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Kazeori
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Independent studio building thoughtful tools for language and character expression. Currently developing JCVS, an offline Japanese dialogue editor for indie games.

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JCVS #15 is up: polite words, murderous intent.

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#GameDev #Localization
Extreme close-up of Tokugawa Yoshimune in rough black-ink manga, with a piercing, intensely serious stare. A jagged speech balloon reads 成敗 (seibai), meaning punishment or judgment.
October 26, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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JCVS devlog #14 is up: Osaka and Kyoto, two character voices.

Sincere praise—or a hidden jab? A smile doesn't tell the whole story.

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#GameDev #Localization
Black-and-white manga sketch of two fictional women chatting: an understated Kyoto woman smiling behind a floral fan, and a cute Osaka woman in leopard print with wavy hair and a half-up bun, grinning and gesturing with both hands. Black-and-white manga sketch of the same women. The Kyoto woman smiles behind her fan while the Osaka woman touches her chin with a puzzled expression. A small !? above her head suggests uncertainty about whether she has received praise or a teasing remark.
October 24, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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JCVS devlog #13 is up: Kansai dialect, character stereotypes, and preserving the original intent.

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Black-and-white manga sketch of a sly, smiling female merchant in plain clothing, rubbing her empty hands together. Black-and-white manga sketch of two female manzai performers, one making a playful joke and the other reacting with an incredulous gesture.
October 23, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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I've posted JCVS devlog #12: Japanese sentence endings, character voice, and how dialogue flows. Plus a short development update.

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12. Sentence Endings, Character Voice, and the Flow of Dialogue
Hello again. First, a short update on JCVS. Development hit a major obstacle and stalled for a while. At one point, I felt I was about 80% of the way there. But as I tried to handle the complexities o...
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October 22, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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I've published a KEIGAI devlog about its RPG roots, auto-battler structure, and the fighting game ideas behind its risk and reward.

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KEIGAI: From an RPG Combat Concept to Building a Fighting Style
KEIGAI / 継骸 is a single-player mech-building game with automatic combat. You assemble your machine and configure its behavior before deployment. In this first devlog, I want to talk about how the...
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October 22, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Build your mech. Design the fight.
KEIGAI / 継骸: fitting, combat rules and automatic battles in 26 seconds.
Windows · Japanese/English
Launch price (no end date): US$2.99 / ¥500
kazeori.itch.io/keigai
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October 21, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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KEIGAI / 継骸 is out now for Windows.
Build your mech, set its combat behavior, and watch it fight.
Single-player. Japanese & English.

Launch price (no end date set):
itch.io US$2.99 kazeori.itch.io/keigai
BOOTH ¥500 kazeori.booth.pm/items/9023608
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KEIGAI / 継骸 cover: pale green line art of a bulky humanoid mech on a dark terminal-style background. Text reads ASSEMBLE, CONTROL, OBSERVE, and kazeori.
October 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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I imagine a dependable character telling a commander 「了解しました」 (“Understood”), then a younger sibling 「うん、わかった」 (“Okay, got it”). To my Japanese ear, the change can reveal another side of the same person.
October 21, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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I imagine two characters walking home. 「寒い。」 and 「寒いね。」 can both be “It’s cold.” To my Japanese ear, adding ね can make the line feel like a small invitation to share that moment together.
October 17, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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“Are you coming too?” I imagine one friend asking another 「一緒に来る？」 (Coming along?). There’s no あなた (“you”) or name in the Japanese line. To my ear, that can feel perfectly natural when the scene makes it clear who is being asked.
October 15, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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I’m building JCVS for indie VN/RPG creators who don’t read Japanese. My goal is to help bring their written dialogue into Japanese while keeping each character’s personality and way of speaking.

Prototype in development.
Devlog: kazeori.itch.io/jcvs-japanes...
October 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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I imagine a character who always calls a friend お前 (omae, “you”), then suddenly uses their name. To my Japanese ear, that can feel unusually serious—or quietly affectionate, depending on the scene. The change catches my attention because it breaks their usual pattern.
October 10, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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お前 (omae) can sound close or hostile to me. An old friend and a stranger saying it bring very different scenes to mind.

