{"id":30148,"date":"2024-04-26T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=30148"},"modified":"2024-04-26T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:26:10","slug":"hideki-kamiya-looks-back-on-okami-new-year-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/hideki-kamiya-looks-back-on-okami-new-year-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideki Kamiya looks back on Okami&#8217;s New Year cards\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Capcom\u2019s Clover Studio may not exist anymore but its games still stand the test of time. Viewtiful Joe, <strong>Okami<\/strong>, and God Hand have unique gameplay, stories, and art styles that stick with players long after the games have been completed. Okami\u2019s art in particular is so memorable, largely\u00a0due to how its gameplay involves making calligraphy brushstrokes to directly impact your surroundings. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u305d\u3046\u8a00\u3048\u3070\u5927\u795e\u767a\u58f2\u5f53\u6642\u3001\u5927\u795e\u306e\u30db\u30fc\u30e0\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3067\u7b46\u795e\u3055\u307e\u305f\u306113\u795e\u3092\u3042\u3057\u3089\u3063\u305f\u5e74\u8cc0\u72b6\u30bb\u30c3\u30c8\u307f\u305f\u3044\u306a\u306e\uff08\u753b\u50cf\uff09\u3092\u7528\u610f\u3057\u3066\u3001\u300c\u5168\u90e8\u4f7f\u3044\u5207\u308b\u306e\u4f55\u5e74\u639b\u304b\u308b\u306d\u3093\u7b11\u300d\u3068\u304b\u30b9\u30bf\u30c3\u30d5\u305f\u3061\u3068\u7b11\u3063\u3066\u305f\u3093\u3060\u3051\u3069\u2026\u4f59\u88d5\u3067\u4f7f\u3044\u5207\u3063\u3066\u8db3\u308a\u306a\u304f\u306a\u308b\u5e74\u6708\u304c\u7d4c\u3063\u3066\u305f\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FsvC9X84K6\">https:\/\/t.co\/FsvC9X84K6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u795e\u8c37\u82f1\u6a39\ud83c\udf40 Hideki Kamiya\ud83c\udf40 (@HidekiKamiya_X) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HidekiKamiya_X\/status\/1782452446062838050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> <em>Come to think of it, when Okami first came out, we had released a set of New Year&#8217;s cards featuring the 13 brush gods on the Okami website and the staff and I were laughing about how it would take us years to get through them all, lol&#8230; But now, with the passing years, we have gone through all of them&#8230;\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>18 years after Okami was first made available on the PlayStation 2, game director Hideki Kamiya still fondly recalls moments from the game\u2019s release. Upon seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/famitsu\/status\/1781450302862082337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a Famitsu post announcing the game\u2019s anniversary<\/a>, Kamiya took to the social media site X to talk about some early promotions for the game. According to him, Clover Studio prepared a series of New Year\u2019s cards that were put up on the now-defunct Okami website.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese New Year\u2019s cards are traditionally sent on New Year\u2019s Day to friends and family- with the cards featuring the zodiac animal for that particular year. For example, 2024 is the year of the dragon, so people sent cards featuring that zodiac animal this January. Regarding the 13 Okami New Year card designs, which feature the Celestial Brush gods from the game that represent zodiac animals, the staff joked at the time that it would take years to get through all the designs. With 18 years having gone by since Okami\u2019s original release- Kamiya commented that the years represented by these cards have now passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3053\u308c\u3067\u3059\u306d\u3047\u2026\u3000\u30bf\u30a4\u30e0\u30b9\u30b9\u30bf\u30f3\u30d72006\u5e74\u3060\u308f\u3055\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v2NWP8Lgw2\">https:\/\/t.co\/v2NWP8Lgw2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qSFJtz332d\">pic.twitter.com\/qSFJtz332d<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30ab\u30b2\u864e\uff20\u304a\u3046\u3061 (@kagetora_edomae) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kagetora_edomae\/status\/1782457369202663889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> <em>This is it&#8230; the time stamp is from 2006.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing kagetora_edomae\u2019s post, Hideki Kamiya was quick to notice that each Celestial Brush god had three different card designs dedicated to them. 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Considering the number of times Okami has been ported to other consoles and platforms, the game may still be relevant after all this time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okami creator Hideki Kamiya reveals the Japanese New Year cards that were made to celebrate the initial release of the Clover Studio game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":30165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-30148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hideki Kamiya looks back on Okami&#039;s New Year cards\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Okami creator Hideki Kamiya reveals the Japanese New Year cards that were made to celebrate the initial release of the Clover Studio game.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/hideki-kamiya-looks-back-on-okami-new-year-cards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hideki Kamiya looks back on Okami&#039;s New Year cards\u00a0 - 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