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Kimberly Godwin @kgodwin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First mockup of the character sheets I will be providing at @singularitysons.bsky.social and @tokyorpgsociety.bsky.social 's Kaijucon in Nagoya this year for my Call of Cthulhu scenario, Terminal 4. I still have 2 seats left if you want to play!

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And here is the part I love. The Minions live to serve a master. This time the Great Old One they fall under the spell of is Hollywood. Honestly, that is the most cosmic horror a Minion could face.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The film is crammed with homages to Hollywood from the 1920s onward. It is also set in the 1920s, the decade Lovecraft was writing in, and the classic era of Call of Cthulhu.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is a tentacled creature called Goomi who looks like he crawled straight out of R'lyeh. The monsters he makes are named Howard and Phillips. Somebody at Illumination knows exactly what they are doing.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I went to see Minions & Monsters expecting a light summer cartoon. I walked out clutching the programme and thinking about Lovecraft. (In Japan, cinemas still sell printed programmes for new films. I collect them.)🐙(T)

The Japanese cinema programme for Minions & Monsters. A glossy black cover with a round die-cut hole lies over a bright yellow inner page, where a single Minion stands in a spotlight.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The KaijuCon 2 T-shirt is real. Kasumi Lang's artwork, worn here by organizer Jesse Covner. On sale at the venue in Nagoya on 24 October. If you are in Japan that weekend, come and play🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Noob Day happened. Eleven people came to Second Home in Nagoya on Sunday, most of them trying a tabletop RPG for the first time, and played one long D&D game and two sessions of Call of Cthulhu. Tables in English and Japanese. The next one is the convention itself, 24 October🐙(Tomomi)

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Kimberly Godwin @kgodwin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doing some prep work for my site and my game at @singularitysons.bsky.social's Kaijucon next month in Nagoya. And also inspiring some conspiracies apparently. Anything on my desk is fair game for notes. Not like.. any of the notebooks I have in my office. Lol. Joys of being a writer.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thank you! We will post lots of photos from the day, so you can attend in spirit🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Two weeks to Noob Day. Sunday 13 September, 1:00 to 5:30pm at Second Home in Sakae, Nagoya. A free afternoon for absolute beginners. Tables in English and Japanese, no experience needed, twenty places. Email kaiju.convention@gmail.com to grab one🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Now the strange part. A Japanese fan survey found official editions in Italian, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian and Portuguese. In English? Almost nothing, as far as anyone can tell. One of Japan's greatest horror artists is invisible in English.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Mythos readers, he is one of ours. Lovecraftian shadows run through his work, sometimes openly. His comedy series Shiori and Shimiko even has a small pink neighbor called Cthulhu-chan.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Morohoshi has drawn folk horror and cosmic dread since 1970. Yokai Hunter. Dark Myth. Stories where archaeology, Shinto ritual and something far older meet in the mountains. He won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2000.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When I was young, the scariest manga on my shelf had no ghosts and no killers. It was about ancient things under the soil of Japan, patiently waiting. Daijiro Morohoshi taught me that history itself can be a horror story🐙(Tomomi)

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Chaosium's MOB sat down with Mexican horror site Círculo Lovecraftiano, and was asked a question he's never been asked before – interview available in Spanish and English!

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Unspeakable Lovecraftian Whispers - Michael O’Brien

Unspeakable Lovecraftian WhispersVoices that explore the arcane and the indescribable horrorMichael O’Brien — Vice President & co-owner Chaosium IncCultists of the Círculo Lovecraftiano & Horror, the ...

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Damon Lang @gamer-daemon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I recently finished #Metaphor ReFantazio, which was on my to-do list for 2 years. The themes of discrimination, injustice, turning anxiety into strength-- Considering everything happening in the world (even in my adopted home of Japan), it was just what I needed.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Honored to be one of the terrible objects. Yuggoth has rarely had such good company🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you’re in Nagoya and have ever thought about trying a tabletop RPG but never, we're running a free introduction on Sunday 13 September, 1 to 5.30pm, at Second Home in Sakae.🗣E/J 20 tables, no experience needed. Just order a drink from the cafe while you play. ✉kaiju.convention@gmail.com🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

One last gift from those translations. Hiroshi Aramata rendered Cthulhu as Ku-Little-Little, and it stuck: it is still in the series titles. An unpronounceable horror, solved by Japanese phonetics into something almost affectionate. Japan speaks a Derlethian dialect, and is no poorer for it🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here is what outsiders miss. Japan met the Mythos through Derleth-inclusive translations, and two of them ran at once in the early eighties: Kokusho Kankokai's ten volumes from 1982, and Keisuke Otaki's thirteen from Seishinsha. Elder Gods and Great Old Ones are ordinary vocabulary here.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

