奴凧 · Kikkei Labs / martinez.sh
Yakko Tako
An original tale, hand-printed in motion.
A cross-platform game from Kikkei Labs / martinez.sh — the story of the yakko, the tako and the great wave, drawn frame by frame in the spirit of Edo-period woodblock prints and set loose on an engine built just for it.
# original IP · hand-drawn ukiyo-e · coming soon
Drawn, not rendered
Every scene begins as an illustration in the tradition of ukiyo-e — the floating-world woodblock prints of Edo Japan. The great wave, the warriors, the daruma in the reeds, the octopus beneath the swell: hand-composed, then brought to life so they breathe and move rather than sit still on the page.
Choose your player
Yakko, Takako, Kamikaze and Bushi — a cast of original characters, each with a face pulled straight from the floating world.
An original world
No licence, no franchise, no reskin. Yakko Tako is original intellectual property rooted in real cultural research — its folklore, its characters and its play grow out of the same source the art does, not bolted on after the fact.
Climb for the summit
Pick a character and climb — higher is better, and the metres rack up fast. Collect daruma, spend them in the gift shop, and chase a new high score. It runs across phones in English, Japanese, Korean and more, with its low-poly floating world rendered on the in-house engine.
Built on its own engine
A cross-platform 3D engine written in-house, shaped around the look and feel of the game rather than the other way round.
Novel by design
New mechanics and original characters first — not another spin on a formula you have already played a hundred times.
Researched, not borrowed
Deep cultural and historical research feeds the world, its names and its motifs, down to the nuances most games skip.
Production quality
End-to-end craft with a high artistic bar, from the first brushstroke to the last frame on screen.
From the same sky: Yakko Tako Royale
The kites of Yakko Tako, taken into a fighting game. Every kite hangs from a single string, and so does every rival's. Cut theirs before they cut yours. Two to four players on one couch, or up to sixteen online through Steam, across four arenas and six formats. And you can try it right now, in your browser.
The wave is rising again.
上がれ、Yakko Tako. Rise up, and climb higher than the wave itself.