Make Your Voice Heard With Our New Fan Survey!

As we have done in the past, we have just put together a fan survey to get to know a little bit more about you, as we plan out how we bring Stray Children into the world in the future!

Are there any particular platforms you’d love to see the game released on? Are there any specific languages you’d love to see it released in?

Are you interested in special edition physical bundles? Do you want soundtracks? Figurines of the characters in the game?

All of this is possible… we just need to know that you actually want it to exist, and this is your way to tell us!

To participate, just follow this link right here and take a few minutes to let us know your thoughts!

It will be a huge help and let us know what we should focus on in the future, so feel free to pass this link to the survey on to any friends you think will also be interested in the game!

KuraMANGA, NO. 12: The “I’m So Sorry” Issue (January)

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※ There’s… no way I can finish it “this winter”…
I totally failed at scheduling backwards…

[Dusk, January 2024]
※ To whom it may concern: the players, the staff, Nintendo-san…
I am truly so sorry…

※ There’s just… not enough time…

[Beautiful PR Manager Ms. Tsukiyono]
※ For indie devs, “time” is the same as “budget”, right?
Why not have another look at the budget and sales forecasts?

※ Sales forecasts, how terrifying… I’m too scared to even think about it!
※ A lot of players are looking forward to it!

※ Or maybe… no one’s looking forward to it…

[Emergency Meeting]
※ What about a fancy special edition?
※ What about a soundtrack?
※ What about figures?

※ AAAAAHHHHH! NO TO EVERYTHING! I don’t even know if anyone will want to buy those things!!

※ I guess… I’ll just have to ask people directly…

※ Everyone! Commence Operation: Customer Survey!
※ Nice one!

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KuraMANGA, NO. 11: Leaving 2023 Behind (December)

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※ Looking back, this year has been a difficult one…
※ Let’s make all the animation and sound perfect for the first part of the game!

※ Okay!

※ The sound effects are ready!
※ The battle music is ready!
※ We threw in some forest music, too!

※ Next up: optimizing the Switch version…

[March 2023]
※ The test build is ready!
※ Measuring processing speed! Optimization is go!

[Summer 2023]
※ How about the submarine section?
※ On it right now!
※ Way ahead of you!

[September 2023]
※ Then I’m all-in getting to work on the story!
※ I’m on fire!

[December 2023]
※ Wait… what? There’s still so much that needs doing!

※ The year might be over, but… the fight must go on! I have to do it!
※ I’ll take a little new year’s break and get back at it until it’s finished!

※ Do it!

※ Thank you so much for all your support this year. We look forward to seeing you in the new year!
※ Nice one!

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KuraMANGA, NO. 10: A Meeting About Music (November)

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※ Every Thursday at 8:00 p.m., at a certain place in Tokyo…
A secret meeting about music is held…
※ [Thelonious Monkee, Masanori Adachi] OK.
※ [Thelonious Monkee, Hirofumi Taniguchi] Let’s get to it.

※ So, for this scene… We’ll need a song with a normal, lonesome feeling.
※ Sure, what do you mean by “lonesome”?
What is “normal”?

※ [Unintelligible anguish]

※ And, for this scene… it’s important to capture a sense of adventure.
※ You mean, it’s a musical representation of the player’s point of view?

※ [Unintelligible anguish]

※ And so, the Q&A session comes to an end…
But then…

※ Small-talk time begins!

※ The Beatles’ new song…
※ Strength training is so good!
※ Doesn’t it seem like more famous people have been dying lately?
※ We’re all going to die someday, aren’t we?
※ Hahahaha!
※ What? We’re spending more time chatting than working??
※ Hahahaha!
※ Well, everything’s gonna work out.

※ Every Thursday night rolls by just like so…
※ Nice one!

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KuraMANGA, NO. 09: A Conversation with PR ⁣⁣(October)

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※[Beautiful PR Manager Ms. Tsukiyono] So, apparently, we made 2% progress on the game last month… What does that actually mean?
※ Ah, well… you see—

※ RUN AWAY!

※ Boss! That way!
※ It’s an escape route!

※ Phew!

※ *SLAM*
※ Huh?

※ *CLICK*
※ Heheheh…

※ Please forgive us, boss!

※ Heh heh heh heh… Until the game is finished, you’re not going anywhere!

※ And so the videogame-making Uncle retreated into the vault… where he lived happily ever after.
※ Nice one?

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KuraMANGA, NO. 08: When Exactly is Winter? ⁣⁣(September)

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※ Kimura-san, what do you mean when you say “this winter”?
※ uh.

※ Is it the end of December?
※ uhh.

※ January is winter! February is winter! March is winter!
※ No! March is already spring!

※ Uhhhhhh… it’s winter until the cherry blossoms bloom… it’s winter until the cherry blossoms bloom…

※ Captain! Something on the radar! No! My god!

※ Something—a huge meteorite! It’s headed straight toward earth!

※ No! The meteor is on a collision course! The impact will cause a new ice age! That means… permanent winter!

※ [Barfly Kurashima] Oooh thish winter s’gonna be a long one…
※We’re about 72% of the way to completion of the game, or global extinction!
※ Nice one!

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KuraMANGA, NO. 07: Announcing Stray Children

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※ Ohhh… oh man…

※ I finally released the first screenshots of my new game!
※ And in such a big way!

※ Everyone in the whole world has seen it now!
※ But… I’m still working on it!

※ You know, I feel like it’s really starting to come together lately!
※ ……

※ Right… okay… OK!! We can’t slow down now, we have to buckle down even harder! The end goal is still far away! We have to!
※ We have to!

※[Public Relations Manager Ms. Tsuskyono] By the way… How has development been going? What’s the actual percentage?
※ [sneaking away slowly]

※ [said in my authentic usual way] I bet I could guessh!
It’sh about 70%, probablyyy!

※ Good one!

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Stray Children

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Announcing: STRAY CHILDREN, for Nintendo Switch

Hello Onion fans everywhere! As you might have spotted in Japan’s latest Nintendo Direct, we are very happy to formally announce, and invite you to enter…

Stray Children, our new RPG, coming soon to Nintendo Switch.

Stray Children is a bittersweet fairytale RPG, created by many of the same people behind beloved cult-classics like Chulip, Little King’s Story, Rule of Rose, Super Mario RPG, and, of course, Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, the game we re-released in English in 2021.

The story of Stray Children begins like so:

One day, a young boy is sucked into a TV set and awakens to find himself in a land made up entirely of children.

So begins the boy’s adventures in this strange and dangerous wonderland.

As you can tell from our regular development diaries and newsletter, work is still heavily underway on the game and its localization, but we have updates planned for you in the future! To stay on top of the latest news, please:

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We hope you’re as excited to enter the world of Stray Children as we are for you to see it!


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KuraMANGA, NO. 06: This Efficient Life (August)

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※ The world’s sort of a mess lately, isn’t it…
※ Work more efficiently! Live more efficiently!

※ These are tough times…

※ But, we do actually want to make our games efficiently, don’t we?
※ Yeah! Detailed design docs! Make lists! Prioritize tasks!

※ Keep everything stable and organized! Organized!!

※ But aren’t games just a way to kill time?
※ What if games are a waste of everyone’s life?
※ How do you know when to just trash something?
※ Maybe they are just inefficient garbage.

※ [intense ethereal whooshing]

※ Maybe we’re toiling away on something completely useless…
※ But… that’s exactly why… I try to add one unforgettable treasure in every game…
※ Great one!

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