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I was looking for manga adaptations of the _Rising of the Shield Hero_ story
and noticed something odd. Or at least something I haven't run into before.

The tittle of the manga was often appended with the qualifier "The Manga
Companion", like on
[Amazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1935548700). I also saw
the following phrase repeated some some stores:

> This is the Manga companion to the Ultimate Light novel series.

What does the "companion" qualifier mean in this context?  
Is it common for a manga adaptation of a light novel to have this qualifier?  
Does it imply that the manga isn't intended to sand on its own, or am I just
reading too much into the word?


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Why does the Shield Hero manga have the qualifier "The Manga Companion"?


In short, this was done by the publisher to prevent confusion, by indicating
that it is the Manga companion to the original light novel.

Currently the light novel is sold under the same name, without the appended
"The Manga Companion" which given the similar covers might lead to people
buying the light novel when they intended to buy the manga, and vice versa.

As to why they chose "The Manga Companion" specifically over just "manga", I
wouldn't know. Only _One Peace Books_ would be able to tell us that.


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