I have already so much to say about the extraterritoriality, the clash with modernity, gender and agency, but for now, I can't wait to get back to it, because it's such a stellar game...

Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse (2026)

Genuinely flabbergasted. Say what you will about the creative choices they've made in their releases—and I have, plenty—this is throwing away a crazy amount of institutional knowledge when of Sony's most esoteric consoles. Profound mismanagement, especially if they're paying for Jim Ryan's mistakes.

JPP is pleased to announce the launch of A World of Edo Art. This web portal, spearheaded Linda Hoaglund (director, Edo Avant Garde), brings together 200+ captivating Edo-period (1603–1868) artworks related to animals and nature from around the world. edoart.japanpastandpresent.org

The Moon wants to go home. 🌕 "The Moon Looks Beautiful Tonight: Definitive Edition", a PC98 inspired yuri VN, will be releasing for free Q1 2026.

#aceattorney #franziskavonkarma

Fantastic thread from Katrina! Here's some video game examples to back up what she's saying. If a video game translated in 1990 (which had one of the Japanese developers checking every single line to confirm accuracy) can manage to properly translate 「」, so can you! (thread: 1/10)

saw someone asking why avemygo were enormous hits in in the yuriscene especially in asia if they "weren't explicitly yuri and also tied to gacha games" and the thing is you're looking at the "fanworks/doujin" side of the scene. future GL artists & writers of original work will cut their teeth on it

sometimes it's kind of just the right place in the right time, and of course for stuff where the women are actually intimate. sulemio was this and cosmic princess kaguya is now this. conversely the phenomenon also happens in north america (kpdh's huntrix trio being the most popular GL ship here)

This is one of his last posts: "It appears I'm nearing my limit. I'm intensely aware of myself growing weaker each day. Please continue to support and show your love to Bloodstained 2, which will be released in the future, as well as the games I created." I will, Curry-san!

Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement creative director Shutaro Ida dies at age 52 Shutaro Ida, creative director behind the upcoming Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement, has died at age 52 after a one-and-a-half years battle with cancer, developer ArtPlay announced.

Pour la publication de la semaine sur Aëdemphia, je vous propose quelques images d'endroits que vous pourrez visiter lorsque le jeu sortira (gratuitement)... Plus tard cette année!

🏞️ LES CENTS VUES D'UTAGAWA arrive enfin ! 📚 Déjà annoncée lors de la révélation de la collection consacrée à la grande Akimi Yoshida, sa toute dernière série, Les Cents Vues d'Utagawa (Utagawa Hyakkei en VO), paraîtra chez nous le 4 mars ! Un bijou qu'il nous tarde de vous faire découvrir 🥰👇

D4 Enterprise is spotted preparing to bring their EGG Console ports to the PC platform Steam, starting with the 1985 PC-8801mkIISR version of Hydlide 3: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19602-d4-enterprise-prepares-to-bring-egg-console-ports-to-steam-starting-with-hydlide-3-pc-8801mkiisr-port

✨COVER REVEAL✨ Mapping Medical Modernity: Urban Space and Public Health in Tokyo, 1868-1920 by Susan Burns explores the history of medical modernization and public health in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tokyo. Details & preorder: upittpress.org/books/978082...

The more we get information, the clearer it becomes that there's this underlying tension between traditional local economy, culture and tourism. And I'm completely here for that.

Bluetear’s wand 🪄💧💙 #art #illustration #wand

La suite de l'histoire de Gainax est disponible un peu plus tôt que prévu ! Un gros article qui revient sur la diffusion de "Neon Genesis Evangelion", la fin de sa production et celle des films "Death and Rebirth" et "The End of Evangelion". N'hésitez pas à partager en masse !

Omission of special-needs graduates from official Japanese government data about the country's "18-year-old population" does not appear to reflect deliberate exclusion, but it nevertheless carries negative symbolic and practical consequences.

The movement to remove voice actor who has admitted to sexual assault has Yakuza fans at their breaking point: aftermath.site/yakuza-kiwami-...

Detective Conan theorem: If there's a woman I find attractive within the three suspects, she's the culprit.

Team LGBTQ powered Team USA to its first gold medals of these Olympics. Breezy Johnson won gold in women's downhill. Then Amber Glenn helped win the figure skating team event. www.outsports.com/2026/2/8/241...

New blog post! How did Jaleco adapt their Mega System 1 hardware to the needs of mahjong? And the plot of this game is... what? Mahjong Daireikai! nicole.express/2026/spooky-...

It's such a good reminder, because even as someone that prefers to talk less about gameplay than cultural representational choices, it's obvious that every game design element is situated and tells something about its context and the world around it.

Completed map.

