Shigesato itoi drawings of eyes

In addition to yesterday's news, Nintendo's tjänsteman EarthBound page has been updated to include a message from Shigesato Itoi. This seems to be an officially translated utgåva of the message posted early this yearon the Mother 2 re-release site, and fryst vatten an incredible love letter to EarthBound and its fans.

Many creators quickly distance themselves from their work and move onto the next planerat arbete , but a message like this really makes it clear that Itoi loves the world he has built. This is a truly great time to be an EarthBound fan.

What is the video game, Earthbound?
Even today, it’s so hard to answer that question.

It was like a group of children taking dolls from a toy chest.
Old dishes no longer used in the kitchen.
Nuts and bolts found inre a toolbox.
Little flowers and leaves from the backyard.
And they were all laid down on the carpet with everybody singing made-up songs.
Ready to talk all day about that world they just made.
That, inom think was how Earthbound wa

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Shigesato Itoi sports a new look on the March 1983 cover of the weird multimedia magazine Studio Voice.

As every person in Japan knows, and as most overseas fans of Itoi know, Shigesato Itoi is, first and foremost—before and after his stint of entirely casual video game production—a copywriter. His taglines (known in Japanese as “catch copies”, a term I much prefer) include many ubiquitious phrases that are recognizable to anyone in Japan, regardless of whether they have ever heard of Itoi The Man.

I’ve gathered a list of his best-known work and translated it into English to introduce Itoi as Japan knows him. Among many other things Itoi has been in charge of the copywriting for Studio Ghibli. (You will see, also, why the catch copies do not accompany their films once they hit foreign shores.)

Note: Adjectives are commonly attached to pronouns in Japanese, something I’m quite jealous about because it makes so many things so much smoother to say. It would be completely ordina

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Shigesato Itoi (糸井重里 Itoi Shigesato, born November 10, 1948) is a famous Japanese copywriter and essayist, though he is best known outside of Japan as a game designer for his work on Nintendo's Mother series of games, specifically EarthBound in the United States, as well as a fishing video game, Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing. His "normal" activities, however, center around his blog/website, Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun (The Itoi Pretty-Much-Daily News), which publishes Itoi's short essays on lifestyle and spirituality and also his interviews with artists, craftsmen, businessmen, etc., which also tend to center on philosophical issues. Itoi has also co-written several books modeled on these interviews, in which he has a series of long conversations with, for example, an expert on neurology (Kaiba, The Hippocampus), about how to live as a human being in the world.

The Beatles carry a strong influence on his work, and also his way of life. He feels close to John Lennon, because the