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SCROLL 10: Summer

Digital editions include a booklet of “Summer Vacation Confidential

The complete, uncut interview with Kaz Ayabe as a separate PDF/ebook.

Or buy it in print: MagCloud

 

The summer holiday exemplifies freedom: for kids, it’s freedom from school and responsibility, and for kids and adults, it’s the freedom of going on faraway trips, where indelible memories are made. That’s the essence of Boku no Natsuyasumi, a Japanese PlayStation series that celebrates summer and nostalgia through the tales of a young city boy experiencing summer in remote parts of Japan in a bygone decade. This issue covers the four main “Bokunatsu” titles, plus the developer’s newest game Attack of the Friday Monsters, and summer memories from SCROLL readers throughout. Following that is SCROLL’s first developer interview; a rare in-depth profile of Boku no Natsuyasumi creator Kaz Ayabe, detailing his process in making the series.

 

June 25, 2013