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This category page contains all official media including videos, books, and interviews that don't fit into particular game subcategories. The bottom of the page lists specialized categories such as merchandise, artwork, and individual media categories for each game.

Origins of Bokujou Monogatari

For full information, see the 2012 GDC Postmortem presentation.

Bokujou Monogatari 10th Anniversary

Ebisu Garden Room 10th Anniversary Presentation

• November 1, 2005 15:00-16:15 (Opened for seating at 14:30)^[1]

On November 1st, 2005, Marvelous held a presentation in Ebisu, Shibuya to announce the 10th anniversary projects - Innocent Life and Rune Factory.^[2] At the same time, the PC online game titled "Minna de Bokujou Monogatari" was announced.^[3] During the presentation, the first series media promotion girl - child actress Riko Narumi - was selected to represent the series in paid ad campaigns.^[4]

Guest speakers included:

• Bokujou Monogatari creator and director, Yasuhiro Wada (和田康宏)
• Innocent Life producer from Marvelous Interactive, Ogura Takeshi (おぐらたけし)
• ArtePiazza CEO, Shintaro Majima (眞島真太郎)
• Marvelous Interactive executive producer, Yoshifumi Hashimoto (はしもとよしふみ)
• Neverland Company President, Makoto Takada (高田誠)

It was also at this presentation that Wada announced he would no longer be making "For Girl" versions of titles, opting instead to include both gender options from the beginning. His reason for this was that fans were very vocal about wanting the change.^[5]

Bokujou Monogatari 10th Anniversary Memorial DVD

"With gratitude for the 10th anniversary...there are plenty of treasured videos that Bokumono fans can't miss!"^[6]

Contents:

• Thank you for 10 years! - A montage video of the series specially edited for this DVD!
• 10th Anniversary Memorial Movie - A short movie looking back on the history of the series thus far.
• Bokujou Monogatari History - Complete coverage of information regarding series works. Full of commercials and promotional videos!
• Bokujou Monogatari Gallery - Includes original drawings of cute characters by Matsuyama Igusa!
• Omake - Enjoy watching a special, secret video!?

"Thank you for 10 years!" Video

Wada's 10th Anniversary Comments

• Note: We do not currently have an audio transcription for this video. If you would like to provide one, please contact us.

Omake Video

File:Bokujou Official Media 10THANNV DVD Omake.ogv

2012 GDC Classic Game Postmortem

• GDC 2012 ran March 5 through March 9 in San Francisco, California.^[7]
• Note: We do not have any subtitles for this presentation. If you would like to provide them, please contact us.
  

In 2012, GDC reintroduced the "Classic Game Postmortem" segment. During the presentation ^[8], Wada discussed the process of developing the series and touched upon the origins of Back to Nature (Bokujou Monogatari: Harvest Moon). From Engadget's summary^[9]: "A team tasked with doing a port of the N64 game to the PSOne wound up changing a lot of character dialogue and names in the process, and by the time he found out about it, the game had nearly wrapped, leading to an inadvertent "parallel universe" Harvest Moon series." It was also revealed that marriage and family life mechanics were implemented due to female fans' idea of marriage being the "be-all, end all" goal of the game.

Bokujou Monogatari 15th Anniversary

Bokujou Monogatari 20th Anniversary

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