Segare Ijiri – Cane and Rinse No.654

The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

Cane and Rinse

Leisure, Video Games, Games, Hobbies

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Presented explicitly as the world's first "stupid game" or "baka game", Segare Ijiri is a pretty well known cultural touchstone in Japan, but virtually unknown outside of it, even among fans of Japanese gaming obscura. Michiel, Brian, Leah and Sean attempt to cross language and cultural barriers to delve into this strange piece of software... and surprisingly discover meaning in what was purposefully created as something meaningless.

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0:00.0	I'm Greetings, one and all, and welcome to the Caner Rins podcast, Volume 14, issue 654.
0:42.8	And today we are discussing the Japan-only PlayStation 1 game Segere Ichri.
0:48.5	Joining me and Michil Kroeder in this issue are Leah Hey-Doo.
0:52.7	I don't even have something clever to say.
0:58.2	I'm going to have a lot of clever things in recording the podcast, I promise.
1:02.5	My arrowhead is pointing north, south.
1:03.1	I don't know.
1:04.3	Whichever the good one is.
1:06.4	Yeah.
1:07.7	Brian Edwards.
1:09.4	Hi, I'm Hill.
1:13.3	I am coming to you atop of a flying penguin, and boy, am I confused.
1:15.5	And Sean Fletcher.
1:18.0	Good morning, recording live from Mama's House.
1:18.3	Hello.
1:19.9	Hi.
1:24.9	So, yeah, Secretary Itchry, what is it?
1:29.8	It's not so easy to describe, but I would say that it's a surreal,
1:35.6	non-sequitter puzzle between quotation marks adventure game in which you guide an arrowhead boy, birthed and directed by a giraffe head, through a dollhouse like environment and trigger
1:41.7	events and make progress by matching Japanese words
1:44.1	and phrases together.
1:46.1	The title roughly translates to making my son bigger by playing with him or just playing
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