How Being an Outsider Fueled Stranger Than Heaven's Director and Actor to Craft Its Story

RGG Studio's Stranger Than Heaven director Mikinobu Abe and lead actor Yu Shirota both drew on their own outsider backgrounds to shape protagonist Makoto Daito. Abe lived abroad and had to relearn Japanese, while Shirota is of mixed Spanish and Japanese heritage, and both tied that experience to the idea that music can break barriers. Music thus became central to the game's story, characters, and the Showbiz management side activity.