Takumi Corporation & Battle Unit II - X68000

[oli_lar]

Hi, quick question. I've been playing Battle Unit II on the X68000. It is made by 'Takumi' and I was wondering - is this same as the Gigawing developer? I notice on the Takumi corp wikipedia page it says it was founded in 1973, however below that it says it was formed after Toaplan's break up. Where they just a doujin circle previously to 1994? Battle Unit 1 (x68k) feels very amateurish, the second one isn't too much better imo.

This is the Takumi logo they use in Battle Unit II - very similar style wise, though the Japanese writing looks different. I can't read it though so don't know if/what the difference is.



Are Takumi making mobile phone related graphics stuff today as part of another company? Seems so from googling.

[Skyline]

Before their site went dead, they were developing Wii/DS titles for Hudson Soft.

What DID happen to them anyways?

[oli_lar]

http://www.gshark.com/en/about_us/index.html

Company is called still called takumi corp, so I assume they have either diversified and/or merged.

[Magic Knight]

Takumi is just a normal word, which means 'skill' etc. I imagine lots of companies are called Takumi. The character that makes up the logo is the word Takumi itself (or part of it:Taku) so I'm guessing that the company that made the X68000 game wasn't very big, and has nothing to do with the other companies you've mentioned.

[oli_lar]

Thanks for the insight. If it is coincidence its still a little strange that the above Takumi logo shares the same colour scheme and very similar English font as the actual Gigawing Takumi Corporation logo.