{"id":46988,"date":"2025-04-11T20:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=46988"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:04:42","slug":"tales-of-the-abyss-developer-reveals-chaotic-origin-story-of-mieu-runs-full-marathon-in-luke-fon-fabre-cosplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/tales-of-the-abyss-developer-reveals-chaotic-origin-story-of-mieu-runs-full-marathon-in-luke-fon-fabre-cosplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the Abyss developer reveals chaotic origin story of Mieu, runs full marathon in Luke fon Fabre cosplay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The year 2025 marks 20 years since the release of the JRPG classic <strong>Tales of the Abyss<\/strong>. And is there any better way to celebrate this than to\u2026run a full marathon wearing a Luke cosplay? Kenji Anabuki, the developer who worked on many Tales Of series titles and directed <strong>Scarlet Nexus<\/strong>, seems to agree. After all, this would be not his first, nor his second \u2013 but his third time running 42 kilometers in cosplay. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.denfaminicogamer.jp\/kikakuthetower\/250408a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In a special article he wrote for Denfaminicogamer<\/a>, he talks about what Tales of the Abyss means to him, the chaotic truth behind the birth of Abyss\u2019 mascot character Mieu, and why he ran the Tokyo marathon as Luke fon Fabre.<\/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\">\u5f0a\u793e\u7a74\u5439(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shibainu_kenji?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@shibainu_kenji<\/a> )\u304c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A9%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u6771\u4eac\u30de\u30e9\u30bd\u30f3<\/a> \u3092\u5b8c\u8d70\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u2728<br>\u5fdc\u63f4\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304d\u3001\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3057\u305f\ud83d\ude0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GyL8uuBCLE\">pic.twitter.com\/GyL8uuBCLE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30d0\u30f3\u30c0\u30a4\u30ca\u30e0\u30b3\u30b9\u30bf\u30b8\u30aa (@BNStudios_info) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNStudios_info\/status\/1896089329853943952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after 20 years, Tales of the Abyss still holds a very special place in Anabuki\u2019s heart, and there is no doubt that Abyss wouldn\u2019t be the game it is now if it wasn\u2019t for him. At the time, he was working as the dungeon designer, creating and planning each of the dungeons in the game. He had previously worked on the designs of some of the dungeons for Tales of Symphonia, although he admits in the article that the dungeons he made for it were \u201cexhausting to the players\u201d; which is why he tried to make them a bit more balanced for Abyss. However, one of the \u201cfeatures\u201d he proposed for Tales of the Abyss had completely changed the course of the game\u2019s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"718\" height=\"579\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411-46988001.jpg\" alt=\"In-game encounter with Mieu\" class=\"wp-image-46990\" style=\"width:622px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411-46988001.jpg 718w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411-46988001-380x306.jpg 380w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, Tales of the Abyss was never supposed to have a mascot character. During the game\u2019s development, Anabuki came up with the idea to have a cute character carry the Sorcerer\u2019s Ring \u2013 a key item for dungeon exploration that appears multiple times throughout the Tales Of series. He believed that attributing the features of the ring to a cute animal-like character would result in the game being a much more fun and engaging experience for the players. The screenwriter, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jerry_cat\/status\/1909537829472157781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miyajima Takumi<\/a>, who had already started writing the script at that time, was in for a shock when Anabuki came and casually told her \u201cThis time, the sorcerer\u2019s ring will be an animal.\u201d This proposal had caused much chaos as it was required for the script to be completely rewritten, but Miyajima managed to push through \u2013 and thus, the character of Mieu was born. Miyajima later confessed in an interview that the model and main inspiration for Mieu was Anabuki himself!\u00a0\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\">\u6771\u4eac\u30de\u30e9\u30bd\u30f3\u3092\u8d70\u308a\u306a\u304c\u3089\u300e\u30c6\u30a4\u30eb\u30ba \u30aa\u30d6 \u30b8 \u30a2\u30d3\u30b9\u300f\u306e &quot;\u3042\u306e\u30b7\u30fc\u30f3&quot; \u3092\u518d\u73fe\u3059\u308b\u2026\u2026\u3063\u3066\u3069\u3046\u3044\u3046\u3053\u3068\uff1f<br>\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u958b\u767a\u8005\u304c\u30b3\u30b9\u30d7\u30ec\u3092\u3057\u306642.195km\u3092\u5b8c\u8d70\u3057\u305f\u8a18\u9332<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HZfuvpJGNw\">https:\/\/t.co\/HZfuvpJGNw<\/a><br><br>2023\u5e74\u300c\u30e6\u30a4\u30c8\u300d\u30b3\u30b9\u3067\u5b8c\u8d70<br>2024\u5e74\u300c\u30ab\u30b5\u30cd\u300d\u30b3\u30b9\u3067\u5b8c\u8d70<br>2025\u5e74\u300c\u30eb\u30fc\u30af\u300d\u30b3\u30b9\u3067\u5b8c\u8d70\uff08\u30b7\u30fc\u30f3\u518d\u73fe\u3042\u308a\uff09\u2190NEW <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xp5tggexJf\">pic.twitter.com\/Xp5tggexJf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u96fb\u30d5\u30a1\u30df\u30cb\u30b3\u30b2\u30fc\u30de\u30fc (@denfaminicogame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/denfaminicogame\/status\/1909441967492415802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anabuki has participated in the Tokyo marathon three times, and each time, he cosplayed one of his characters \u2013 the first time it was Yuito Sumeragi and the second time it was Kasane Randall, both characters being from Scarlet Nexus. In a dubiously official Q&amp;A gathering of the creators of Tales of the Abyss on X Spaces, held every year on its anniversary day, he decided that he will be cosplaying as Luke at the 2025 Tokyo marathon, as it would be the perfect way to celebrate the game\u2019s 20th anniversary. He believes that it is <strong>important for developers to openly show love for their character, as that\u2019s also a way to express gratitude towards all the people who played the game<\/strong> and still love the characters to this day. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenji Anabuki talks about his work on Tales of the Abyss and reveals how Mieu was created, all after running a full marathon in Luke cosplay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":46989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-46988","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>Tales of the Abyss developer reveals chaotic origin story of Mieu, runs full marathon in Luke fon Fabre cosplay - 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