Mazin-san's photo report on dismantlement of old SEGA HQ

News from 2019.05.07-
Archived on 2019.05.12

As the dismantlement of the old SEGA HQ is about to start, Mazin-san (Masato Nishimura-san) started taking photos of the iconic building every day.

Here is the summary.

May 7th

日替わり大鳥居前哨戦。いや、まだ変わってないけど。令和の第一発目という事で。いや、実は令和初日に車で前を通ったけど。
これから毎日家を焼こうぜ！
じゃなくて、これから毎日、出来る限りココ来るよ。 pic.twitter.com/PvIF8RGNZC

— まぢん (@Mazin__) May 7, 2019

"Pre-Daily Ohtorii. Nothing has changed yet though, but just as a first record in Reiwa. Well, actually I passed here in a car on the very first day of Reiwa, but anyway.
'Let's burn the house every day!'
Kidding, I'm going to come here every day as often as I can."
- Masato Nishimura (Mazin)

てことで、セガ旧本社が取り壊されるまで、毎日川崎の自宅から大鳥居まで夜のジョギングをする事にしました。
でもこの距離毎日は正直キツイw
若さに任せた明日なき暴走ってヤツですよ。もう若くはないけど。

— まぢん (@Mazin__) May 7, 2019

"So I decided to do some jogging from my home in Kawasaki to Ootorii every night until the old SEGA HQ will be dismantled.
But honestly, to jog this distance every day is very challenging.
Let's say it's a recklessness of being young. I'm not young anymore though."
- Masato Nishimura (Mazin)

Sonic in SEGA Europe's HQ!

News from 2019.05.02
Archived on 2019.05.02

SEGA Shop of Europe is showing off its HQ filled with SEGA-ness!

Isn’t the SEGA Europe headquarters just so beautiful? 😍 pic.twitter.com/i1ld4EUM0v

— SEGA Shop (@SegaShopEurope) May 2, 2019

I want to see that 3D emblem with my own eyes...it looks really cool!

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!

Old SEGA HQ in Ohtorii will be taken down from mid-May

News from 2019.04.24
Archived on 2019.04.26

Naka-san's sorrow over dismantlement of old SEGA HQ building, now decided to start after the long national holiday week of Japan.

セガの本社ビル解体工事がゴールデンウィーク明けの5月10日から始まるんですね。そのままどこかの会社さんが使ってくれると良いなあと思っていたのですが、完全に更地にして新たに何か建てるんですね。 https://t.co/unpOHBQDkI

— Yuji Naka / 中　裕司 (@nakayuji) April 24, 2019

🔵Naka-san:
"Dismantlement of SEGA's old HQ building is going to start on May 10th. I wished it would be used by other companies, but it seems like they are going to take it down completely to build something new."
RT⬇

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) April 24, 2019

Goodbye, SEGA HQ in Ohtorii. I wish I could have visited you at least once.

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!

SEGA of Japan's working conditions

News from 2019.03.01-04.03
Archived on 2019.04.22

Want to know what kind of working conditions SEGA of Japan has?
Here are some!

「ゲームクリエイターになるのが夢だった」「ずっとエンタメに関わる仕事がしたかった」

セガグループ2020新卒採用スタートしました。
私たちと一緒に感動体験を創造する仕事をしませんか？

あなたの夢とアイディア、ぜひセガグループで形にしましょう。
⇒https://t.co/q5xcw6oEMB #就活 #新卒採用 pic.twitter.com/zDe6vLu9Oa

— セガ公式アカウント (@SEGA_OFFICIAL) March 1, 2019

ここでセガグループ【働く環境】をみてみましょう

✅フレックスタイム制
✅副業OK
✅LGBT支援
✅在宅勤務テスト中
✅保育園併設
✅BAR併設
✅伊豆・軽井沢他に洒落た保養所
✅活発な技術知見交流
✅充実の研修制度
✅面接は髪型服装自由
✅去年の内定式はなんと謎解き

詳細→https://t.co/OV2VOBMc5O

— セガ公式アカウント (@SEGA_OFFICIAL) March 5, 2019

• Flex Time system
• Side business system
• LGBT support
• Home office on testing
• In-house childcare
• In-house bar
• Fashionable retreats in Izu, Karuizawa etc.
• Active exchange of knowledge and technique
• Various training courses
• No guidlines for hairstyle and clothing for job interviews [which is still uncommon in big companies in Japan]
• Last year's welcome party was a group quiz workshop

従業員の仕事と育児の両立支援を目的とした『セガサミー そらもり保育園』が４月、開園しました。

森をイメージした保育ルームには、長野県南相木村にあるセガの森（※「森林の里親契約」を締結し、環境保全活動を実施中）のカラマツ材を内装に使用しています。https://t.co/OV2VOBMc5O pic.twitter.com/lR7vuW8OSX

— セガ公式アカウント (@SEGA_OFFICIAL) April 4, 2019

"SEGA Sammy's Soramori Childcare  has opened in April to support SEGA employees on both their job and childrearing.
The caretaking room with forest as its motif uses the woods from SEGA Forest (under Contract of Forest' Foster Parent for protection of environment) in Nagano prefecture."