More in JCVS Devlog #11:
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11. What “You” Can Tell Me About a Relationship
Last time, I wrote about the different ways people refer to themselves in Japanese. This time, I’d like to talk about how we address other people. お前 ( omae ), 君 ( kimi ), あなた ( anata )...
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October 8, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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俺 and オレ both mean “I” and sound the same. But オレ makes me picture a cheekier, younger character.

More personal impressions in JCVS Devlog #10:
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10. What “I” Can Tell Me About a Character
Sometimes, a character’s choice of “I” is enough for me to start picturing the person speaking. JCVS has hit a tricky patch, so development is moving a little slowly at the moment. In the meanti...
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October 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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JCVS has hit a tricky patch, so progress is a little slow at the moment.

In the meantime, here are a native Japanese speaker’s personal impressions of different forms of “I” in fictional dialogue. 1/4
October 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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I’ve concluded that my current approach can’t deliver the quality I want for JCVS.

I’m making a major change to its development approach, so it may take much longer to finish than I’d hoped.

I’ll make sure the result is a better tool. Thank you for your patience.
September 28, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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Face the attack. Turn it into a counter.

A new 15-second trailer for KAMAE, my turn-based roguelike about positioning, facing, and parrying.

Out now in Early Access for Windows.
kazeori.itch.io/kamae

#Roguelike #TurnBased
September 24, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Alongside JCVS, I've been making KAMAE: a compact turn-based roguelike about positioning, facing, and parrying.

Now in Early Access for Windows: $3.99.
kazeori.itch.io/kamae

#IndieGame #Roguelike
September 23, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Some of JCVS’s hardest cases are lines that sound a little unusual, but might be fine as they are.

I wrote about what’s still difficult in devlog #9:
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9. What Is Proving Difficult in JCVS Right Now
Hello again. Most of my recent posts have talked about what I want JCVS to do. This time, I would like to talk about the other side of development: What is still difficult. The prototype works, but tu...
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September 20, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Sometimes a polite character gets angry. Sometimes the joker stops joking.

While testing JCVS, I’m thinking about the changes in voice I’d want to keep.

Devlog #8:
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8. Consistency Does Not Mean Speaking the Same Way
Hello again. While testing JCVS, I keep returning to one problem: What does it actually mean for a character to sound consistent? At first, the answer may seem simple. A character should use the same....
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September 15, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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JCVS works on my machine. Now I’m thinking about someone opening it for the first time 🙂

A new devlog on the work between a prototype and a product:
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7. From a Prototype to Something I Can Sell
Hello again, and thank you for following the development of JCVS. The prototype works. But recently, I have been thinking a lot about a simple difference: A working prototype is not the same thing as....
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September 11, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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Lately, working on JCVS has meant looking at the same dialogue quite a few times 🙂

I’m checking how consistently it responds, and where it still needs work.

A little update on what I’m testing:
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6. What I’m Testing in JCVS Right Now
Hello again. Now that the first working prototype of JCVS exists, most of my time is being spent on something less visible than adding new features: testing the same things again and again. A prototyp...
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September 7, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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I’ve published the fifth JCVS development post:

**What I Want JCVS to Become**

The prototype is now working, so this time I wrote about the principles behind JCVS — and the kind of localization tool I ultimately want it to become.

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5. What I Want JCVS to Become
What I Want Japanese Character Voice Studio to Become Hello, and thank you for following the development of JCVS. The first working prototype now exists. That means the project has reached an importan...
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September 3, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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Sometimes the best edit is no edit at all.

JCVS shouldn’t rewrite every line. If a line works, it should leave it alone. And when it suggests a change, it should explain why.

More here:
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4.What Makes JCVS Different?
Hello again. This time, I want to talk about what JCVS is trying to do differently. The basic idea is simple: Do not treat every dialogue line as an isolated sentence. Before a sentence exists, there....
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August 31, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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A working prototype of JCVS is already running.

Right now, I’m testing the full workflow repeatedly and fixing the small problems that show up along the way. It still needs some polishing, but the first release is taking shape.
August 30, 2026 at 2:25 AM