Interview with Granblue Fantasy Composer Tsutomu Narita – 12/15/2020

For the release of Granblue Fantasy‘s 8th soundtrack “Awakening”, GBF composer Narita Tsutomu graciously answered our questions about his gaming habits, his musical influences, and some of the stories behind each track on the soundtrack.

Check out his tales of dragons, remixes, and old-school RPGs!

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KMR and FKHR answer questions from Twitter — Granblue_en interview with Kimura Yuito and Fukuhara Tetsuya 5/26/2020

As Granblue Fantasy‘s development team adjusted to the new rules of the Coronavirus pandemic, we reached out to Kimura Yuito, (“KMR”, producer of GBF) and Fukuhara Tetsuya (“FKHR”, director of GBF). Armed with questions from Twitter, we asked them about challenges the game is facing in the age of COVID, along with a few other burning questions.

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Famitsu 04/02/2020 interview: Fukuhara Tetsuya and Kimura Yuito

The latest issue of Famitsu has an extensive interview with Fukuhara Tetsuya (director, Granblue Fantasy) and Kimura Yuito (producer, Granblue Fantasy) in its 6th anniversary special. They talk about a range of topics from Granblue Versus‘ reception to future projects and what’s coming up in year 7. Let’s dig in!

Update 4/4/2020: Famitsu posted an extended version of this interview online – new additions are marked in this salmon color to make it easier to skim.

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Famitsu.com interview with Arc System Works – Feb 20, 2020 issue

Pieces of this interview were sprinkled in the Granblue Fantasy Versus interview in the Feb 20th issue of Famitsu, but the whole thing was posted on Famitsu.com – it’s a doozy!

The three people interviewed about the development process of GBVS are:

Anbe Hideyuki (Anbe) – development manager of GBVS

Sawada Hideaki (Sawada) – Art director of GBVS

Sekine Kazuto (Pachi) – Lead battle planner

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