#takumi Shu

[apollolewis]

If we ever get aa7 I really want the original director to come back, Ace attorney is at its best when it’s written and directed by Takumi Shuu. Honestly I’d be happy if he was overseeing it in any way. I pretty much love all of the games he’s written for and directed that I’ve played.

#ace attorney #ghost tricks #shu takumi #takumi Shu #game industry #capcom #the great ace attorney

[golden-snackoos]

thinking about aa5-6 makes me crazy

#ace attorney #ema skye #simon blackquill #nahyuta sahdmadhi #bobby fulbright #my-art #blackmadhi #i'm gonna need shu takumi to come back for aa7 #i just know he'll bring back ema i just know it #and klavier #athena cykes

[doorwood]

Ghost Trick is fantastic

#ghost trick #fan art #shu takumi #sissel #lynne

[chaosmax]

"Romantic love is the strongest love there is"

WRONG Shu Takumi made a wholeass game with his dog as one of the most important characters immortalizing him for eternity and touching the feelings of everyone who played the game making everyone care about him too tHiS is the strongest form of love

#missile ghost trick #ghost trick #shu takumi

[koobiie]

me when im a ghost and do a trick

this was originally a posca drawing! here's the original and a couple doodles -

#ghost trick #missile #traditional art #digital art #koob art #procreate #me attempting to hide spoiler-esque tags lol #sissel #yomiel #anyways very good game. i recommend #shu takumi cant stop weaving narrative tapestries #this wasnt originally gonna be a post and was just gonna be posca doodles #but then iwas like well these doodles are so schloppy i might as well try and digitalize them for fun #and then i was like. well i already went thru the effort. guess ill post it lol

[hillelart]

June and Santa from Zero Escape drawn in the Ghost Trick artstyle

#ghost trick #zero escape #zero escape 999 #9 hours 9 persons 9 doors #akane kurashiki #aoi kurashiki #shu takumi #kotaro uchikoshi #nintendo ds #fan art #video game fanart #video games #adventure games #ds games #crossover #art style #digital art #digital illustration #illustration #fanart #hillelart

[thisisutl]

The real dog that inspired Ghost Trick's "Missile".

As many people on Tumblr have already pointed out, Ghost Trick is a game that is best experienced going in fully-blind. It offers amazing puzzle-based gameplay, a charming cast of characters and a unique story with plenty of twists and turns that will leave you both stunned and fulfilled by the end. My one true regret with the game is that I can't experience it for the first time again.

So, in trying to hype up the game for its release on Steam, Switch, Playstation and XBox, I decided to go for a novel approach: Instead of gushing about the game and potentially spoiling it for you, I will instead offer some facts about the real-life dog that inspired one of the game's most memorable characters. Knowing those facts won't spoil the game for you and will in fact make you appreciate its story a whole lot more, so feel free to reblog away, adding any facts that I might have missed about the game's Charismatic Cheerful Capable Caring Canine.

You know… This adorable little guy: 

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Missile Takumi!

Missile was a pomeranian Puppy adopted by Shu Takumi on 2007. He was named after a dog appearing in Gyakuten Saiban 1 (aka Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney 1). The dog in the original game was a throwaway gag, not essential in the overall game’s story. The real-life  little pomeranian however proved to be an essential part of Shu Takumi’s life.

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(More facts after the break)

Missile was Shu Takumi’s best friend. The little doggie was always there for him, always available to lift his spirits with a cheerful bark when he was feeling down and always offering a friendly paw even in the gloomiest of circumstances. Missile was a truly loyal friend, offering unconditional love and friendship, helping Shu Takumi get over even the most difficult of times.

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So when time came to make Ghost Trick, a game about ghosts, regrets, mystery, loyalty, friendship and ultimate redemption, it was perfectly natural for Shu Takumi to give his best little friend a part in the story.

The game’s developers didn’t initially want to put Missile in the game. They didn’t have a problem with putting a dog as a character, they had a problem with the fact that the dog was a Pomeranian and they would have problems animating his fur in-game. Shu Takumi however insisted and eventually, after meeting the little doggie and falling under its charm, the developers relented into putting him in the game in all his Pomeranian glory.

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Not only did they put him in the game, in fact, they went above and beyond in capturing his charm perfectly. They studied his moves and mannerisms, in order to get his movements down pat.

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Missile’s iconic in-game bark was actually a recording of sound-designer’s Nobuyuki Shimizu Labrador Retriever who was coincidentally also named Missile! Shu Takumi wanted to record his own Missile, but Shimizu-san also wanted to put a part of his own dog in the game and Takumi eventually relented.

So, yeah, Missile in the game was voiced by Missile. Just not THE Missile.

In order to make up for not recording his own dog for the game Shu Takumi made a “character song” for Ghost Trick’s Missile:. 

Yes, those barks you hear in the song are recordings of THE Missile, no substitutes this time! This is how the little Pomeranian used to bark!

The song was made to celebrate Ghost Trick’s 3rd year release anniversary and even though the song talks about Ghost Trick’s Missile, a lot of the behaviors mentioned in the lyrics (such as Missile’s tendency to climb on the sofa and then needing help to get back down) are things that Takumi’s pomeranian friend used to do.

The song was later remade by CAP-JAMS and included in the soundtrack of the 2023 remaster of the game.

And, yes, the original Missile’s barks are still there.

If it’s not perfectly clear, Shu Takumi really wanted to tell everyone how awesome his little dog was. He made the little dog an essential part of Ghost Trick and stealthily  made the world, at least that small part of it that played Ghost Trick, fall in love with him.

