Popful Mail - A Single Story Worth a Whole Franchise

This game is incredible and though it mainly consists of retellings of the same story, there’s so much to talk about… as you can see by the video length.

My Popful Mail PC Engine CD playthrough Translation Project is here:
   • Popful Mail English PCEngine CD Translatio...  
All "whisper" dialogue has been translated and compiled here:
   • Popful Mail つぶやき (Whisper/Chatter) All Dia...  

Thanks to Ellasent for working on this massive project with me!    / @ellasent  

I also uploaded the PC-88 and PC Engine CD manuals on internet archive as I couldn’t find them anywhere else:
PC-88: https://archive.org/details/2_2025042...
PC Engine CD: https://archive.org/details/d_2025042...

Popful Mail Gameplay Footage Credits:
PC88 - Highretrogamelord
Mega CD - Korobeiniki
Super Famicom - grisha92
Sega CD - Nintendo Complete

Popful Mail PCEngine CD Warning Track Translation:    • PC-Engine Warnings: Popful Mail  

Popful Mail SNES and other promotional comic translations by me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Falcom/comme...

Inubass’ indie games on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/publis...

IRL footage sources.
Bamboo footage:    • 4K - One Hour Walk in a Japanese Forest Pa...  
Cherry Blossom footage:    • Cherry blossom in the wind 💨🌸🌸🌸  
Japan footage of tall grass:    • Japanese Riverbank shot on Galaxy S8+ 4K 3...  

Time Extension Article can be found here:
https://www.timeextension.com/feature...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:20 Development
02:15 PC-88
09:22 PC-98
12:58 Mega CD
19:51 Super Famicom
26:42 PC Engine CD
34:11 Mega CD VS PC Engine CD
39:54 Sega CD (Localization)
49:51 Other Media
52:54 Translation mock-up PC Engine Announcement!
54:12 Outro