In the Spring of 2022, a promotional event was held on location in Yokosuka to celebrate the anime adaptation of Shenmue, Shenmue The Animat...

In this post we examine and translate an early Shenmue design document which gives some interesting insight into some design changes made be...

Another new discovery by LemonHaze reveals that a special item of merchandise had once been planned for inclusion among the stock at the Tom...

In this post, Phantom River Stone examines Shenmue III design documents for an inn in Choubu. Going back three years to the very start o...

Introduction & Related Posts Several snippets of actual early design documents from the making of the first two games are cont...

Following our recent post translating  an early Shenmue design document for Hong Kong diners , I decided to collect together shots of the fa...

A little over a year ago, Yu Suzuki was jointly interviewed with Katsuhiro Harada (of Tekken fame) and during this briefly spoke about a ...

Introduction & Related Post The "Making of Shenmue" section of the 1998 Shenmue art book contains snippets of actual des...

The "Making of Shenmue" section of the 1998 Shenmue art book contains snippets of actual design documents from the making of ...

Following our look at the Tile Breaking job design document that was revealed by Yu Suzuki in a recent interview , we now turn our attentio...

A few weeks ago in a joint interview with Katushiro Harada, Yu Suzuki shared an early Shenmue project document that had not previously been...

I've been working over the past few days on the translation of a multi-page interview with Yu Suzuki was recently published online by Ja...