GTV Japan | Cosmic Fantasy: The Complete PC Engine & TurboGrafx-16 Role Playing Game Series Retrospective @GTV-Japan | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Cosmic Fantasy was a groundbreaking series that brought RPGs and anime closer together than ever before. (Chapter markers and more below...)
Episode Information
GTV 125 “Cosmic Fantasy Story" Season 7 Episode 3
Original Airdate: April 28, 2022
Produced at various times between 2017-2022. Final version edited April 18-26, 2022
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my all new 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, which my job paid for!
0:00 Rei Cares!
0:09 GTV ID: Our videos go to 11!!
0:17 Introduction
0:46 Act 1: The World That Lead to Cosmic Fantasy
5:05 Act 2: The Adventures of Yuu
9:24 Act 3: The Adventures of Van
15:04 Act 4: The Adventures of Rei
19:36 Act 5: Prelude to a Legendary Fierce Battle
23:35 Act 6: The Cosmic Fantasy Universe
27:46 Act 7: Nyan’s Bag of Tricks
34:32 Act 8: Who are the Voice Actors?
37:56 Act 9: Life After Cosmic Fantasy
Other GTV episodes about TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine!
The Zonk Song youtu.be/uwKCKQWl1uQ
The More You Know: TurboDuo youtu.be/eCsIJqQP8NY
Who Are Kato & Ken? youtu.be/CtKuKTSjF_g
What REALLY Happened to Yuko After Valis III youtu.be/GgNLDalIBT4
Pac-Land Fever youtu.be/QDO9ynkxa7k
Twinbee! Be There With Bells On youtu.be/Dh-ISK4mngU
Bonk's Nomenclature youtu.be/U-m5MPGTMpA
TurboGrafx-16 Arcade Developer Interview youtu.be/0SAUfI5BBMA
At The End of the Rainbow youtu.be/g9j-EGPilRo
Time to take a trip back and remember a highly influential Role Playing Game series. Cosmic Fantasy!! Though it is often forgotten along side the long list of other great RPGs out there, Cosmic Fantasy holds a special place in the hearts of many who played it in the early 1990s. The style of game that the series established lives on today, making it an important piece of Gaming History™ that deserves not to be ignored.
Cosmic Fantasy is set in the far off future, almost a century after the most advanced planets of galaxy united in peace to form The Galactic Federation. The peace is maintained by an elite force: the Cosmic Security Company. Agents of the CSC are known as Cosmic Hunters. Their mission is to protect planets who have yet to develop modern technology from space pirates, and other evil forces.
The Star of Cosmic Fantasy is Yuu. Orphaned at a young age, Yuu was taken in by the Director of the CSC and at age 14 is already conducting independent missions. His tanooki-like motorcycle, Monmo and his spaceship A.I. module, Mother, give Yuu the sense of family missing from his life. On a routine flyby, Yuu detects a distress signal emanating from the Planet Norg. Though visiting Norg was not on his agenda, Yuu crash lands on the planet and begins an investigation.
Cosmic Fantasy 2 takes place on planet Idea. There, a young boy named Van lives a simple life in a farming village on Clan Island. One day, Van learns of a plot by an evil wizard named Galum, to kidnap the princess of planet Idea. The identity of the princess kept hidden, for her own safety and can only be realized through a pendant that she wears. It turns out that Van’s childhood sweetheart Lara is actually the princess, and does become kidnapped. Furthermore, The princess has the power to grant immortality to the man she marries, which if Lara were forced to marry Galum would make him unstoppable.
The presence the Cosmic Fantasy series had so far in Japan, grabbed the attention of a small American game publisher, Working Designs. The company operated with the sole mission of localizing the best games left behind in Japan by bigger publishers. Cosmic Fantasy 2 would become the biggest project up to that point that Working Designs had ever taken.
In Cosmic Fantasy 3, a space pirate named Gardo uses a time machine to go back in time, 25 years to stop the creation of the CSC from ever happening, thus allowing the space pirates to plunder uninhibited in the future. Yuu learns of the plot and also goes back in time to prevent history from being altered. In the past Nyan meets Rei, the main character of the game. Nyan explains to Rei that he’s searching for a rare gem, the Sebul-rakis Stone. It just so happens that a family of shady looking cats seeks the stone as well.
To this day the Working Designs version of Cosmic Fantasy 3 has never been seen in public and no information exists on its whereabouts. All we can do is look up at the stars and dream of what might have been.
In 1994 the Cosmic Fantasy Series continued on following Yuu’s return to the present. In order to fit every idea into the next game, it was split into two discs. Unlike games of a larger scale these days, the two discs were sold separately, released a few months apart that year.
