“What is this? A Siege tactical crew for ants?”

Japan has weird and archaic censorship laws. For example, you can’t watch porn that depicts genitals, but you can watch an enormous, anatomically correct phallus being paraded down the road multiple times a year in multiple cities in front of children: http://tokyodesu.com/2013/04/09/pic…

They don’t take style bibles very seriously in Japan, if they have one at all. I spent a few years as a producer in the anime industry and it was always an uphill battle trying to get the Japanese directors and animators to put something together. Usually, if they had a bible at all, it was a few Powerpoint slides…

I think this points to Japanese creators/companies fundamentally misunderstanding how Kickstarter is supposed to work. They like to treat it as essentially a free expense account, collecting money from fans while typically finding a publisher to fund the large bulk of the game anyway (Shenmue III, Red Ash). Japan is…