I’m going to be slowly working through the interview with Shouzou Kaga from the FE Treasure book, based off the scans at Serenes Forest. To my knowledge, this has never been translated before. When I’m done, I think I’ll contribute these all to Serenes Forest. In the meantime, enjoy the occasional update with questions.

To begin with, I personally like history, historical facts, from any nation. For example, when someone meets someone else, and from that small meeting, for the world the flow of events is altered… thinking deeply about it, there’s a lot of that stuff — and I’m terribly attracted to how interesting that is. If you just learn a little history, the fact is, within real history, political marriages, patricides, that kind of stuff happens of course — that’s reality.



Of course, judging from modern sensibilities, there are many people who think it’s extremely unpleasant. As for me, I’m absolutely not endorsing that kind of incest and patricide. I simply want to know how things were in history.



So, I say this a lot, but originally what I wanted to do most with Seisen no Keifu … was a full-scale dramatic saga. I wanted the players to grasp how much peoples’ mistakes changed the world.



There are some characters whose trivial acts ultimately and unintentionally cause a great change in the entire world. After a single mistake, within this world there is a possibility that something like this could happen — I wanted to send that message. In particular, I absolutely don’t mean to be preaching in this game or anything, but…. By playing the game, somehow or the other you’ll get that impression anyway, I think.

So even though I produce entertainment, these works shouldn’t be merely entertaining. That’s what I think, deep down.