来る2025年6月20日(金曜日)、立命館大学ゲーム研究センターによる2025年度第5回定例研究会を実施致します。発表者は、Mimi Okabe氏です。登録・参加料不要となっております。お誘い合わせの上、奮ってご参加のほど、お待ちしております。
The Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies will hold its 5th workshop
of the 2025 academic year on Friday, June 20th, 2025. The presenter will be Mimi Okabe. Registration is not required, and there is no participation fee. We look forward to your active participation.
■発表タイトル Title
Detectives and Lost Empires: Reimagining Holmes through Japanese Game Narratives
■発表者 Presenter
Mimi Okabe (Baruch College)
■日時 Date and Time
6月20日（金） 16:40～18:10
June 20th（Fri）16:40～18:10
■場所 Venue
立命館大学衣笠キャンパス 学而館研究会室 3 アクセス
Ritsumeikan Kinugasa Campas, Gakujikan Reserch Room 3 Access
【Zoom】
https://ritsumei-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/91015543036?pwd=ekdpOG9jdkJwMWtILzB6VU8rcUxLZz09
ミーティングID: 910 1554 3036 パスコード: 031509
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■概要 Summary
This presentation offers a critical examination of Japanese video games that adapt and reinterpret the Sherlockian detective archetype, focusing on Dai Gyakuten Saiban (2015–2017) and Eikoku Tantei Mysteria (2013) as primary case studies. By situating classic British detective tropes within hybridized Neo-Victorian and Neo-Meiji cultural milieu, I show how these games evoke a complex nostalgia for Japan’s imperial past while mediating profound revisions of gender roles, imperial legacies, and cultural identities. By reimagining canonical figures such as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, these games foreground the agency of female and Japanese characters, producing what may be conceptualized as “playable counter-histories” that critically interrogate and destabilize dominant Anglo-European cultural scripts. This presentation shows how Japanese developers mobilize visual novel and mystery genres as transnational spaces of cultural negotiation where competing memories and desires come together in playful, affective and politically meaningful ways.