Rachael Hutchinson is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Delaware.Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon is postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal.

A seminal book on the JRPG … The book’s origins stem from two events in 2019: the Replaying Japan Conference and the Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA) Conference hosted in Kyoto by the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies. The result is one of the most compelling interrogations of the JRPG.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Names and SourcesList of Figures and TablesIntroductionJérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael HutchinsonPart One: GenreChapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPGYuhsuke Koyama Chapter 2: Japan’s Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing GamesNökkvi Jarl BjarnasonChapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies: Comparing Mother and Final FantasyFanny BarnabéChapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel IIIJoleen BlomChapter 5: “Is JRPG Old Fashioned?”: Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black Rock Shooter: The GameJérémie Pelletier-GagnonPart Two: RepresentationChapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan’s America in EarthboundBenjamin WhaleyChapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of SeriesLoïc Mineau-MurrayChapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disabili

Rachael Hutchinson is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Delaware.Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon is postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal.

A seminal book on the JRPG … The book’s origins stem from two events in 2019: the Replaying Japan Conference and the Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA) Conference hosted in Kyoto by the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies. The result is one of the most compelling interrogations of the JRPG.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Names and SourcesList of Figures and TablesIntroductionJérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael HutchinsonPart One: GenreChapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPGYuhsuke Koyama Chapter 2: Japan’s Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing GamesNökkvi Jarl BjarnasonChapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies: Comparing Mother and Final FantasyFanny BarnabéChapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel IIIJoleen BlomChapter 5: “Is JRPG Old Fashioned?”: Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black Rock Shooter: The GameJérémie Pelletier-GagnonPart Two: RepresentationChapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan’s America in EarthboundBenjamin WhaleyChapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of SeriesLoïc Mineau-MurrayChapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disabili

Rachael Hutchinson is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Delaware.Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon is postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal.

A seminal book on the JRPG … The book’s origins stem from two events in 2019: the Replaying Japan Conference and the Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA) Conference hosted in Kyoto by the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies. The result is one of the most compelling interrogations of the JRPG.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Names and SourcesList of Figures and TablesIntroductionJérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael HutchinsonPart One: GenreChapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPGYuhsuke Koyama Chapter 2: Japan’s Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing GamesNökkvi Jarl BjarnasonChapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies: Comparing Mother and Final FantasyFanny BarnabéChapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel IIIJoleen BlomChapter 5: “Is JRPG Old Fashioned?”: Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black Rock Shooter: The GameJérémie Pelletier-GagnonPart Two: RepresentationChapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan’s America in EarthboundBenjamin WhaleyChapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of SeriesLoïc Mineau-MurrayChapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disabili