Earthbound and Mother 3 director Shigesato Itoi issued a formal appeal to the cartoonist, suggesting that Mother 3 books may be being adapted
The news originally appeared in a digitally published article in the Japanese game magazine "Famitsu". When roughly translated into English, the main point seems to be that Itoi's publishing company Hobonichi has announced plans to launch a book about mothers later this year. It also mentioned that the final product will be available in multiple languages. There is still no news about the Western Mother 3 port, but at least there may be Western Western 3 books.
Fans quickly responded to the cartoonist's appeal, although this seemed relatively ambiguous. Check out the following tweets.
Obviously, Shigamo's blog / magazine Hobonichi is searching for cartoonists who like Mother / EarthBound? They didn't say why. 🤔 Actually, they are especially saying "Don't ask why". pic.twitter.com/GZZstOzyPQ
— Sakaki @ Fight for Nof. Inc to fight for the freedom of my girlfriend. (@Kiirobon) January 30, 2020
Clearly telling people "don't ask why" seems to be a strange move, probably because it is a move. In any case, Earthbound and Mother fans seem excited about the news and hope that Hobonichi will publish a new Mother book by the end of 2020. The news has also established a website that seems to imply that the initiative is simply referred to as the "Mother Project".
Other fans personally translated these tweets and came up with the idea that Ito is planning to adapt all "Mother" games into books that are globally accessible. Check out the following tweets.
"Today, we still remember my mother ’s writings.
All mother's writings are written as a book.
3 MOTHER books, each game is complete.
It will be released at the end of this year. Please wait a moment …
Before that, we hope that mother fans will love this news. ”Https://t.co/xZjmL9ZZ0N-Cody "NOKOLO" (@nokoloc) April 30, 2020
The tweet wrote: “Today, we still remember the mother ’s writings.” “All of the mother ’s writings have been made into one book. The three books written by the mother are all complete. It will be on sale at the end of this year. Please wait a moment Wait a moment … Until then, we hope that mom ’s fans will love the news. "
The video corresponding to Itoi ’s announcement was also posted on YouTube. The text is written in Japanese, but even if you cannot read the text simply because of the beauty of the music, it is still worth a try.
Aggregating all available information means that mother books based on mother games may be available by the end of 2020.
For fans who want to know whether this will affect Mother's future, Itoi unfortunately said that the sequel to Mother 3 is impossible. In addition, even when he took office at Residence Cornel University, Reggie Fils-Aimé seemed unable to escape Mother No. 3. Who knows how many times he has been asked about mother number 4.