Ghost Trick was released under critical acclaim, even receiving a nomination for Gamespot’s Best 2011 Puzzle Game, but the fact that it was released near the end of the DS’s lifespan and a lackluster advertising campaign made it 2011’s “Best Game You’ve Never Played”.

The game, however, slowly gained a cult following and within that following, the story of Missile resonated with everyone and became one of its standout points. He might not have been the player-character but he was definitely the show-stealer.

(To tell any more would be going into spoiler territory, but seriously go buy and play Ghost Trick any way you can. It really deserves a bigger audience).

So beloved was the little dog in fact that when Ace Attorney was eventually adapted into an anime, the animators couldn’t resist putting him into episodes 13 and 30 of the first and second season respectively. In fact, in the anime Missile was indirectly responsible for the “class trial” incident that shaped Naruhodo/Wright’s life.

Before you ask, no, Missile was not voicing himself this time (something about working with animals and children). He was voiced by Tomokazu Seki in the Japanese version and by Kyle Hebert in the English dub. Still a nice tribute to Takumi’s little doggie.

One final Missile fact that I can’t find a proper segway for is that Missile also got along surprisingly well with Wagahai and Sankichii, the cats that later also entered the Takumi household, though, the way Takumi tells this, it was the cats that called the shots more often than not. 

Missile passed away on the 10th of November 2018. The way Shu Takumi puts it, the valiant little doggie waited for him to return from the US, to spend some final time with him before passing on. We don’t know the exact details just that it was sudden and unexpected.

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Missile is no longer with us, but his memory lives on. He will always be remembered by Shu Takumi as the friend that always was by his side… and always will be with him.

…and he will always be remembered by the gaming community as the little Pomeranian that stole everybody’s hearts and made Ghost Trick a truly memorable experience.

MISSAIRU TONDEKE! 

(Missile’s Launched!)

#ghost trick #missile #puppy #shu takumi #ace attorney #Seriously play Ghost Trick NOW! Thank me later. #Youtube

[joybeantown]

I drank too much coffee and locked in so heres a sissel chibi i love ghost trick so much

#joybeantowndraws #ghost trick #ghost trick phantom detective #sissle ghost trick #me the mystery #yomiel ghost trick #i havent drawn him in so long but still gotta be in my top 5 games #needs more cats >:) #drawing #clip studio paint #illustration #shu takumi games my beloved #PLAY GHOST TRICK

[doggendoodle]

do i have this right

edit: turns out i missed a few

#ace attorney #danganronpa #infinity series #never 7 #ever 17 #remember 11 #12riven #professor layton #ghost trick #ghost trick phantom detective #rain code #master detective archives: rain code #zero escape #ai: the somnium files #aitsf #shu takumi #takeshi yamazaki #kazutaka kodaka #takumi nakazawa #kotaro uchikoshi #akihiro hino #capcom #spike chunsoft #kindle imagine develop #too kyo games #graphs #flowchart #maybe flowchart was the wrong word. it's more like a. #family tree

[okiroash]

it doesn't wash away

#cw moldy food #cw gore #ghost trick #ghost trick spoilers #yomiel #can't get enough of speed arms yomiel... thanks shu takumi #unhappy birthday for yomiel.. my friend gave me the idea about yomiel getting himself a cake even though he can't eat... #a semblance of normalcy... a reminder that he's aging.. #4th picture inspired by abuse-ken's song “Ikill” I don't know the lyrics but wow.. the instruments.. #👁‍🗨!

[key-lime-soda]

shu takumi and his dog Missile make me emotional everytime I think about them. just a guy who loves his dog enough to put it in both of his franchises (missile in ghost trick and pess in ace attorney). rip <3

#shu takumi #ghost trick #ace attorney #ahdudxushdjsksjss #forgot how much this got to me #sorry ant

[tunaricebowl]

my dual destinies art book finally came in and i’m cackling at this artwork, absolutely love the ghost trick reference

#ace attorney #gyakuten saiban #dual destinies #gyakuten saiban 5 #ace attorney dual destinies #apollo justice #odoroki housuke #athena cykes #kidzuki kokone #juniper woods #morizumi shinobu #artbook #the art of phoenix wright #tuna stuff #ghost trick #sissel #yomiel #capcom #shu takumi #ace attuna #tuna collection

[mysteryterror-art]

ghost trick grahh

#ghost trick #spirit box #Shu Takumi #sissel #missile

[breadbox-draws]

practice and revelatory goofs, starting with everyones favorite banana

(feat. a brief moment of okiroash’s fiansissel design!)

#ghost trick #ghost trick spoilers #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #ghost trick sissel #bread art #im inspired to do more- ive said in the discord but ill say again the folks making things in the gt fandom are amazing! #shu takumi parallels everywhere #maybe one day i’ll post something thats completely spoiler free jfhdnfjdj #unfortunately the whole game is a sPOILER

[lcfrsm0415]

! tgaa2/dgs2 spoilers !

when i finished tgaa2 i thought someone was missing on their family photo at the end, so i redrew it with yujin :>

#shu takumi invented found family trope #ace attorney #the great ace attorney #dai gyakuten saiban #kazuma asogi #ryuunosuke naruhodou #susato mikotoba #herlock sholmes #yujin mikotoba #iris sholmes #ace attorney art #art #artists on tumblr #sleepyhead #tgaa 2 spoilers

[infamouslydorky]

This is what I get for listening to "my way" by Frank Sinatra and now you all have to look at this fool

#manfred von karma #sketches #traditional art #ace attorney #you hear the lyrics of the song and it's like ''of course manfred sees himself that way. god. he's so pathetic. it's perfect'' #shu takumi knew what was up when he said Manfred does karaoke to that song