Sai No Ohanashi (Tale of Sái) is the title of a small yet cheerful booklet contained in the rare preview edition of the 1998 Shift game XI - Devil Dice in the west. Part of the Game Yaroze project - not to be mistaken for Net Yaroze -, it was one of the most successful SCE puzzle games of the time, deserving of two sequels and multiple ports to different Playstation systems over the years. The characters also went on to become one of the most recognizable mascots of the Sony game universe alongside Toro Inoue or Boku from the 'My Summer Holiday' series, still used by many players as their PSN avatar.
These illustrations were created by children’s book author Dan Yaccarino, while the text was authored by Keiko Hidaka. I had posted this years ago on Eastern Mind but thought it was about time to make cleaner scans and replace the Japanese text with English instead.
sometimes i get a lil mad at myself for not buying an IQue Player or N64 DD, or Net Yaroze PS1 back when they were all under £100 but.. also if i had bought them they'd just been sitting on my shelf doing nothing for the past 15 years so.. yknow maybe it wasnt a bad thing
If you were a bottle what kind of bottle would it be? Perfume? Wine? Medicine? How about a label? If said bottle had a warning label what would it say?
A medicine bottle, probably. I hang onto all my pill bottles when I finish a prescription in a "maybe I'll use this" way and usually I don't use them, but sometimes I do. I tend to use them for stuff in my toiletry bag, so like bobby pins and cotton swabs and stuff. I like having a cutesy medical aesthetic, I used to decorate my pill bottles and inhalers for a few years there, and a lot of my aesthetic pins on Pinterest are pills, pill bottles, syringes, etc., so the medicine bottle makes sense in that way, too.
Maybe a pink bottle, if possible, like this novelty packaging from an online lash shop:
I've seen someone on Pinterest get upset about how this packaging is "offensive" simply because it references pills, as if I don't unironically keep my own lashes in an empty antidepressant bottle lmao. Pink would make it match a bag my friend gave me for Christmas; I'm not at my house so I can't show pictures, but it's an ita bag meant to be a pill bottle case shaped like a PS1, and it's pink and purple details on black, so it's giving vibes of the Net Yaroze (that sleek, black PS1 where you could make your own games and submit demos for said games to PlayStation Magazine), and so far I've put a non-binary cat enamel pin, a She-Ra enamel pin, an Adora pinback button, and a Catra pinback button in the window part.
Perhaps the bottle contains capsules filled with glitter or cake sprinkles
Warning label? I'm tired a lot so maybe
Not even tired a lot from my meds, my immune system just doesn't know how to behave lol. I get this warning label on my meds sometimes, but when my body is adjusted to my current dose of Seroquel then I'm fine, and I don't feel sleepy from pain meds, although Robax can make me a lil dizzy at times. The only other warning label I think I tend to get is the "do not crush or chew" one on my Wellbutrin XL, but I'd hope nobody crushes or chews me :/