NHK has the LDP one seat short of a 310-seat supermajority, something the LDP has never done.

marx's criticism of both hegelian-influenced civil-service antipolitics and the bourgeois republic form remains relevant here. political freedom is the form but without social freedom it cannot be the content. marx in many ways was a theorist of spectral relations: value theory and social life

I think this is one side of her two-pronged approach to power. Foster the honeymoon glow by pursuing nationalistic cultural populism (since fiscal populism was not really endorsed, see VAT on food). And then work on her industrial consolidation and regionalism to make Japan a powerhouse again.

I can't believe her gambit worked, and the opposition is just, like literally dead...

Yes. 1. Japan has run out of fiscal room. Debt means depreciation means inflation. 2. Takaichi has vibed change, but her actual policy scheme "investment" is reheated LDP/Abeism. 3. FPTP super-majorities fail all the time. See 2005-2009, 2009-2012. Abe's relied on indolence post 2015.

The end of an era in real time.

I just constantly come back to this post. The LDP learned from this. The CDP...did not. observingjapan.substack.com/p/the-year-j...

My big question at this point is how the LDP interprets their win. Do they see this as a strategic vindication of Takaichi’s conservative vision and spike the football like they did after she won the LDP presidency? Do they see this as only a tactical win following the opposition collapse?

Thinking about the friends and acquaintances with non-Japanese roots I've seen crying and expressing anxiety about the rise of xenophobic politics, as I wait impatiently for the exit polls.

Even among young people who say they lean to the left, 30% voted for LDP hmmm

Well, Takaichi's popularity, a remake of 2012, what do you want me to say? Welcome to the Takaichi years after the interregnum.

IT'S COMING! I'm stoked to announce the upcoming English translation patch for the PS1 Lovecraft-inspired horror RPG "Ningyo no rakuin", now named "The Curse of Ogaeritō"! ETA? When It's Done™ (soon!) Stay tuned for more updates! #NingyoNoRakuin #FanTranslation #PS1 #Retrogaming

Announcing Chicory: A Musical Tale! Releasing March 7th~ I'm delighted to collaborate with @resonantunion.bsky.social, Wishes Unlimited, and a host of talented collaborators on a 32-track arrange album releasing across four discs. It's a real dream project & I can't wait to reveal more!!

I do share the sentiment to some extent, but mostly with the caveat that most of the current solutions are seen as reinforcing the body of the nation through enthnonationalism. Like, I do think that falling birth rates are problematic in countries where it becomes impossible to sustain solidarity >

A deadly encounter on the streets of 21st Century Kyoto in the wake of devastation from an earthquake that also unleashed a horde of demons - and magic back into the world. A point-and-click and RPG hybrid that received an English translation in 2019. 📺: Makyouden, Nihon-Create, 1992 (PC-9801)

Square Enix has shared new screenshots and information for Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse, detailing story, characters, and gameplay systems: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19556-screenshots-for-paranormasight-the-mermaids-curse-detail-story-characters-gameplay-systems

On ne s'en rend pas forcément compte, mais le Tone-gawa ne se déversait pas du tout dans le Pacifique (img 1 du post cité). Le 利根川東遷事業 est un tel projet qu'il a fallu plusieurs siècles pour solidifier sa trajectoire. Au point où reconstruire l'histoire des plus petits cours d'eau est une gageure.

1/5 Concernant la vidéo sur l'histoire de Tokyo, un point important était consacré aux destructions successives de de la ville, mais peu sur sa construction, et notamment les terrassements, qui ont autant si ce n'est plus modifié l'aspect de la ville. Observons par exemple ces cartes (lire les ALT).

And everyone can now read this piece on Softstar's Sword and Fairy 4, an admirably thoughtful RPG that dares to question and then challenge some important narrative pillars of the genre: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/02/06/s...

[NEW VIDEO] Ico, Design by Subtraction & Meta-Physical Art. A dive into the design ideals and aesthetics of Ico as well as other texts that share some fun aspects. SHARES AND REPOSTS GREATLY APPRECIATED THANK YOU!

Anyway, Microsoft's gaming products are subject to a boycott from the BDS movement, due to Microsoft's ongoing support for the IDF. Bethesda is owned by Microsoft. nogamesforgenocide.com

I can't remotely explain how happy it makes me. The original game made me shift my main research topics, and it believes it is within the most interesting representative of the new blend of shakai-ha detective fiction. We knew they worked on the follow-up, but I wasn't expecting a shadowdrop...

What do you mean there's a new Paranormasight in two weeks................

i'll need to read this book eventually but i'm curious about how much the success of what is termed "messy & unplanned" in the urban space is itself a kind of democratization of the space through ways citydwellers negotiate moments of encounter in shared life. something something guy debord

trying to read augé and de certeau for worldbuilding game design and