Today’s issue of Famitsu magazine is a really awesome one in celebration of it’s 30th Anniversary! Wow! Congrats! They have many pages detailing the history of modern video games, including a timeline chart that shows when each system was released and various rankings chosen by readers. Below are just a few clips of where Yoko Taro’s works were listed.
PlayStation 2: Most Memorable Ranking:
And Automata has gone up several ranks in the Top 40 Most Anticipated ranking!
ふとファミ通の最新号を読んでいたら、ニーアレプリカントが何だか凄い人気ゲームみたいなランキングに入ってて（PS3の思い出のゲームで1位…）、あまりの驚きにヨコオさんにLINEしてしまった…。いつからそうなったんだ…？俺は知らんうちに別の世界線にいるのか…？
— 齊藤陽介 Yosuke Saito (@SaitoYosuke_Z) June 2, 2016
I was reading the special 30th Anniversary Issue of Famitsu and saw that somehow NieR Replicant appears to be really popular (it made it to the top of the Most Memorable ranking for PS3). I was so shocked that I wrote to Yoko-san on Line… When did this happen…? Am I in another world or something…? ーYosuke Saito
「どこかで晒されて組織票が入った可能性が高い」という仮説のもとに小一時間検索したけど見つかりませんでした……投票してくれた皆様ありがとうございます…… pic.twitter.com/U99lA3wXvW
— yokotaro (@yokotaro) June 2, 2016
I thought perhaps “somebody talked about it online and got more people to vote for it,” but when I tried to search for something like this, I couldn’t find anything…… Thanks to everyone who voted…… ーYoko Taro
そして、ファミ通さん３０周年お祝いコメントもこっそりハシラ部分に載せていただきました。政治的主張としてガバス本位制への移行を強く推進しておきました……
— yokotaro (@yokotaro) June 2, 2016
And they secretly printed my comment along the side of the page in the 30th Anniversary issue. I strongly suggested that we switch over to the Gavas* standard as a political statement…… ーYoko Taro
* The Gavas was a sort of point monetary system back when the magazine was known as “Famicom Tsushin”. You could collect these points and use them to redeem items like a new Nintendo Gamecube or PS3.
I didn’t know he made a comment somewhere in the magazine (I quickly flipped through it because I was at work), so I had to take another closer look to find his comment… and here it was, on p.231!
I’ve edited the picture on the left to easily display his comment here. Please check the translation below!
Happy 30th anniversary! Incidentally, I’ll pay all the editors’ salary in Gavas, so let’s switch over to the “Gavas standard”. ーYoko Taro
Source: Famitsu Magazine, Issue No.1435 (June 2, 2016)
Translated and Edited by: Fire Sanctuary