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Anime Central - Day One - Ryo Mizuno
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It's most often associated with the sword and sorcery genre, but the
modern role playing game can cover a lot of ground - with the most important
territory being that inside the game players' imagination. Ryo Mizuno discovered
that when he started translating English-language games in an effort to
introduce them to the Japanese market. As RPG's became popular in Japan,
they moved into the manga and anime world - especially Mizuno's masterpiece,
Record of Lodoss War. |
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| Lodoss grew from a story idea that Mizuno first had in high school.
As his RPG success grew, Mizuno decided to make a Lodoss game, book and
film. "I had to create another world based on the story," he said. In games
you can become the main character and become involved in another world
- that's what intrigued me about games. I also wanted to teach the world
in my head to other people. The best way to do that was role playing games." |
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Mizuno likes the game system he devised for Lodoss, where numbers describe
a character's tendencies and skills. "By looking at the number you
can see how difficult it is for your goal to be achieved." |
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| Gamers are confounded by those who don't understand the appeal of RPG's.
Many people in Japan and the U.S. think the gamers envelop themselves in
fantasy world and ignore real life. Mizuno says the games can bring out
the best and worst in people, and they shouldn't be censored. "I don't
think that by restricting movies and games, it would eliminate crime in
youth," he said. |
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