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Archipel - Patreon Renewal

Hello everyone,

Together with Archipel Caravan, we are launching today a renewed version of our Patreon. After having teased about it for a while, here are the updates that are taking place t...

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New | Kazutaka Kodaka, Archipel Caravan

Hello everyone,

Today marks the launch of Archipel Caravan, our new series around creators from the Japanese game industry.

Our first video is an interview of Kazutaka Kodaka, creator o...

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Announcing: Archipel Caravan

Hello everyone,

After having teased about it for a few weeks now, today we're proud to finally announce Archipel Caravan - an original series of weekly content themed on Japanese games.

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Soon on Archipel - Patron Update

Hello everyone,

We're conscious we've been a bit silent these days, however please be assured that we've been (and still are) active on creating new content.

We already mentioned that w...

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Ambient Session with Chihei Hatakeyama - a long rainy season

Hello everyone,

We hope everyone is staying healthy and safe.

We just launched a new video on the channel, taking on a different style. It was around the start of the rainy season, when...

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Staying Afloat - Saving a ramen chain during the pandemic

Hello everyone,

We hope everyone is doing well, as we see some opening measures are starting to take place in several countries.

As we shared in last week's post, what originally starte...

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Upcoming Content & Patron Update

Hello everyone,

We hope everyone is staying healthy and safe.

As shared in our previous Patreon post, our next release on the channel will be a non pop-culture project. A few weeks back...

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Patron Update & Yoshitaka Amano Portrait

Hi everyone,

As the isolation days keep on going, first we hope that you and your close ones are all staying healthy. On our end, we've been exploring project ideas and how to adapt to the cu...

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Patron Update - Strange Times

Hi everyone,

First things first, we hope everyone is staying healthy during these crazy times we're living.

Japan is taking a strange course of action in this whole situation with only ...

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Special: Inside Nioh 2 Documentary

Hi all,

Quickly sharing this in time before Patreon's maintenance!

We launched a new documentary today, a bit special this time as it is an editorial and video collaboration with Japane...

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Patreon Update - One year in.

Hi everyone,

As briefly announced in our Patreon post yesterday, we thought it was time to give a proper update to our patrons on where we are currently standing, and what we want to initiate...

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Hamada Washi, a 150-year tradition of Japanese paper making - Paper Trail

Hello everyone,

The start of the year has been a bit busier than we first expected and we have been (and still are for a couple of weeks or so) stuck on a few client projects.

Today we'...

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An Osaka drinking tour with SWERY

Hello everyone,

To start off the year, we spent a short time in Osaka, where we met game creator SWERY (Deadly Premonition, The MISSING), also known as the "drinKING". He took us on a tour wh...

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Reminiscing 2019

Hello everyone,

It's that time of the year - and while we are planning for our content for next year, we thought we'd take a moment to reminisce on some of the moments we spent in 2019:

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Hiroyuki Takei - the soul of Shaman King

Hi everyone, 

After a long delay, we are happy to finally share our portrait of Hiroyuki Takei, the mangaka behind the world-renowned Shaman King series, formerly part of the Weekly Shon...

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Upcoming content update

Hi everyone,

As we've recently announced, we will be renewing toco toco, keeping the same concept but under a new name. But in addition to that, we wanted to share an update on our upcoming c...

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The return

Hi everyone,

We have a small announcement to make ー our series toco toco will be back, with a new name. Same concept, new guests. More to come soon.

Thank you for your continuous supp...

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Unfinished chapter (Patron update)

Hi everyone,

Today we were supposed to release our portrait of Hiroyuki Takei, the mangaka behind the world-renowned Shaman King series. We were really looking forward to that release ourselv...

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TGS Interview - Toshihiro Nagoshi | Fumihiko Yasuda

Hello everyone,

It's close to a month now since Tokyo Game Show ended. It feels like many people have given up a bit on the event, however the number of visitors remains high. In hindsight, T...

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TGS Encounters - Yoshiro Kimura

Hello everyone,

The latest small interview from our Tokyo Game Show encounters is out.

Following our conversation with Kotaro Uchikoshi, we took a turn towards the indies hall, where we...

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TGS Encounters - Kotaro Uchikoshi

Hello everyone,

As recently shared, we will be publishing a series of small interviews, gathering some of the encounters we made at Tokyo Game Show this year.

We just released the first...

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Patreon update: TGS encounters & Hiroyuki Takei portrait

Hello everyone,

Tokyo Game Show is now behind us, and we thought it was the right time to give you a quick update of what's coming next on the channel.

During TGS, we found some time to...

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Soon on Archipel: Hiroyuki Takei, a day with a mangaka (Working title)

Hello,

Thanks again to everyone supporting us on Patreon! Our number of patrons is slowly (but surely?) growing, and your support means a lot to us.

We just finished shooting today with...

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New on Archipel - Iga's Lair

Hello everyone, 

Our latest video, Iga's Lair, is now online.

We met with Koji 'IGA' Igarashi, who founded his company to begin development on Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, an...

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[Early Access] Iga's Lair

Hello to all our Archivist patrons,

Our latest video, Iga's Lair, is now available in early access. 

We met with Koji 'Iga' Igarashi to discuss the story of "Bloodstained: Ritual o...

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Iga’s Lair - soon on Archipel

Hello everyone, 

It's been a rather busy month on our end, but we're back to share a quick update on what's coming next on Archipel.

In a grim and mysterious place far away from bi...

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A Dream Cast - Part 2

Hi (again) - the second part to our Dreamcast documentary is here.

Closing our series of conversations, we've asked Hiroshi Iuchi, Kenji Kanno, Masayoshi Kikuchi, Rieko Kodama, Tetsuya Mizugu...

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A Dream Cast - Part 1

Hi everyone,

With a slight delay, the first part of our Dreamcast documentary, A Dream Cast, is now online.

We discussed with eight game creators who are behind some of the Dreamcast's ...

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Dreamcast Documentary (Out July 5th)

Hello everyone,

Our Dreamcast documentary is just around the corner. In a similar manner to Ebb and Flow last year, it is as we previously mentioned a series of conversations with some of the...

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Short update (longer one coming soon)

Thank you for your support on the Discord after our latest (and last) toco toco episode with Keiichi Okabe. Archipel continues, as we are currently planning our next phase of content (more updates ...

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