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Hobonichi’s new Magnet Mascots feature a wide variety of creatures from MOTHER 2!
Each one includes a cardboard backing that features a little dialogue relating to that character in the game.
I went through and translated them all so fans outside of Japan might understand what each one is referencing. Enjoy!
They’ve done it again. Today, Hobonichi announced a full set of new and restocked merchandise for the now-legendary Hobonichi Mother Project – And my wallet can’t take it. Please, I can’t keep up…
A detailed description and report posted in 2015 by artist JINKO about the MOTHER 64 Demo at Spaceworld 1999 was discovered on their Pixiv page! They wrote and illustrated this report shortly after playing the demo, then posted it to a website they had at the time. Their report goes into detail about Tazmily’s layout, demo cutscenes, and more!
Mother: Cognitive Dissonance, the legendary MOTHER fan game, released in 2009 and has had a following within the MOTHER community ever since. It was directed by “Handish2000,” otherwise known as “Otherhand!” We reached out to Otherhand to find out more about his experiences with the MOTHER series, with the MOTHER community, and with the development of Mother: Cognitive Dissonance (CogDis for short)!
As the Hobonichi Mother Project keeps developing, there’s been an influx of new releases and news to keep track of, ranging from new merchandise pieces to themed events, and even physical pop-up shops dedicated to the Mother series. As the title suggests though, here, we’ll be focusing on the more recent merchandise releases, and looking to find some new information about them. Again, special thanks goes to Lone for translating the website descriptions, and special thanks also goes to Kody NOKOLO for proofreading and editing the translated text!
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It’s a clash of the ages in this extra long and thoughtful interview with Reid Young, the original webmaster of Starmen.net who currently runs things at the gaming merchandise website Fangamer! This interview was from March 2020.
On August 17th, the Hobonichi MOTHER Project announced that there would be themed merchandise on their store page, starting on August 24th. Now that the merch has been released, we can take a closer look at some of the items and see what they are as well as any interesting details they have! Special thanks goes to Lone for translating the website descriptions!
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17 years ago, during the promotion of MOTHER 1+2, Shigesato Itoi posted parts of his “Mr. Saturn Translation Course” on Hobonichi. On September 30th, Itoi began a new series of posts about writing like Mr. Saturn!
Last year, Hobonichi published a book about Satoru Iwata simply called Iwata-San. Today, VIZ Media has announced they will be publishing the book for a release outside of Japan as Ask Iwata.
In November 2019, Shigesato Itoi was interviewed about Iwata-San (localized in English as Ask Iwata), a book published by Hobonichi that compiles the words of Satoru Iwata. Itoi talks about his time with Iwata and explores what MOTHER 4 could’ve been like, even though he wouldn’t make another MOTHER game himself.
