Japanese Role-Playing Games

Japanese Role-Playing Games
Author: Rachael Hutchinson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793643555

Japanese Role-playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant formal elements as well as narrative themes, character construction, and player involvement. Contributors from Japan, Europe, North America, and Australia employ a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze popular game series and individual titles, introducing an English-speaking audience to Japanese video game scholarship while also extending postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text. In a three-pronged approach, the collection uses these analyses to look at genre, representation, and liminality, engaging with a multitude of concepts including stereotypes, intersectionality, and the political and social effects of JRPGs on players and industry conventions. Broadly, this collection considers JRPGs as networked systems, including evolved iterations of MMORPGs and card collecting “social games” for mobile devices. Scholars of media studies, game studies, Asian studies, and Japanese culture will find this book particularly useful.

The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games

The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games
Author: Felipe Pepe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2019-09
Genre: Computer games
ISBN: 9781999353308

Reviews over 400 seminal games from 1975 to 2015. Each entry shares articles on the genre, mod suggestions and hints on how to run the games on modern hardware.

The Sailor Moon Role-playing Game and Resource Book

The Sailor Moon Role-playing Game and Resource Book
Author: Mark C. MacKinnon
Publisher: Guelph, Ont. : Guardians of Order
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Fantasy games
ISBN: 9780968243114

Welcome to the ultimate English-language guide for one of the most popular Japanese anime shows of all times! Sailor Moon is a hit with boys and girls of all ages, and is watched on Cartoon Network's popular "Toonami" programming block every day by over one million viewers. This book offers a comprehensive Sailor Moon resource and reference section, including episode summaries, character bios, and series analysis in a clear and easy to read format.

Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Japanese Video Game Obscurities

Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Japanese Video Game Obscurities
Author: Kurt Kalata
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 178352765X

Japan has produced thousands of intriguing video games. But not all of them were released outside of the country, especially not in the 1980s and 90s. While a few of these titles have since been documented by the English-speaking video game community, a huge proportion of this output is unknown beyond Japan (and even, in some cases, within it). Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Japanese Video Game Obscurities seeks to catalogue many of these titles – games that are weird, compelling, cool or historically important. The selections represent a large number of genres – platformers, shoot-em-ups, role-playing games, adventure games – across nearly four decades of gaming on arcade, computer and console platforms. Featuring the work of giants like Nintendo, Sega, Namco and Konami alongside that of long-forgotten developers and publishers, even those well versed in Japanese gaming culture are bound to learn something new.

Maid

Maid
Author: Ryo Kamiya
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2014
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781495254888

Maid: The Role-Playing Game is a comedic take on a uniquely Japanese cultural icon: The fetishized modern maid. Injecting the concept of Maid with 50ccs of anime and comedy, the players take on the roles of maids, serving the master (played by the GM). Sheets are left unfolded and mantelpieces undusted when giant robots crash through the mansion, ninjas attack and kidnap the young master, and a demonic pit to Hell opens up in the pantry... and all before teatime! Play in the modern comedy setting, or mix it up with 9 additional settings including Victorian era, old Edo period, fantasy and post-apocalypse; and 6 genres including romance, horror, and action. Due to the rules system and random events that form the backbone of the Maid RPG, the game practically runs itself: Go from opening the book to playing a game with friends within just minutes! Three game styles in one: The traditional scenario-type; the random event-driven type; and the "favor race," a race to the master's heart! Make characters and start playing the game within minutes of opening the book. Everything about the game gears it for Fast Play, Now. Optional character types including player-character masters and butlers, and optional rules for seduction and romantic tragedy. 11 complete adventure scenarios. 3 complete "replays," actual play scenarios in screenplay format. Great for learning the feel of the game. The first ever Japanese tabletop role-playing game to be released in English! ...which, when you think about it, totally makes sense in a weird sort of way. Hundreds of optional items, costumes, genre and setting events, all presented in a way to easily bring them into the game! Combines the original Japanese core book and two supplements into one huge, complete edition of the game in English. A $75 value!

Inks, Drinks, and Catfinks!: the Custom Cartoon Art of Shawn Dickinson

Inks, Drinks, and Catfinks!: the Custom Cartoon Art of Shawn Dickinson
Author: Shawn Dickinson
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-04-20
Genre: Alcohol
ISBN: 9781631403408

Shawn Dickinson's very FIRST deluxe art book! Growing up on old comic strips, 1930s rubber hose cartoons, 1960s "kustom kulture" art, pin-up art, and MAD magazine, this collection of cartoons, paintings, comics, and illustrations from the past decade covers a wide range of his personal art as well as professional illustration work for rock bands, companies such as Fender Guitars and Shaun White's clothing line, and much more. If you're a fan of cartoony art featuring surf and hot rod culture, rock n' roll art, beer drinking cats, sexy cartoon go-go girls, and bug-eyed weirdos, then this book is for you!

Yokai Hunters Society

Yokai Hunters Society
Author: Chema González
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781716985379

A rules-light pen & paper RPG about monster hunters in Meiji Japan. Words, illustrations, and layout design by Chema González. Edited by Tyler Crumrine. Layout design advice by Salva González. Based on Tunnel Goons by Nate Treme. The year is 1889. After months of deliberation, a Constitution is about to be approved, giving absolute power to Emperor Meiji. In the last two decades, there have been profound political and social reforms that have cleared the way for "modernization: " the abolition of feudal privileges, the establishment of European-style political, police, and judicial systems, restructuring of the army, etc. But not everyone is happy with these changes. In these convulsive years, yokai sightings and encounters have increased tremendously. Some blame the barbarians, others accuse nostalgics of the bakufu times, and a few even dare to hold His Majesty responsible. The truth is nobody knows the reason behind the uptick in sightings for sure. The Yokai Gari Kai, or Yokai Hunters Society, has been around for centuries, gathering brave people from any social stratum willing to fight these abominations that lurk in the shadows. --- The adventures you can play range from facing the monster of the week, to complex investigations or political plots, to routine cleansing jobs. A horror-genre approach to the game's stories is recommended, with bonus points if it gestures towards the psychological horror characteristics of many Japanese films and comics. This game was created as an entry for the Goon Jam, and it's based on Tunnel Goons by Nate Treme. Text licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 International. Art and layout Copyright (c) Chema González / Punkpadour.

Mad Men

Mad Men
Author: Dyna Moe
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2010
Genre: Mad men (Television program)
ISBN: 9780297864929

MAD MEN: THE ILLUSTRATED WORLD is an engaging celebration of the life and times of the 'mad men' of Madison Avenue in the early 1960s. This book is by turns funny, kitschy, sophisticated and wry, and this full colour miscelleny is both a memento and a stand-alone salute to the time of slim suits, prosperity, cocktails, and the golden age of advertising. With chapters on the office, the home, fashion and beauty, mainstream and counterculture, travel and rainy day activities, this all-encompassing anthology is the only companion a fan will ever need. The only official MAD MEN publication, this tie-in to the wildly popular and cult television series captures the spirit of the era as it might be imagined on one of Sal Ramano's storyboards.

Sengoku

Sengoku
Author: Mark T. Arsenault
Publisher: Gold Rush Entertainment Incorporated
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2003-06-01
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781890305581

The Sengoku: Character Sheets book contains 41 illustrated and revised, two-sided character sheets, plus 11 additional blank (un-illustrated) character sheets. Features 41 illustrations of popular character profession templates -- samurai, bushi, priests, mystics, shinobi and more!