#nihone

[ysociety]

[ether--net]

[nihonbeauty]

[obsessedbyneon]

The Nichigeki (Nippon) Japan Theater in Sukiyabashi, Tokyo, 1978. This iconic Art Deco building survived World War 2 but existed from 1933 until 1981. It's replacement didn't last long, it was shut down in 2018.

Above: 1975, when Jaws premiered.

Above: the theater around 1963.

[sylvanswordstress]

"Brandish" for NEC PC-98. Nihon Falcom, 1991.

[vgadvisor]

[alinalal-art]

trails in the sky

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

Brandish 4/ VT

[theyshapedlikefriends]

The hjbuh and the nerpa

[chuckuddin]

Scherazard

[ysociety]

walking in the rain

[ether--net]

[nihonbeauty]

Early summer in Japan by Hisa

[bowloflentils]

I think it's really cute that the Dawn of Ys Guide Book contains an illustrated prologue of two kids reading about Adol's adventures. They appear to be the same children that appear at the very end of the game, with the red haired boy implied to be the son of Lilia and Adol.

[masky-arts]

Trails in the Sky remake was just announced recently!!

[ukgk]

there a couple of textures featuring Nini-tan/Sakura (Ukagaka's first default ghost) hidden inside the game files for Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (Windows)(2003) and Ys: The Oath in Felghana (Windows) (2005) developed by Nihon Falcom.

the test map tiles featuring Nini-tan titled TEST1-1.png and TEST2.png were found in a folder titled 'hidden'.

in The Ark of Naphishtim the texture is featured on the walls of 2 unused maps, S_HIDDEN0 and S_HIDDEN2. the maps lack proper boundaries

in Oath of Felghana it's used again in (a slightly different) unused debug map, S_HIDDEN0

they're probably not intended to be seen during normal gameplay, presumably put there at some point by a developer who uses Ukagaka as placeholders for debugging purposes and leftover in later Windows Ys games from Ys VI. the rooms remain in Ys Origin but with the Nini/Sakura image removed.

source: (★) , (★), (★) (initially discovered by 'koa' from the Ancient Ys Forums back in 2009)