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In this issue:
	Far East of Eden Mystery Continues...read Japanese?
	CHADA info found...very interesting!
	Re: Far East of Eden Mystery Continues...read Japanese?

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From: duo16@mindspring.com
Date: Thu Aug  8 17:53:46 EDT 2002
Subject: Far East of Eden Mystery Continues...read Japanese?


      Disney also tried to buy the rights for Star Blazers (Uchu Senkan
Yamato, one of my favorite PC Engine games!) for a motion picture but thank
God Voyager Entertainment and Jupiter Films wouldn't have anything to do with
them.
      If anyone out there is fluent in Japanese and has the Tengai Maykou
games (even the AWESOME Saturn one), there is a profile of Chada but it is in
Japanese (p.47 in the Kabuki den manual). I'd LOVE to know what they say about
him in it.  Has anyone found anything out about Professor Chada and what his
connection is to the Tengai Makyou series?  For those of you who don't have
any of the games in the RPG series (btw, is any of this printed in the
fighting games?), here is what he has to say in English:
 
        It's time for the Japanese creators to enter the world-wide stage. 
This is a great new challenge which offers an entirely new prospective in the
development of the fantasy world.  Movie is dead, and we will enjoy a new form
of drama through the computers in our homes.  I feel "KABUKI" brings a whole
new dimension to RPG not present in the western RPG.  I hope "KABUKI" will
strike Hollywood and Disney with this oriental magic.
         Dr. P.H. Chada
 
      Though I agree with most of this, it's kind of moot since it doesn't
seem as though Hudson made any push to bring this out to the US where
Hollywood and Disney might ever see it!  What even a little more bizarre is
that in Tengai Makyou IV: The Apocalypse (Saturn), the setting is the United
States!



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From: duo16@mindspring.com
Date: Thu Aug  8 18:00:49 EDT 2002
Subject: CHADA info found...very interesting!


As I was putting my FEoE game back on the shelf, I decided to take down
ManjiMaru for a quick look through the manual and BINGO...check this out:

   On page 48 of the manual is some more info about Chada in Japanese but
there is a photo there of a book of his in english!! I can't quite make it all
out but here is mostly what it says on the very interesting cover:

  (there is a publisher's address at the very top which I can't make out for
the life of me! AARGH)

    FAR EAST OF EDEN ZIRIA
         by Paul Hieronymus Chada (there's a japanese name for you)

    "This is the story of a wonder magcal boy names Ziria who grew up in the
ancient age of feudal Japan..."
    i can't make it all out but someone with a scanner could enlarge it i'm
sure and make it out.  anyway, it appears that chada released a book here in
the USA no less which spawned this series.
 



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From: Endymion@inviolate.com
Date: Thu Aug  8 18:16:59 EDT 2002
Subject: Re: Far East of Eden Mystery Continues...read Japanese?



Has anyone found anything out about Professor Chada and
what his connection is to the Tengai Makyou series?

I thought this was relatively common knowledge by now.

The Tengai Makyou games is Hudson Soft's way of poking fun at the 
USA's=20=

popular conception of the Orient. It is about a fictional Japan, 
where=20=

everything is distinctly Asian but at the same time, absolutely not=20
Japanese. It's Japanese the way Japan might be described by a five 
year=20=

old--or any other person who does not have a real grasp of the 
Japanese=20=

culture.

The story of the Tengai Makyou games is a "historical fiction" of 
sorts=20=

which was written by Professor Paul Chada, a "Japanest history 
expert"=20=

from Alaska. But of course he knows nothing about Japan, so the story 
is=20=

all kooky and crazy.

Tengai Makyou IV takes the story in reverse and satirises the Asian=20
perception of the Americas, where everything is yet again as crazy as 
a=20=

lark.

Professor Paul Chada is of course purely fictional himself.

~Alek

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