In our rundown of Japan’s blossoming love affair with Medieval and Revolutionary France, Metafuture regrets being remiss in not including what may be the seed: Arm Joe, the 2D fighter inspired by one Japanese man’s love of Les Misérables.

This man, known only as Takase, has been working on this PC game all by himself since the late 90s. We saw this get mentioned as recently as last month on GameSetWatch, but it completely slipped our minds.

To make up for it, here’s a link to download the game, if you haven’t yet seen Robo-Valjean avenge the mistreatment of his human peasant buddies. (The download will start automatically)

Metafuture infobit: It’s called Arm Joe because in Japan, Les Misérables is called Ah, Mujou (”Ah, Cruelty”).

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