1st Year Keio Graduate School PhD Student, Kenji Itoso, Directs Video for Guinness World Record Setting Shenmue 3.

1^st year Keio Graduate School PhD student, Kenji Itoso, recently played a part in the crowdfunded video game Shenmue 3, working as video director. Shenmue 3 set the Guinness World Record for the fastest crowdfunded video game to be successfully funded.

The campaign period to make contributions for the game’s development lasted from June 16^th, 2015 to July 17^th on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The project received pledges from 69,320 supporters across the globe, collecting in total $6,333,295 (~7.8 billion yen).

The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter page can be viewed at:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/description