
Wowowowowowwowow I can’t believe it! An email just arrived from Square Enix. I actually passed the first interview! :O Somebody pinch me!
I really thought I was gonna fail. The first session was super difficult. Before the actual oral interview, I had to sit for a 2-hour exam, writing my essay-formatted answers for 8 questions in all glorious Kanji-fied Japanese! Apart from coming up with game ideas, the questions ranged from having to write character conversations all the way to drawing storyboards for an opening sequence. All this within a short period of 15 minutes each question :S
Couldn’t expect any less from a company that has “telling a good story” in its mission statement.
I had so many detailed ideas in my head but they were all in English, so having to write it in Japanese means I had to limit my answers to simple vocabs and even simpler kanjis :P Knowing 1000 kanjis is not enough, let alone knowing how to write only half of them! Glad that Square Enix looked past my language skills and saw my actual game design, conversations and storyline ideas.
Super big thanks to everyone who wished me good luck the other day. Couldn’t have done it without you guys :)
It’s still too early to celebrate though. Onwards to the second level, sometime next week. Ikuzo~!



A truly underrated anime. Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora is a tragic but bittersweet story of two sick teenagers who met in a hospital. What I like about it is that almost the entire show is set in that hospital, so the imagery of being sick within a confined environment with bad news coming to you at any moment is conveyed rather powerfully.




Niea_7. A very unique slice-of-life setting of aliens living among humans in a laid-back rural neighbourhood. That’s the reason for its self-proclaimed “domestic poor animation” lol. Man, you gotta love that voice.





We all should know the power of Zun by now. He created a game universe called Touhou (

















































