But it may not have been invention. Harold Farnese showed him a letter in which Lovecraft supposedly described a race banished for black magic and scheming to return. Whether Lovecraft wrote it is still unresolved. Derleth may have believed he was being faithful.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Then the charge. Derleth set benevolent Elder Gods against evil Great Old Ones, sorted the deities by element, and gave the whole thing a moral architecture. Japanese readers put it bluntly: he turned cosmic indifference into Jehovah versus Lucifer.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Start with the debt. Derleth founded Arkham House in 1939 for one purpose: to keep Lovecraft in print. Without him there is a fair chance Lovecraft simply vanishes into the pulps. He also coined the phrase Cthulhu Mythos. The thing purists defend has his name on the box.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In English-language fandom, August Derleth is the man who ruined Lovecraft. In Japan he is a foundational author, translated in full and widely read. Both are true, and the gap between them is the most interesting thing about him. A thread🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You are welcome, and I am sorry, in equal measure. Before you scour: Tsuburaya runs an official YouTube channel with a good chunk of the back catalogue subtitled in English. Less scouring, more watching. And shallow knowledge is only deep knowledge that has not happened yet🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Godzilla got its Minus Color, so the precedent exists. And your instinct is sound: Ultra Q is the strange one, an anthology nearer The Twilight Zone than a hero show. It is where Ragon, the Deep One kaiju, first surfaced in 1966. Try Ultra Q Dark Fantasy next; Konaka wrote for it🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two coincidences to finish. Ultraman's home is the M78 nebula in Orion, where the Elder Gods dwell. It was meant to be M87; a typo made it M78. And an old Arkham Horror edition included a Giant of Light piece, unmistakable in silhouette🐙(Tomomi) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_...

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Chiaki J. Konaka - Wikipedia

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The roots go deeper than Konaka. Ragon in 1966, Dagon in 1980, Digon in 1997: a line of Deep One kaiju running through the franchise. Tiga's Zoiger takes its name from Loigor. Tokusatsu has been quietly reading Lovecraft for sixty years.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And he is not merely borrowing. Konaka adapted The Shadow Over Innsmouth for Japanese television, and his own Mythos fiction has reached English: a story of his appears in Kurodahan Press's Lairs of the Hidden Gods, an anthology of Japanese Mythos writing. You can actually read him.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Blame one man: Chiaki J. Konaka, who wrote those Ultraman episodes. You may know his other work: Serial Experiments Lain, Hellsing, Texhnolyze, Digimon Tamers. Wikipedia describes him, flatly, as a Cthulhu Mythos writer. He has been smuggling Lovecraft into Japanese television for thirty years.

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ultraman has fought Cthulhu Mythos gods, and it was entirely deliberate. The final boss of Ultraman Tiga (1996) is Gatanothoa, lifted from the Mythos. Ultraman Gaia has byakhee. Ultraman Nexus has one simply called Cthulhu. A thread🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One note I should have added: the review goes into campaign content in some detail. If you are planning to play Twin Suns Rising, you may want to save it for afterwards🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And his reach is wider than his fame. Critics trace visual and thematic borrowings from Mudmen into Princess Mononoke, and from Yokai Hunter into Neon Genesis Evangelion. You have almost certainly met Morohoshi's ideas already, wearing someone else's name🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A footnote I only just learned: Morohoshi didn't choose the title. "Yokai Hunter" was imposed by his editor, over his objections, because Hieda hunts nothing. He’s an archaeologist, ostracised for heresy, an investigator in the Sherlock Holmes mould. More appeaser of old spirits than killer🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A generous review of Twin Suns Rising from Reviews from R'lyeh. The part that pleased me most: he credits the book's authenticity and sense of place to it being co-written by people who actually live in Japan. That is the whole point, and someone noticed🐙(Tomomi)

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Call of Cthulhu is big in Japan . Bigger than Dungeons & Dragons and the Japanese devotees of Call of Cthulhu have their official campaign...

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Sinners director is rebooting The X-Files, and promising proper monster-of-the-week episodes. Good timing to notice how Lovecraftian the original was: Topps comics opening with the "correlated contents" quote, Mulder and Scully at Miskatonic University. Mythos in a trench coat🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I see you’re back with The X-Files. There's a rabbit hole here: the Topps comics open with Lovecraft's "correlated contents" quote, Mulder&Scully visit Miskatonic University in a 1995 annual, and S5 was co-written by Stephen King. The whole show breathes Mythos, if you tilt your head right🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The catch: no English edition of the Hieda stories, a real loss. His The Dark Myth reached Italian, though. Italy, quietly ahead again. Morohoshi is a cornerstone of Japanese horror. Seek him out if you read Japanese or Italian🐙(Tomomi) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daijiro...

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Daijiro Morohoshi - Wikipedia

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If the manga is out of reach: Hiruko the Goblin (1991), Shinya Tsukamoto's take on Yokai Hunter. A school, an old burial mound, things that should stay asleep. But also a boy's doomed first love, and somehow a summer film I go back to every year🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A confession: Hieda, the hero, was modelled on the singer Kenji Sawada, a 1970s glam icon I adore. So my way into Japanese cosmic horror was partly a pop-star crush. The most respectable reasons are not always why we love things, and that is completely fine🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The structure is pure Call of Cthulhu. A scholar arrives somewhere quiet, reads the local myth a little too closely, and realises the myth is still operating. Morohoshi built cosmic dread from real Japanese folklore and ancient history, long before "folk horror" was a marketing term🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Completing the set: Sutra of Pale Leaves author Damon Lang brings a special playtest of a brand-new scenario to KaijuCon 2. A story nobody has played yet, run by the person who wrote it. No Sutra knowledge needed, newcomers welcome. Oct 24, Nagoya🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It really is a cracker. And the format is the secret: silent, monochrome, everything suggested and nothing quite shown. Cosmic horror lives in what you cannot see, so a medium that cannot show you gets it exactly right. A blockbuster shows too much🐙(Tomomi)

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Sons of the Singularity (Jason and Jesse) @singularitysons.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For the curious: Makai Suikoden runs to twenty volumes, Japanese only, now collected as one enormous ebook. The Go Nagai covers belong to the original 1980s Kadokawa editions, secondhand these days. ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%...

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魔界水滸伝 - Wikipedia

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