Translation:“Yuuyake (red-sunset-sky) Koyake (after-sunset-orange-sky)” = “Sunset Glow”; additionally this is the title of a popular nursery rhyme composed by Shin Kusakawa (1893-1948).
At 5pm or 6 pm in many places you could hear a 30 seconds catchy melody. You can usually listen it near schools, city halls and official buildings; they use pretty powerful speakers, if you are walking around Tokyo at 5pm is very probable that you will listen it. The song is used as a signal, it means that Japanese children finish school and can go home.
It has not really the same vibe like MLP,
it has far more in common with the studio Ghibli movies like “My Neighbour Totoro”. “A Letter To Momo” would also be a powerful example - I would rather recommend the latter one for watching, since the first one is really targeted at children and this is also a very beautiful example, what this is all about.
The setting is (any) peaceful rural Japanese village (preferable in the late 80s). The players are local animal-shapechanger-spirits, who take care of the community. Maybe there are some old people who still aware of this, but still even for them, the henge-yokai are only stories their grandparents told them. So the players help the community from “out of the shadows”, if you so will. You can reveal yourself, but this generally causes people to freak out (ever encountered a speaking fox?), and scaring people is the last thing you wanna do.
(So you can do that, but you have to be very tactful )
makes it sound like an inversion of Vampire the Masquerade’s core concept (instead of preying upon them from the shadows, you try to do good from there)
Any chance this might gonna be more than just a one-shot?
I think it might be worth reading up a bit on the “mythical styles” associated with the various animal spirits (the movies might have a lot to offer on that too), and for getting into the characters and the setting and all… maybe a couple sessions would be nice, thinking like 3 or so?
Heya. I am def intriqued on joining aswell. I grew up with JRPGs along with it’s vibe. Alongside me being inside that japanese cultural export sphere with anime, high effort cosplaying and whatnot ^^