{"id":92374,"date":"2024-07-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=92374"},"modified":"2024-10-17T01:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:16:53","slug":"rusty-rabbit-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/07\/22\/rusty-rabbit-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Urobuchi & Takaya Kuroda on Rusty Rabbit: We’re All Ears for This Tough Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the most prolific scriptwriters in anime, <\/span>Gen Urobuchi<\/b> is best known for <\/span>Fate\/Zero<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Madoka Magica<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Psycho-Pass<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Thunderbolt Fantasy<\/span><\/i>. Often dubbed \u201cThe Butcher,\u201d many fans would recognize his work that delves\u00a0 deep into dark psychological thrillers, and many of these works are a complete labor of love. Urobuchi\u2019s newest project, <\/span>Rusty Rabbit<\/span><\/i><\/a>, is a video game that stemmed from his personal hobbies and after seeing an image of a <\/span>Sylvanian family doll rabbit in a junker mech<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Rusty Rabbit<\/span><\/i> is an upcoming 2D side scroller set in a time where humanity is long extinct, and the meek rabbits have inherited the Earth along with the ruins of the old human civilizations to be excavated by \u201crust diggers.\u201d The game\u2019s protagonist, Stamp<\/strong>, is a middle-aged rabbit who rust diggs with his trusty mech \u201cJunkster,\u201d and is on a mission to search for his estranged daughter. His old-soul personality is brought to life by <\/span>Takaya Kuroda<\/b>, best known for his role as <\/span>Kazuma Kiryu<\/strong> from the Like a Dragon\/Yakuza series, which is a hilarious meta parallel between the two characters.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At Anime Expo 2024, staff writers <\/span>Nico Monterosso<\/b> and <\/span>Mathew Liu<\/b> had the opportunity to sit down and interview Gen Urobuchi and Takaya Kuroda together about <\/span>Rusty Rabbit<\/span><\/i>. As long-time fan of the Like a Dragon series and Urobochi\u2019s works, we wanted to dive deep into\u00a0 Kuroda\u2019s performance as Stamp and understand Urobuchi\u2019s process going from conceptualizing his hobby into his first video-game production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This interview has been edited for clarity and was conducted on July 7th, 2024. Questions were also submitted by Melvyn Tan.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Urobuchi-san, your works historically are often quite macabre and rely on dark twists, like in <\/b>Madoka Magica <\/i><\/b>or <\/b>Fate\/Zero<\/i><\/b>. Given that <\/b>Rusty Rabbit<\/i><\/b> has been designed to be a charming and child-friendly game, how did that affect the scenario writing process?<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Gen Urobuchi:<\/b> This time, <\/span>Rusty Rabbit <\/span><\/i>wasn\u2019t a project that was brought to me from other producers, so it really kind of started as my hobby. It\u2019s not like other projects where you\u2019ll have really dark twists.<\/span><\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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The original post from 2015 that was Gen Urobuchi’s inspiration behind Rusty Rabbit<\/em>\u00a0 <\/span>