{"id":3225,"date":"2025-05-27T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rcgs.jp\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:47:43","slug":"2025%e5%b9%b4%e5%ba%a6%e7%ac%ac5%e5%9b%9e%e5%ae%9a%e4%be%8b%e7%a0%94%e7%a9%b6%e4%bc%9a%e3%80%8cdetectives-and-lost-empires-reimagining-holmes-through-japanese-game-narratives%e3%80%8d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rcgs.jp\/?p=3225","title":{"rendered":"2025\u5e74\u5ea6\u7b2c5\u56de\u5b9a\u4f8b\u7814\u7a76\u4f1a\u300cDetectives and Lost Empires: Reimagining Holmes through Japanese Game Narratives\u300d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detectives and Lost Empires: Reimagining Holmes through Japanese Game Narratives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25a0\u767a\u8868\u8005 Presenter
Mimi Okabe (Baruch College)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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June 20th\uff08Fri\uff0916:40\uff5e18:10

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This presentation offers a critical examination of Japanese video games that adapt and reinterpret the Sherlockian detective archetype, focusing on Dai Gyakuten Saiban (2015\u20132017) 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\u2019s 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 \u201cplayable counter-histories\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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