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Cast Hiroyasu Ishida

Plot As the first creator who joined Studio Colorido, Ishida looks back at his career and works, from his short debut "Fumiko no Kokuhaku" made in university, to his first feature-length...

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Cast Fumihiko Yasuda · Hirohisa Kaneko · Yojiro Yoshimatsu · Naoto Takenaka

Plot What goes on the mind of a creator, months before the release of a new game? Around a series of conversations with Nioh 2 director & producer Fumihiko Yasuda, we...

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Cast Yoko Taro

Plot In this episode, we spend the day in Osaka with Yoko Taro, director of the famous Drakengard and NieR series. Our first stop will be at PlatinumGames, the studio that...

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Plot A portrait of Shingo Tamagawa, the talented animator behind the mysterious short animation film PUPARIA. He looks back at his motivations and emotions that led him to this project, in...

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Cast Yoshitaka Amano

Plot A portrait of Yoshitaka Amano, the character designer & illustrator legend behind the Final Fantasy series. We take a look at Amano's universe and career, his beginning as an animator...

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Cast Hiroshi Iuchi · Kenji Kanno · Masayoshi Kikuchi · Rieko Kodama

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Cast Yoshitaka Amano · Kazuko Shibuya

Plot 35 years ago, at the dawn of the Final Fantasy series, a collaboration was born between artist Yoshitaka Amano, taking his first steps in the game industry and striving illustrator...

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Cast Isamu Kamikokuryo

Plot Isamu Kamikokuryo is a veteran art director, who has worked at Square Enix for 18 years on the Final Fantasy series, starting with Final Fantasy X all the way up...

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Cast Fumito Ueda · Hideo Kojima · Tadanobu Asano · Yoot Saito

Plot Commemorating the 10th anniversary since Kenji Eno's sudden passing, we asked his colleagues, friends and family to reminisce on this unique creator. Always one step ahead in the game industry,...

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Cast Keiichi Okabe

Plot Keiichi Okabe is a music composer who started his career at Namco. He is renowned for his work on the NieR series and Drakengard 3 game soundtracks.

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Cast Shigenori Soejima

Plot A portrait of Atlus’ acclaimed character designer & illustrator Shigenori Soejima on his career and his work on the Persona series and Studio Zero’s first game, Catherine: Full Body.

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Cast Hiroyuki Takei

Plot In the outskirts of Tokyo, we had the chance to spend a day in the studio of Hiroyuki Takei, the mangaka behind the world-renowned Shaman King series. We dived into...

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Cast Kōji Igarashi · Yohei Kataoka

Plot Videogames industry veteran Koji 'IGA' Igarashi, who recently released "Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night", after a successful Kickstarter campaign held in 2015. As he reflects back on the story behind...

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Cast Shinichi Sakamoto

Plot Known for his work on mountain climibing manga “Kokou no Hito” (also known as "The Climber" or "Ascension") or “Innocent”, set in the French Revolution, Shinichi Sakamoto is a mangaka...

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Cast Shinji Mikami

Plot For his 30th career anniversary, we met Shinji Mikami, one of the most prolific creators and contributors to the game industry. Over a long interview, he told us about his...