Dragon Quest has finally met their 30th-year of anniversary. It is considered one of the highly anticipated role-playing video games in Japan, with over 50 million combined sales. The amazing game series was mainly sold limitedly in Japan because of the low number of sales in foreign countries. Fortunately, after advertising Dragon Quest heroes 2 for PS4, some moderate success started to be relatively noticed in the west.

The publisher of the game Square-Enix was aiming for a distinctive way to promote this important game. Instead of hanging posters around the subway, they used blackboard as the canvas. The whole length was specifically manufactured as being longer than the normal school blackboards. With a total of 46 feet in length, enough to summon all the memorable creatures above.

The artist behind this beautiful artwork is Rena, who was a recent college graduate that performed the Dark Soul III blackboard art a few months ago, and the time-lapse of its creation was mesmerizing enough to make you drop your popcorn. However, better than before, now she gets to draw her own favorite video game, the Dragon Quest! The development had no 3rd party interference besides being given a long blackboard in an open space basement, plus a simple white chalk. Other than that, it is all about her and her own use of imagination.

Drawing concept:

Instead of focusing on the main Dragon Quest heroes like Luceus, she thinks the villain side is more interesting to be memorized. Such as slimes, skeletons, shadows, and mummies, in a way to give back memories to the fans of the monsters they had fought with.

She never thought the creation would take over a month, but it apparently did. In the meantime, the fans had given her some pressure that she felt it wasn’t only about drawing for her own interest, but also for someone else. Finally, she finished retouching her favorite evil villain.

She was exhausted but happy for the work that she had accomplished, though, despite hoping to cover all the creatures, there wasn't enough space.., so she added some tiny versions of them in the back.

The Dragon Quest blackboard art has now moved into Tokyo’s Shinjuku subway station as a free exhibit to anyone who passes by. Of course, we can easily expect the extremely polite culture in Japan wouldn’t bother to ruin it, and will fully appreciate the dedicated artwork that Rena created.