Tag: Translation

Being immortalized through a video-game is a surreal honor very few get to experience. One of the most famous examples often cited is the Chris Houlihan room from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but little do most MOTHER fans know that MOTHER 3 was nearly added to the list!

Featured below is a snippet from the MOTHER 3 Times Volume 3, where the game’s producer Shigesato Itoi, Atsushi Kakuta (Director), Toshinao Aoki (Enemy Designer) and Benimaru Itoh (Art Director) got together to review applications for the Spaceworld ’97 “MOTHER 3 Performer Contest.” This small portion focuses on an application from a certain individual who made a huge impression, but sadly did not end up winning the contest:

Fangamer, a company full of many original MOTHER community members from the legendary Starmen.net, took a trip to Japan in 2016, where they met Hobonichi at their office! There’s even some video of it out there, courtesy of StephenVlog. Fangamer’s reactions to that trip are pretty well-documented in that video and beyond, but there hasn’t been anything (as far as we know, at least) posted online about it from Hobonichi’s perspective. Luckily, one of those Starmen.net veterans, Mrtenda, found Hobonichi’s reaction in a 2017 Hobonichi Guidebook from the good ol’ days and sent the book over to be scanned and translated!

Hobonichi recently released two MOTHER series comic books called Pollyanna and Pollyanna 2. I plan to translate many of the comics featured in these books and post them to our Pollyanna Comic Books page, so stay tuned for more translations in the future!!

This is a translation of Toby Fox’s comic featured on page 122 of the first Pollyanna. This is meant to be a companion to the book, so get yours out (or get one from the Hobonichi website, they ship worldwide) and follow along!

Interviews about MOTHER 3 with Shigesato Itoi and Satoru Iwata from February, March, and July 1997 have been discovered from issues of the Dengeki Nintendo 64 magazine! All these interviews discuss the game in its initial stages, and July’s interview also includes some discussion about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive.

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!