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[Early Access] toco toco - Keiichi Okabe

Hi all - our latest, and last (more to come in an upcoming Medium post), toco toco episode with composer Keiichi Okabe is now available for patrons in the Archivist tier. Okabe is the composer behind the NieR Replicant/Gestalt, Drakengard 3 or NieR: Automata soundtracks, he'll tell us more about ...

[New Video] toco toco - Atsushi Kaneko, Mangaka

Hi all! We just released our latest episode of toco toco, showcasing the universe of mangaka Atsushi Kaneko, known for Bambi, Soil or Deathco. 

"Pursuing the things that I like ends up in me clashing with the world.” - we followed Kaneko in his work and inspirations, as he shared wit...

[Early Access] toco toco - Atsushi Kaneko

Hi everyone,

Our latest video, a new episode of toco toco showcasing mangaka Atsushi Kaneko, is now available for patrons in the Archivist tier. With works that include Bambi, Soil, Wet Moon & Deathco, Kaneko opened up on his unconventional style, built from strong influences ranging fr...

New Tier - Early Access

Hi everyone! To those of you who are discovering our page, welcome to our Patreon, we hope you will consider supporting us in creating documentaries about Japanese creators, artists and diverse aspects of Japanese culture.

We started simple with our Patreon...

New video: toco toco - AC-bu

Hi everyone - no April Fool’s joke, we just released our latest toco toco episode, showcasing the animator unit AC-bu, formed by Toru Adachi and Shunsuke Itakura.

With works spanning over music videos, commercials, TV segments, all the way to over-the-top flip book animations, AC-bu bring...

Trying to "improve" our Patreon (and we need your help)

Hi everyone - as you are all aware, we started simple with our Patreon, just a single tier (1$ or more - we're already very thankful to all our patrons in that tier, giving 1$, more or sometimes much more!), no goals. However we feel that we can give more and improve this Patreon with new tiers a...

New video: Hidengen: ep 2 - board game makers

Hi all! 

Our latest episode of Hidengen is out, led again by graphic & game designer YACOYON, where we follow Makoto Tanaka (Tendays Games), Jun Sasaki (Oink Games) and Kosuke Fukumoto (Arclight), 3 key actors in the Japan’s board game scene. We will learn more about the evolving...

New Hidengen episode announcement

Hi - finishing up on a quite hectic week, but happy to share that we’ve found the time to close in on the 2nd episode to our Hidengen series. 

We will be shedding light on Tendays Games, Oink Games and Arclight, 3 key makers of Japan’s board game scene as we dive into their work an...

New video: Cutscenes - Jake Kazdal

Our first episode of Cutscenes is out!

After our Capcom shoot last month, we did a quick stop in Kyoto to meet with game industry veteran and 17-BIT founder Jake Kazdal, where we discussed VR (among other topics) around drinks and an amazing curry.

We hope you’ll enjoy & feel fr...

Introducing “Cutscenes”

Hi all, so I know this wasn’t in our last Patron update, but we’ve been working on developing shorter content, which we wanted to center around our passion for gaming. 

Tomorrow (if everything goes well…), we will be launching the first episode of “Cutscenes”, a new series pr...

New toco toco special and Patron update!

Hello!

This past few weeks has been quite hectic for us - we wanted to post this earlier but we’re glad to share that our latest toco toco went out last Monday! 

For our first video since the Patreon launch, we invested even more of our time and money than usual to shoot in Osa...

The First

Hi, we are still trying to find our way through Patreon, but if you are reading this post it means you are one of the first people to set foot on Archipel. Again, thank you for your support, it really means a lot to us. Attached is an original Archipel wallpaper, a representation of one of Archip...