{"rewrite":{"id":"r_2d8f4b11610a5723d08fe7c1","clusterId":"c_92419803dc0ced2dc128ad55","slug":"mages-president-makoto-asada-says-new-titles-and-revivals-in-the-works","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"MAGES. President Makoto Asada Says New Titles and Revivals in the Works","summary":"In a Game Spark interview, MAGES. president Makoto Asada says the company is preparing new titles and revival projects. Asada, who became president in January 2025 and joined MAGES. in 2013, discusses his remakes of YU-NO and the Famicom Detective Club games, and explains how the YU-NO remake was approved quickly by then-president Chiyomaru Shikura.","whyItMatters":"Asada's public talk of unannounced new titles and revivals puts MAGES.' adventure game catalog back in play, with the president himself naming the genre as his reason for joining the company.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eAsada became president of MAGES. in January 2025, and he has spent much of the time since on adventure game remakes. He joined the company in 2013 after working at Cave, where he made the adventure game Instant Brain.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe YU-NO remake, he says, was negotiated with the rights holders in about two weeks, and Chiyomaru Shikura, then president, approved the budget for a nine-month extension. Asada also describes calling the ratings board one item at a time to argue against cuts.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe says the company has new works and revivals in preparation but gives no titles or dates.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Makoto Asada pushed the YU-NO remake through fast because Chiyomaru Shikura approved it as president. Now Asada holds that approval power at MAGES., which shapes which revivals get greenlit.","twitterPost":"Asada won quick approval for the YU-NO remake from then-president Chiyomaru Shikura. Now Asada is the one deciding which MAGES. revivals move.","threadsPost":"Makoto Asada's YU-NO remake moved fast because then-president Chiyomaru Shikura approved it quickly. Asada became MAGES. president in January 2025, so the greenlight call for the revival projects now runs through him.","newsletterBlurb":"MAGES. president Makoto Asada says the company has new titles and revival projects in preparation, without naming any. In a Game Spark interview he walks through the YU-NO remake, from a two-week rights negotiation to the ratings arguments he made by phone.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/22/173945.html\",\"title\":\"Adventure game veteran MAGES. is preparing surprising new titles and revival works!? An interview with representative director and president Makoto Asada, on his overflowing love of games\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":6287,"outputTokens":588,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792668141,"createdAt":"2026-10-22T11:18:41.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T11:21:10.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T11:21:10.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_92419803dc0ced2dc128ad55","canonicalTitle":"アドベンチャーゲームの名手MAGES.は驚きの新作やリバイバル作品も準備中！？代表取締役社長・浅田誠氏インタビュー。溢れるゲーム愛を聞いた","representativeArticleId":"a_b22abd034abdfd6aacdb0782","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World\",\"Famicom Detective Club\"],\"studios\":[\"MAGES.\"],\"people\":[\"Makoto Asada\"],\"type\":\"op_ed\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-22T10:00:03.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-22T10:00:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T11:21:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/22/173945.html","title":"アドベンチャーゲームの名手MAGES.は驚きの新作やリバイバル作品も準備中！？代表取締役社長・浅田誠氏インタビュー。溢れるゲーム愛を聞いた"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World","Famicom Detective Club"],"studios":["MAGES."],"people":["Makoto Asada"],"type":"op_ed","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}