Puzzle & Dragons starts 2021 with Monogatari collab

GungHo Online’s Puzzle & Dragons Entertainment has secured yet another collaboration, this time with popular light novel/anime series Monogatari. Beginning on the 4th of January 2021, fresh new faces from said series make their maiden appearance in the Japanese version of the match-three puzzle game. They are:

• Koyomi Araragi
• Hitagi Senjougahara
• Mayoi Hachikuji
• Suruga Kanbaru
• Nadeko Sengoku
• Tsubasa Hanekawa
• Shinobu Oshino
• Karen Araragi
• Tsukihi Araragi
• Meme Oshino
• Deishuu Kaiki
• Yozuru Kagenui
• Yotsugi Ononoki
• Kiss-Shot

As per tradition, a new dungeon makes its way to the game during the collaboration. Clearing the “Monogatari Series Challenge” entitles players to a free roll in the Monogatari gacha and two Monogatari Series Collab Medal – Rainbow, which is the Monster Exchange token.

Getting Tsubasa Hanekawa also comes with a unique orb skin, as seen below:

For those with cash to spare, Magic Stone + Gacha bundles are up for purchase in the in-game Shop. These are:

• 1 Magic Stone + Gacha Set (for 120 yen)
• 20 Magic Stones + Guaranteed Tsubasa Hanekawa Set (for 2440 yen)
• 20 Magic Stones + Guaranteed ★7 or above Set (for 2440 yen)

Note that these bundles are purchasable one-time only per bundle.

Outside of in-game goodies and rewards, an exclusive art book which contains the artwork used in this collab is the prize of a special raffle campaign! Players can take part in the raffle by clicking on the Campaign tab in-game. Only 100 lucky players in Japan will walk away with this collaboration art book.

Puzzle & Dragons has been extremely aggressive with their collaboration events this year, joining forces with the likes of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Atlus’s Persona video games. The puzzle game continues to be one of the most profitable mobile games in Japan, consistently having more than a million active players throughout the year.

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Puzzle & Dragons

Publisher: GungHo Online Entertainment

Release Date: 2012-01-15

Android, iOS

Puzzle & Dragons (パズル&ドラゴンズ, Pazuru Ando Doragonzu) is a puzzle video game with role-playing and strategy elements, developed and published by GungHo Online Entertainment for the iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire platforms. Puzzle & Dragons is a combination of two types of gameplay: tile matching and a monster collecting RPG. Players create teams by picking from the over 6000 different monsters they can acquire within the game and then play dungeons where they solve a tile-matching puzzle that determines how powerful their monsters' attacks are on waves of enemy monsters.

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