PEOPLE: - Kaori Miyachi. Assistant Producer for Emio – The Smiling Man. Coordinator for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. - Yoshio Sakamoto, age 65. Producer of Emio – The Smiling Man. QUOTE: Miyachi: One day during development [of Emio: The Smiling Man], I was surprised to receive several DVDs, some of which were gory or horror-movie-like. Sakamoto-san insisted that I watch them... I pleaded with him, ‘These really aren't my cup of tea,’ but he insisted, ‘Please, I need you to watch them.’ So I plucked up the courage, and they were...actually quite interesting! I learned so much from them and understood what Sakamoto-san wanted to express. Sakamoto: The pauses, use of sound, cuts, and cut transitions in the games are all influenced by what I've seen, so I wanted Miyachi-san to watch all those different works to understand where my inspiration came from.

Miyachi & Sakamoto on how they aligned with each others' creative influences for Emio, 2024.

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PEOPLE: - Kaori Miyachi. Assistant Producer for Emio – The Smiling Man. Coordinator for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. - Yoshio Sakamoto, age 65. Producer of Emio – The Smiling Man. QUOTE: "Miyachi: [Sakamoto] asked me to come up with a key event that would kick off the investigation [in Emio – The Smiling Man]. Q: This was again without much information? Miyachi: Here's the brief I got: ‘An older brother's well-meaning actions towards his sister incur her anger.’ That was it. I had no idea when or why this event would occur, or how the incident would begin, so I was at a complete loss. [Laughs] It was definitely a crazy demand. … Sakamoto: I had a good reason for withholding that information. I needed Miyachi-san to read the finished plot for the first time to judge whether it was interesting or not. It would've been pointless if she hadn't read it with a completely fresh mind."

Miyachi on Sakamoto's crazy demands for Emio – The Smiling Man, 2024.

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PEOPLE: - Kaori Miyachi. Assistant Producer of Emio – The Smiling Man. Coordinator for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. - Yoshio Sakamoto, age 65. Producer of Emio – The Smiling Man. QUOTE: "Miyachi: Come to think of it, one of the many crazy demands [from Sakamoto] was to draw lots of smiling faces. I drew several, casting my mind back to my childhood and even drawing some with my non-dominant hand. In the end, he combined the eyes and mouth from two of my drawings, added a nose, and that image was used as the prototype for the smiling-face paper bag that appears in key scenes [Emio – The Smiling Man]. [Laughs]"

Miyachi on Sakamoto asking her to draw smiling faces for Emio – The Smiling Man, 2024.

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