Thatโs a wrap on TGS 2026!! ๐ญ๐
Thank you all who stopped by for photos! A lot of friends and fans stopped by, thank you all so much! ๐คโจ
Iโm looking forward to what Lollipop chainsaw has in store for us! โจ๐
#TGS2026#lollipopchainsaw
I watched the Lollipop Chainsaw 2 TGS stream and they just confirmed a few things
- Director Nasu confirms they are not using genAI for the game and that the game is human made
- The original character artist NekoshowguN and scenario writer Masahiro Yuki from the first game are returning for the sequel reprising their roles
- The Development Director of the game is Yasuaki Nasu (FF7 BC, KH Coded/ReCoded game designer, FF Versus XIII, FFXV Dev manager)
- Hajime Tabata (FF7 CC, FF Type-0 and FFXV director) is Co-producer, not the director like previously reported
- The game is being made on Unreal Engine 5 as development images show, not on some "AI engine" people were claiming, it is UE5 and not using the "OwnWorld" middleware that was listed on their website for a separate project either.
- The game is very early in development and they say there will be Comic Book stylings and they will polish up the game
Since JP Universe's development side JP Games is involved that would also mean the following staff listed on the JP Games website are also most likely involved in the game
- Tetsuya Imamura (DoA2, DoA3, DoA4, Ninja Gaiden Battle Action/Enginer, Ninja Gaiden 2 Combat Designer)
- Tomohiro Hasegawa (TWEWY Co-Director, KH2 Artist, FF Versus XIII Art Director, FFXV Monster Art Director)
- Akira Iwata (Agni's Philosphy character designer, FFXV 3DCG artist)
- Kenichi Shida (KH2 animator, FF Versus XIII, FFXV Dev manager)
- Naoyuki Ohashi (FF Type-0, FFXV Battle/Action Engineer)
- Tomoharu Oiyama (Agni's Philosophy, FFXV, Kingsglaive Technical Artist)
- Kimitoshi Tsumura (FFIX, FFX, FFXI, FFXII, FFXIII, FFXIV, FFXV CG Designer)
- Hiromitsu Sasaki (DefJam Art Director, FFXV Lead Backround Artist)
Ryoto Shinzato (FF7 BC, KH ReCoded, FF Type-0, FFXV Background Artist)
The studio is comprised of only around 50 staff members, and while JPUniverse does involve itself in GenAI slop for some of their smaller projects, they assure that Lollipop Chainsaw 2 is human made and not using Gen AI and that they have an internal policy to do it on a case by case level.
โ Awh, sorry about that.
I think that was the mailman, before he tried to eat my brains! โ
Squeaking coming from the rag she's wiping down the flat of the saw.
@LifeIsDestroy Of course it's the thing ... this sucks balls!
Thanks for the heads up, I better go deal with them before they start getting all melty with my face on!