Konami Announces Magical Investigator Horror RPG At Tokyo Game Show 2026
Konami is rolling out Magical Investigator as a cross-media project before the game itself has a release date or platform, with a novel already available and a comic and board game already dated.
Key Facts
- Konami Digital Entertainment announced the horror suspense limited RPG Magical Investigator at Tokyo Game Show 2026 on September 17, 2026.
- Magical Investigator is produced by Shinagawa Sohei under the pen name KITAYAMA Roman, former president of Nippon Ichi Software and head of Super Nichi.
- Illustrator ENAMI Katsumi, known for Restaurant to Another World and Baccano!, designed the characters revealed at the announcement event.
- A comic version of Magical Investigator is scheduled for distribution in mid-November 2026, and a board game version is planned for release within 2027.
- The release timing and platform for the Magical Investigator game are undecided.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer.
Konami Digital Entertainment announced a new title called Magical Investigator at the KONAMI booth during Tokyo Game Show 2026 on September 17, 2026. The game asks what modern society would look like if magic existed. In its story, police investigators pair with magic users to solve violent magical crimes, a buddy format where magic users are feared and treated as dangerous weapons. The project comes from KITAYAMA Roman, the pen name of Shinagawa Sohei, former president of Nippon Ichi Software and current head of Super Nichi, who produces the game. Illustrator ENAMI Katsumi, known for Restaurant to Another World and Baccano!, designed characters revealed at the event, among them investigator KAZAMA Shun, his magic user partner Arpeggio, worldwide wanted magical criminal KABURAGI Yamato, and the Metropolitan Police Department magic users Mister and Rolling Thunder. Konami calls the genre a horror suspense limited RPG. Release timing and platform are undecided. A novel version is out on Kimaira Bunko, a comic version is scheduled for mid-November 2026, and a board game version is planned for release within 2027.
- Shinagawa Sohei produces the game under the pen name KITAYAMA Roman. He is the former president of Nippon Ichi Software and current representative of Super Nichi.
- Illustrator ENAMI Katsumi designed the characters. Past work includes Restaurant to Another World and Baccano!
- The character lineup revealed at the event: investigator KAZAMA Shun, his magic user partner Arpeggio, worldwide wanted magical criminal KABURAGI Yamato, and the Metropolitan Police Department magic users Mister and Rolling Thunder.
- The genre is a horror suspense limited RPG. Shinagawa said a limited RPG gives "an RPG experience that breaks common sense in ways impossible in ordinary RPGs," and described how it differs from conventional RPGs.
- Examples of events that occur inside the game were shown at the event.
- Release timing and platform are undecided. A novel version is out on Kimaira Bunko, a comic version is scheduled for mid-November 2026, and a board game version is planned within 2027.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.