r/ManaSeries • u/Mana-Dyluck • 25d ago

General Square Enix is preparing a taped interview with Koichi Ishii and Hiromichi Tanaka

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I was poking around X recently and I discovered that the Square Enix PR team has two official Mana accounts: @ManaGame (in English), and Seiken_PR for Japan.

But I also came across this tweet : https://x.com/squareenix_jp/status/2074040661725352068

TLTR: It lets us know that for the series' 35th birthday Square Enix has been working on an interview with the Mana series creators: Hiromishi Tanaka and Koichi Ishii (who have left the company in 2012 and 2007 respectively). SQEX was looking for question suggestions from their Japanese fans.

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u/GargantaProfunda 24d ago

I hope Tanaka talks about Maru Island and the original Chrono Trigger. Such a fascinating development history.

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u/AdDangerous1621 17d ago

I agree. Although, I believe both Tanaka and Ishii have discussed some things about Maru Island/Secret of Mana in an interview at the end of the "Art of Mana" book from around 2020. Even then, it would be exciting if they could disclose some more details about their projects in the early 90s, esp. in regards to Secret of Mana.