As they built their new HQ in Sinagawa, they seem to have lots of new stuff in it.
Do you want to work in SEGA of Japan now?
-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!

Mazin-san found sign for old SEGA HQ at Otorii station erased

News from 2019.03.25
Archived on 2019.04.17

Mazin-san found out that the sign for the old SEGA HQ at Otorii Station are now covered away.
The trace of SEGA is gradually but certainly fading from Otorii city...

お、お前、消えるのか・・・！？ pic.twitter.com/Auj21kZPsl

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 25, 2019

"A, are you going to disappear...?!"

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!

New SEGA HQ's entrance is full of spring emotion!

News from 2019.03.25
Archived on 2019.04.16

New SEGA HQ's entrance hall is full of spring emotion now!
Beautiful Ikebana (Japanese traditional flower art) of cherry blossom flowers will welcome new employees of SEGA soon.

Oh and look! That's Sonic! Can you figure out which game that scene is from?

今週からセガグループ受付も春爛漫🌸#セガ新オフィス pic.twitter.com/ekhIVAIR91

— セガ公式アカウント (@SEGA_OFFICIAL) March 25, 2019

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!

Mazin-san at old SEGA HQ once again - the logo is now all gone

News from 2019.03.24
Archived on 2019.04.15

Like Naka-san did few days ago, Mazin-san also re-re-visited the old SEGA HQ for the xth times - and tweeted his sadness over the main building without the SEGA logo.
The logo he stated several times before the takedown (here, or there) that would have taken with him if possible, is now comletely gone to nowhere.

セガロゴもなくなったので、もう何のビルか分からんなぁ。 pic.twitter.com/eRHiCBTWe2

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 24, 2019

Seeing the place he worked for decades to change to something totally foreign must feel weird.

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!

Naka-san visits old SEGA HQ again: all traces of SEGA are gone

News from 2019.03.21
Archived on 2019.03.24

Naka-san re-visited the old building of SEGA HQ again to discover that the SEGA logos are now completely gone.

He posted following tweets with pictures:

"I visited the Haginaka Park near SEGA Enterprises for my children's bike riding practice, and I took this opportunity to see the building again. All of the signboards and logos on the ground were removed. According to a guardman, due to confidentiality he can't tell me what the next company is going to be, but the construction starts next week. I wonder if it's going to be taken down. "

子供達の自転車の練習の為にセガエンタープライゼス近くにある萩中公園に来たついでに、見に寄ったら、地面のロゴも看板も全部外されてました。警備員さんによると守秘義務があるので次の会社は言えないんだけど、来週から工事が始まるようです。壊されるんですかね。 pic.twitter.com/0vo2QZE4lA

— Yuji Naka / 中　裕司 (@nakayuji) March 21, 2019

子供達の自転車の練習の為にセガエンタープライゼス近くにある萩中公園に来たついでに、見に寄ったら、地面のロゴも看板も全部外されてました。警備員さんによると守秘義務があるので次の会社は言えないんだけど、来週から工事が始まるようです。壊されるんですかね。 pic.twitter.com/3wLtvuPit8

— Yuji Naka / 中　裕司 (@nakayuji) March 21, 2019

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or a cup of tea!

Mazin-san's sorrow over removal of SEGA logo from old SEGA HQ

News from 2019.03.11
Archived on 2019.03.13

Yesterday, Mazin-san visited the old SEGA HQ in Ohtorii.
Today, he discovered that the SEGA logo on the 2nd building was removed at last.

昨日まであった大鳥居2号館のセガロゴが、ついに取り外されてしまったようだ・・・。

捨てるならください。

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 11, 2019

He says if the logo will be destroyed, he would have it instead...
Or will it be used somewhere else?

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! I'm not a fan of coffee, but a cup of hot tea would help me translate things faster.

Mazin-san re-visits the old SEGA HQ

News from 2019.03.10
Archived on 2019.03.12

As mentioned in my post from the day before, Mazin-san visited the old SEGA HQ in Ohtorii which is in the process of takedown. It's about one month since he and all colleagues of SEGA moved into the new building in Shinagawa.

