New Ghibli PS2 Game

Yoshiharu Sato, character designer for Romeo’s Blue Skies and Dog of Flanders, and animation supervisor on My Neighbor Totoro, will be providing the character designs for a Playstation 2 adventure game from Taito tentatively titled Rakugaki RPG. According to The Magic Box, “In the game you can give life to rakugaki (graffiti) by drawing them with the angel’s pen. The ability of the rakugaki changes when you use different color and pen strokes, it can also grow stronger and learn new abilities by battling with other characters.” The game is scheduled for release in December, at 6800 yen.