August 14th, 2024
What is MNY?
Mugai na Yume (or Harmlessly Dreaming) is the title of my next major project that I'm working on with Reteryisk and POST ELVIS. Where Almari was inspired by OFF, Yume Nikki, and UNDERTALE with the desire to be popular and gradually became more personal and inspired by other things I love (SaGa Frontier, Dark Cloud, and ANODYNE), Harmlessly Dreaming is the culmination of many other projects I've had over the years with very close friends as well as stand alone concepts that never quite found their feet. It's a special home for very old OCs that wish to breathe new life as well as new ones boldly stepping into the limelight.
Here I wish to more prominently show my other influences, with a primal desire to throw Persona 1 and Junji Ito into a blender (among other things). There are currently two (and a half?) MNYs in development, one taking influence from the former plus the works of Shuzo Oshimi, Rei Mikamoto, Kazuma Kaneko, and Kazuki Takahashi, and the other taking influence from Shaman King, Yu Yu Hakusho, The King of Fighters, and The World Ends With You, and the remaining half perhaps is Silent Hill and Hirohiko Araki? I'm not sure yet.
There are some existing music videos that may drive you closer to my vision, but they may also drive you further away?
Truly the purpose of MNY is to tell smaller scale stories through shorter RPGs. Something I enjoy quite a bit about Junji Ito's work is the self-contained nature of each story that can later be expanded upon if he wishes. I want to capture that power myself, and thus there will probably be more than 2.5 (idk man im just cooking here).
So what is Mugai na Yume about? Truthfully there isn't much to publicly say at this time, but maybe you've seen some of these videos for it floating around?
Now what happens from there, perhaps that's up to... You? ...You? ...You? ...You? ...You? ...You? ...You?
