasts in Dream Inception
Rafał Jaki, the executive producer behind the hit anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, has teamed up with artist MACHINE GAMU to launch a brand-new manga titled Brain Alive. Debuting on Kadokawa’s KadoComi website, the project is already accessible to international fans via a free English pilot chapter shared directly by the creator. While the full digital English serialization won’t officially kick off until this fall, readers can dive into the launch right now alongside the Japanese release.
A Love Letter to Inception and Soulsborne Packed with Slavic Beasts and Japanese Yokai
Described by Jaki as his personal love letter to Inception and Soulsborne games, Brain Alive follows a high-stakes, surreal premise: a father named Daniel must magically enter the dreams of his comatose son—who was severely injured in an accident—to save him. Inside the boy’s subconscious, Daniel faces off against a nightmarish gauntlet of Slavic beasts and Japanese yokai in a desperate race against time to wake him up before it’s too late.
