The Tenth Mosaic Game Culture Festival Sets September Dates
The event pairs French pioneers of the medium with Japanese creators across horror, action, and RPG lineages, and the Persona roundtable marks the series' 30th anniversary with the three core figures who shaped Persona 3 through 5.
Key Facts
- The Tenth Mosaic will be held on September 22 and 23, 2026, at the Institut francais du Japon in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.
- Festival admission tickets cost 2,000 yen and talk session tickets cost 3,000 yen, with each talk session capped at 100 people.
- The Persona 30th anniversary roundtable on September 23 features director Katsura Hashino, art director Shigenori Soejima, and composer Shoji Meguro.
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi will give a lecture marking the 25th anniversary of Rez on September 22.
- The Indie Legacy Showcase curated by Shuhei Yoshida includes more than 15 titles, such as Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin and Exit 8.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Denfaminicogamer.
The Institut francais du Japon will host The Tenth Mosaic, a two-day game culture festival, on September 22 and 23, 2026, at the Tokyo France Institute in Shinjuku Ward. The event, planned by Archipel, is themed around games as the 'tenth art' in the West and includes creator talks, exhibitions, music performances, workshops, and live drawing. French developers Frederic Raynal of Alone in the Dark and Eric Chahi of Another World are invited guests. Raynal joins a horror roundtable with Keiichiro Toyama, Makoto Shibata, and Hifumi Kono, creators of Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, and Clock Tower. Chahi will converse with Fumito Ueda of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. The schedule also includes a lecture by Tetsuya Mizuguchi on the 25th anniversary of Rez, a talk between Yoko Taro and Keisuke Okabe, and a Persona 30th anniversary roundtable with Katsura Hashino, Shigenori Soejima, and Shoji Meguro. Shuhei Yoshida curates an Indie Legacy Showcase with over 15 titles, and illustrator Katsuya Terada will draw live across both days. Festival admission is 2,000 yen; talk session tickets are 3,000 yen.
- September 22 opens with Yoko Taro and Keisuke Okabe at 11:00, discussing how they build "ephemeral yet emotionally stirring worlds."
- The horror roundtable runs 14:00 to 15:30 and covers the origins of horror expression in games and how the genre evolved.
- Mizuguchi's Rez lecture at 17:00 covers its design philosophy, development stories, and its continuing influence on interactive media.
- September 23 starts at 10:30 with the Persona roundtable, where director Hashino, art director Soejima, and composer Meguro discuss the series' creative process and 30-year history.
- Chahi and Ueda talk at 14:00, with the program noting Chahi's work from The Outer Worlds to gen ATLAS.
- A new talk at 17:00 pairs Kazutaka Kodaka and Masafumi Takada of Danganronpa and HUNDRED LINE -Final Defense Academy- on world-building and the synergy between storytelling and music.
- Exhibitions include original art and production sketches by Mathieu Bablet for Cairn, a hardware collection spanning microcomputers to handheld consoles, and a 30th anniversary Enemy Zero display with design materials.
- Music performances feature Yuzo Koshiro's famous tunes, Panzer Dragoon music by Saori Kobayashi, a KO-Ney set, and homage performances to Enemy Zero and Rez.
- The Indie Legacy Showcase lists LA-MULANA, Cave Story, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, ENDER LILIES, Exit 8, Öoo, and Darekare among its 15-plus titles.
- Each talk session is capped at 100 people, and a talk ticket does not grant venue entry; a separate 2,000 yen admission ticket is required. Autograph sessions follow some sessions.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.