A documentary of the "MOTHER series" is being produced in the United States, and an interview with Mr. Shigisato Itoi also

Nintendo game "MOTHER series"Copywriter Shigesato Itoi is handling game design, its unique world view gained popularity, the latest work"MOTHER 3Even now, a considerable number of years have passed since the release of the RPG, which is a representative RPG of Japan that receives high evaluation from players. There are lots of fans fascinated by the United States, but in the United States in 1995 "MOTHER 2(English title: EARTH BOUND) "was released on Wii U in 2013Virtual console versionAs MOTHER 2 was released as the only, the first "MOTHER" and "MOTHER 3" are not officially released.

America's enthusiastic MOTHER fans launch a fan exchange site and develop signature campaigns to appeal MOTHER 3's release in the US. Such community site of America's MOTHER fans worked together "EARTHBOUND, USA"We are making a documentary close to the back side of" How American MOTHER fans have spread the game in the country "and we are conducting an interview with Mr. Itoi.

EARTHBOUND, USA
http://earthboundusa.com/

The manager of "EARTH BOUND, USA" is an American male named Jeffrey Benson. Mr. BensonUbseyMoviesIt belongs to a group that creates independent films. Mr. Benson's representative works are "MOTHER"EarthBound SagaIn the work called MOTHER's fan community site "FangamerIn addition to being able to purchase DVDs,Delivered on YouTubeIt is being done.

The photography team of "EARTH BOUND, USA" led by Benson visited Japan in March 2014 and conducted an interview with Mr. Itoi.


Since the interview with Mr. Shigisato Itoi is used in the documentary, the contents are not disclosed, but Mr. Itoi has tweeted it like following after an interview.

American fans of "MOTHER 2" (http://t.co/g4DXhTS0UU) Came to the interview. People who were elementary school students, too, get married and children and have loved this game yet. I have done a lot of work, but this game is something special.

- Shigesato Itoi (@itoi_shigesato)2014, March 26

What is mostly involved in documentary production is "Fangamer" and "STARMEN.NETAt the MOTHER fan community site, they are active in the United States, holding events related to the MOTHER series. Actually, this is not the first time for Mr. Itoi to interact with both sites.

STARMEN.NET held a charity event on the theme of MOTHER last year. Among them, "MOTHER 2" autographed by Mr. Shigesato Itoi was exhibited, there are Fangamer and STARMEN.NET, and Mr. Itoi's heartwarming story, its contents can be confirmed from the following movie .

For James (for James) - YouTube


Ben Biggle of Fangamer had a friend named James who worked together.


Mr. James gives Mr. Bigle a new item of MOTHER 2 that will cost more than 1000 dollars (about 100,000 yen) a day.


Mr. Biggle said he said "I can not get this", but Mr. James said that he put a generous saying "I'm good".


Three to four years after that, news enters "Mr. James has touched cancer" under Mr. Biggle. When Mr. Bigle listened to the news, it was MOTHER 2 that I remembered the first time as a present.


Biggle thinks that the protagonists who overcome the theme of "MOTHER series" "friendship" and negative things that happen in the game with a positive attitude are encouraging James.


So Biggle will ask the STARMEN.NET bulletin board "For medical expenses, for example, selling things with Mr. Itoi's autograph at auction, will you become a force?"


STARMEN.NET accepts Mr. Biggle's request. Let me write a letter to Lindsay Nelson, who has an exchange with Mr. Itoi, to sign the cassette of MOTHER, I will send it to Mr. Itoi.


A few days later, an image of Mr. Itoi signing the cassette is sent to STARMEN.NET.


This is Mr. Itoi who signs the cassette.


In the photograph, "cassette" written as "to James", in STARMEN.NET "Although it is a charity auction, it is misunderstood by Mr. Itoi and Jesus giving it! It is serious!


In the next image it was corrected to "for James".


It seems that everyone was pleased that "For that little correction, you can feel the thoughtfulness, it is for James, it is perfect!"


Here is the cassette of MOTHER 2 actually Mr. Itoi signed.


Biggle said, "Just as with the last fight with the Geek, there is nothing that can not be overcome if there is a fighting spirit, although James is fighting much more frightening things than Geeg, but I want him to fight with a positive feeling "I tell you.


Mr. Itoi tweets the impression that he saw the above movie, made MOTHER and was really good.

Lindsey (@ Lindsayn) Mail came from. I told you to put Japanese in the example movie.http://t.co/rQxcHAWniBWhat I say ... I think that it was really good to make this series of "MOTHER (EARTHBOUND)" series.

- Shigesato Itoi (@itoi_shigesato)2013, November 25

"EARTH BOUND, USA" which is currently under construction is scheduled to be released in 2015, and in the future will be the cloud fundingKickstarterBut he said that he will ask for investment. America's MOTHER fans' enthusiasm is muffled and it is a work that I also want Japanese MOTHER fans to see.