Cool Cats Releases Second Chapter of NFT-Inspired Manga Series

This newest launch follows the debut of the Cool Cats manga collection final month, which was created in collaboration with Kodansha and San FranTokyo. 

The collection brings to life a few of the key characters from the Cool Cats NFT assortment, together with the undertaking’s mascot, Blue Cat. The story is ready within the whimsical world of Sapphire City and is illustrated by Yuuma Natsuna. 

The primary chapter, titled “Welcome to Sapphire City,” was launched on July 15, with the next chapters set to be launched month-to-month. Whereas the manga is at present out there solely on-line, a bodily e book launch is deliberate throughout Japan later this yr.

This manga collection represents considered one of a number of initiatives Cool Cats has undertaken outdoors of the NFT house. 

Final November, the undertaking launched “The Milk Chug,” a cartoon collection on YouTube that includes its NFT characters briefly animated episodes. Extra just lately, in April, Cool Cats launched the “Coloration Me Cool” initiative, which allowed NFT holders to customise statues by portray them. These custom-made statues had been then digitally recreated. 

In Might, the undertaking held its annual artwork contest referred to as “Clontest,” the place artists had been invited to depict characters from “The Milk Chug” collection. Prizes for the competition included invaluable NFTs.

Cool Cats, which launched in 2021, is a set of 9,999 hand-illustrated cartoon characters, every with distinctive traits generated algorithmically. The undertaking has rapidly gained prominence throughout the NFT house. In keeping with information from CoinMarketCap, the gathering has an all-time buying and selling quantity of 157,959 ETH, equal to over $416 million, with a present flooring worth of 0.26 ETH, roughly $685.