Ogre Run
Criticism on Japanese Role-Playing Games and Otaku Culture.
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- May 2026
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August 29, 2026
As the story goes, Umitsuki Production’s Love Escalator (ラブ・エスカレーター,1998) was slated for an earlier release date but was continually postponed. The July 1997 issue of Bug Bug magazine reported the game as being 78% completed. 1 Two months later, E-Login touched upon the game’s various delays and…
August 15, 2026
In contrast to the realism of Emmy (Kogado, 1985) and Tokyo Nanpa Street (Enix, 1985), Cocktail Soft’s Can Can Bunny (1989) opts for a slightly more fantastical approach. The game opens with the protagonist Takeshi (タケシ) wallowing in his loneliness when he is suddenly visited by Arisu (亜理子), a…
July 27, 2026
In 1984, what was the state of Japan’s domestic RPG industry? Landmark media that shaped the genre, such as the video game Dragon Quest (Chunsoft) and the serialized replay Record of Lodoss War (Group SNE), were still two years away. Even D&D was still a year away from receiving its official…
