In this experience, you are thrust onto a platform that gives you different options of different One Piece scenes to explore from many different points throughout the manga’s history. Once you made your pick, you were able to grab and closely admire the beautiful colored artwork as if you were holding it in your hands! There were plenty to choose from, but time was limited since there was a line of fans waiting for the experience. Besides being able to get close and personal with Eiichiro Oda’s artwork, you can also put together a 3D Chopper puzzle by grabbing the pieces and turning them and adjusting them in order to put them together!

The JUMP Cube experience was very much like the One Piece Cube, except you had the option of interacting with illustrations from 5 different Shonen JUMP titles, including Bleach and Naruto. This one also included a puzzle. This time you had to put Bleach’s dirty-minded plush lion KON together.

The art gallery, was just that. Players were immersed in an art gallery with beautiful artwork from top-rated JUMP manga titles, and unlike in a real gallery, one had the chance to get close and personal with the art!

Probably one of the most popular titles in the booth, the Death Note VR Escape Game was one of the most exciting. Players were in the role of Death Note’s Misa, who is trapped with Rem in a basement that is filling up with water. By looking around and interacting both with Rem and the environment, players needed to find a way out!

Shueisha wasn’t the only one with fun VR titles, though, some others developers brought their games as well!

Kodansha didn’t fall far behind with their offering either! In Hop Step Sing, not only did you get to watch cute idol performances, but also dive into music videos and feel like an idol yourself! Or just like a very close spectator if that’s what you’re into.

Another popular title at the booth was ChainMan. Created by Ouka-ichi-mon, this stealth horror adventure VR game, ChainMan, has made them one of the leading developers in Virtual Reality experiences. In ChainMan, you were thrust into a dark world where you must escape from and evade zombies. Based on messages and clues, you must find your way out, without getting caught by the zombies of course! Not for the faint of heart!

Another idol VR game was Cosplay Cast by COVER Corp. In this one, you get to be the idol! You can come up with your own show and performances and even have your own idol interviews.

FullDive novel by MyDearest Inc. is exactly what it sounds like, you are fully immersed into a light novel. The light novel in the demo was Innocent Forest, which is about a forest where people’s memories turn into birds and fly away from the cages in people’s hearts. You get to experience this first-hand when you meet a girl in just that situation.

This was another big hit at the VR booth. Pairing the Oculus with a moving saddle, Circle Hydrangea’s work in progress put you smack in the middle of a dragon war. With the player riding on the back of a dragon, one can shoot fireballs at incoming attacks from enemy dragons. The addition of fans in front of the game station made the feeling of flying on a dragon’s back all the more realistic! This one seems like it would be perfect for an arcade VR experience.

ship of EYLN + MiCROViSiON Inc brought their A game as well, with their prototype version of Medusa and Man. A VR game with local multiplayer capabilities, you can play as both Medusa and the Man. However, Medusa’s stone gaze will affect her partner as well, so you have to be careful not to get him turned into stone. It’s challenging and fun, and it was only the prototype, so it shows much promise.

Besides the VR Manga Creator, KAIT Shirai Lab also brought one of the oddest VR experiences to the floor with Real Baby - Real Family. In this game, you can create your own “realistic” baby from a photo and then use the VR gear to hold it and care for it in the VR nursery. Designed to give people the experience of holding and caring for a baby, the AI is programed to react like a real baby would. This one was interesting, to say the least.

A collaboration between KAIT Shirai Lab and Progmind Inc. with the support of Shueisha, the Manga Generator is less of a VR title than the rest. However, it still managed to immerse the players into their favorite manga. Literally! With the use of the Kinect system, players could choose their favorite manga scene from the available choices and become a part of it. And you could even have it printed out for posterity! We could go into detail here, but a picture is worth a thousand words, so take a look at the Honey’s team in a showdown with Zoro from One Piece!