What's a Takoyaki?

Here’s one more example. In the voice sample we used for Aero’s actress audition, the term “takoyaki” came up. For the unfamiliar, takoyaki is a Japanese food, where they stick pieces of octopus inside balls of batter.

In Japan, there’s likely not a single person who doesn’t know what takoyaki is, but overseas, most people haven’t even heard of it. In some countries, they don’t even eat octopus. On a side note, this “takoyaki” reference in the game actual holds great significance, but details regarding that are top secret for the time being. But since it’s so significant, we have to be sure that all audiences understand the reference. So what we did was change the takoyaki reference to a “gyro” reference. Similarly to takoyaki, gyros are a sort of casual food that most people overseas are at least somewhat familiar with, even though the Japanese are mostly unfamiliar. (For those unfamiliar, a gyro [sounds like “YEE-ro”] is a folded pita wrap made with sliced meat).