A blog? How modern. Or, no... I guess it's a little late for that. Nevermind. I'm the director Nomura.

The staff asked us to write our first entry, but I was just too busy. But it was around TGS that Yasue was going to update, so I put a stop to it. I'm very sorry.

Between then and now we've already announced the release date. Now all we have to do is finish it. But we still have tons of things to do, and we're in the middle of running around trying to get everything finished. Right now on my desktop I have 5 files containing work for Birth by Sleep, 4 for Coded, and 7 for other titles.

They're listed in order of precedence, and now as I'm writing this the time for these files has finally come.

Of course there are not only written documents, but pictures I have been needing to draw have been waiting for me to get around to it. Right now the most important being the package art for Birth by Sleep.

Today I have to go to edit the Staff Roll. Since there are three main characters in Birth by Sleep, we also have different Staff Rolls for each one. We already have experience making two for Chain of Memories, but this time it's a little bit different and we have a little bit of a trick with each, so it's quite difficult.

In the Kingdom Hearts series when we put the music into the Staff Roll, we aren't just lining up the music second by second, but frame by frame. So we're working hard to find a good way to time it.

We also still have the Opening Movie, the Secret Movie, the CM and the PV to edit. But that will be on a later day. Next week we will be working on the CM for FFXIII.

So we're working quite hard now, and I have to get going. I have to get to the editing studio. When I have another opportunity I will write again soon. Thank you.

Director
Tetsuya Nomura