Cosmic Fantasy was a groundbreaking series that brought RPGs and anime closer together than ever before. (Chapter markers and more below...)
Episode Information
GTV 125 “Cosmic Fantasy Story" Season 7 Episode 3
Original Airdate: April 28, 2022
Produced at various times between 2017-2022. Final version edited April 18-26, 2022
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my all new 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, which my job paid for!
0:00 Rei Cares!
0:09 GTV ID: Our videos go to 11!!
0:17 Introduction
0:46 Act 1: The World That Lead to Cosmic Fantasy
5:05 Act 2: The Adventures of Yuu
9:24 Act 3: The Adventures of Van
15:04 Act 4: The Adventures of Rei
19:36 Act 5: Prelude to a Legendary Fierce Battle
23:35 Act 6: The Cosmic Fantasy Universe
27:46 Act 7: Nyan’s Bag of Tricks
34:32 Act 8: Who are the Voice Actors?
37:56 Act 9: Life After Cosmic Fantasy
Other GTV episodes about TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine!
The Zonk Song youtu.be/uwKCKQWl1uQ
The More You Know: TurboDuo youtu.be/eCsIJqQP8NY
Who Are Kato & Ken? youtu.be/CtKuKTSjF_g
What REALLY Happened to Yuko After Valis III youtu.be/GgNLDalIBT4
Pac-Land Fever youtu.be/QDO9ynkxa7k
Twinbee! Be There With Bells On youtu.be/Dh-ISK4mngU
Bonk's Nomenclature youtu.be/U-m5MPGTMpA
TurboGrafx-16 Arcade Developer Interview youtu.be/0SAUfI5BBMA
At The End of the Rainbow youtu.be/g9j-EGPilRo
Time to take a trip back and remember a highly influential Role Playing Game series. Cosmic Fantasy!! Though it is often forgotten along side the long list of other great RPGs out there, Cosmic Fantasy holds a special place in the hearts of many who played it in the early 1990s. The style of game that the series established lives on today, making it an important piece of Gaming History™ that deserves not to be ignored.
Cosmic Fantasy is set in the far off future, almost a century after the most advanced planets of galaxy united in peace to form The Galactic Federation. The peace is maintained by an elite force: the Cosmic Security Company. Agents of the CSC are known as Cosmic Hunters. Their mission is to protect planets who have yet to develop modern technology from space pirates, and other evil forces.
The Star of Cosmic Fantasy is Yuu. Orphaned at a young age, Yuu was taken in by the Director of the CSC and at age 14 is already conducting independent missions. His tanooki-like motorcycle, Monmo and his spaceship A.I. module, Mother, give Yuu the sense of family missing from his life. On a routine flyby, Yuu detects a distress signal emanating from the Planet Norg. Though visiting Norg was not on his agenda, Yuu crash lands on the planet and begins an investigation.
Cosmic Fantasy 2 takes place on planet Idea. There, a young boy named Van lives a simple life in a farming village on Clan Island. One day, Van learns of a plot by an evil wizard named Galum, to kidnap the princess of planet Idea. The identity of the princess kept hidden, for her own safety and can only be realized through a pendant that she wears. It turns out that Van’s childhood sweetheart Lara is actually the princess, and does become kidnapped. Furthermore, The princess has the power to grant immortality to the man she marries, which if Lara were forced to marry Galum would make him unstoppable.
The presence the Cosmic Fantasy series had so far in Japan, grabbed the attention of a small American game publisher, Working Designs. The company operated with the sole mission of localizing the best games left behind in Japan by bigger publishers. Cosmic Fantasy 2 would become the biggest project up to that point that Working Designs had ever taken.
In Cosmic Fantasy 3, a space pirate named Gardo uses a time machine to go back in time, 25 years to stop the creation of the CSC from ever happening, thus allowing the space pirates to plunder uninhibited in the future. Yuu learns of the plot and also goes back in time to prevent history from being altered. In the past Nyan meets Rei, the main character of the game. Nyan explains to Rei that he’s searching for a rare gem, the Sebul-rakis Stone. It just so happens that a family of shady looking cats seeks the stone as well.
To this day the Working Designs version of Cosmic Fantasy 3 has never been seen in public and no information exists on its whereabouts. All we can do is look up at the stars and dream of what might have been.
In 1994 the Cosmic Fantasy Series continued on following Yuu’s return to the present. In order to fit every idea into the next game, it was split into two discs. Unlike games of a larger scale these days, the two discs were sold separately, released a few months apart that year.
