14th Entertainment Division Jury Selections
Sengoku Basara : Samurai Heroes
Video game
KOBAYASHI Hiroyuki
Outline
An action game creating a unique and innovative worldview centered on historical events, featuring warlords from the Period of Warring States as characters. As is well known, the hit made by this series has received a boost from the booming interest in the Period of Warring States in recent years, with the series having an impact on the wider sphere outside the gaming world, including the adoption of one of the characters, DATE Masamune, for the Miyagi prefectural governor electoral campaign in October 2009, making a contribution to the revitalization of the region.