ゆーめをー作るーとても不思議なゲーム会社ー
東へー西へー、たどり着いたぜ大鳥居〜

って、ぎぃやあああぁぁぁぁぁ

キレイな顔してるだろ・・・
さっきまで命だったものが辺り一面に転がる〜〜うぉーうぉーうぉー pic.twitter.com/PZdTd8ztU9

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 10, 2019

Mazin-san sings about a mysterious game company which makes dreams, which he finally finds in Ohtorii after a long journey...
And his screams.
"Looks beautiful, right? It had life a second before, and now it's all rolling down on the ground... wowowow---"

(I don't know which song he is using for the parody, but we can see his sorrow...)

旧本社（大鳥居本社2号館）の定礎
セガ・エンタープライゼスはサイコーだぜ。ハヤオーバンザイ！ pic.twitter.com/l5mwmHL9XK

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 10, 2019

"The cornerstone of the old HQ (2nd building).
SEGA Enterprises is amazing. Hooray Hayao!"

(Possibly Hayao Nakayama, former President and CEO of SEGA)

このまま大鳥居の旧本社はセガ博物館として再生しないかな。メガドラ版ボナンザのオリジナルステージみたいなw

で、1階ロビーには体感ゲームとか全部置いてあってさ。

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 10, 2019

He wishes that this old building would reused as SEGA museum which is like the original stage of Bonanza (Mega Drive ver.) and the 1st floor all set with interactive games.

I also wish that would be true.

セガの痕跡は1つ残らず拾っていくスタイル pic.twitter.com/FKlOchKjxV

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 10, 2019

"Picking up every single trace of SEGA."

🔵Mazin-san visited the old HQ of SEGA to take some last pictures of the building with SEGA logo on it.
⬇

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 10, 2019

That must have been a nostalgic and heartbreaking trip for Mazin-san.

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! Or tea!

Naka-san and Mazin-san on dismantlement of old SEGA HQ

News from 2019.03.10
Archived on 2019.03.12

It's been some time since the SEGA's headquarters moved to Shinagawa, Tokyo, and the takedown of old main building of SEGA was officially announced. Now it's really happening.
Naka-san and Mazin-san reacted to a SEGA fan's tweet on initiated dismantlement of SEGA's old  building in Ohtorii, Tokyo.

あーーーーーーー
セガエンタープライゼスが無くなり出してます。
やはり2019年2月末までだったようですね。
本当に残念ですね
数々の思い出が蘇ります。
とっても良い会社だったのに本当に残念です。
またハード出せる位まで復活させたかったですね。 https://t.co/qq1POZVWIP

— Yuji Naka / 中　裕司 (@nakayuji) March 9, 2019

🔵Naka-san: "Ahh…SEGA Enterprises is starting to disappear. So it was until the end of February. It is really is disappointing. So many memories. It was a great company so it really is unfortunate. If it could recover to the point where its own consoles can be developed again." https://t.co/D6oYEDSVKY

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 9, 2019

He used to almost live in that building for developing games day and night, and co-created one of the most iconic characters of the world. That place must hold so many memories for him even after he left SEGA years ago.


Another Sonic developer, Mazin-san (Masato Nishimura-san), who is still a SEGA employee and had moved to the new HQ now, has commented too.

あぁ、大鳥居の旧セガ本社がジワジワと封印されつつある。社屋の壁とかについてる立体セガロゴ、廃棄するならマジで譲って欲しい。超欲しい。くれるんなら俺の童貞捧げてもいい。

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 9, 2019

🔵Mazin-san: "Ah, the old SEGA HQ in Ohtorii is gradually being sealed away. If they are going to get rid of the 3D SEGA logos on the building's wall and such, I'd love to have them myself. I really do. " https://t.co/wiU9Xf6TgS

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 9, 2019

(In the last sentense in his original tweet, Mazin-san states with half-humorous/half-serious tone that he would give up his virginity in order to get them.)

明日大鳥居に撮影しに行こう。約1ヶ月ぶりの大鳥居。たった1ヶ月だけど、それまでは毎日通ってたギャップで懐かしい感じに映るんだろうな。

— まぢん (@Mazin__) March 9, 2019

Then he tweets that he will go to Ohtorii to take photos of the building tomorrow. "It's only been one month, but as I went there every day for work until then, it must look nostalgic to me."


The building is memorable for so many people, both for those who worked hard there and for fans who adore such hardworks.
The building itself is beautiful too, reflecting the blue sky of SEGA color all over. It's a shame that I didn't take my chance to visit there when I still could.
Goodbye, SEGA of Ohtorii.

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! A cup of tea would heal the wound of nostalgy.

Aaron Webber & co. visited new SEGA HQ in Tokyo!

News from 2019.03.08
Archived on 2019.03.09

Aaron and co. visited the brand new SEGA HQ in Tokyo!

We visited Tokyo with @egoraptor and @jkcompletesit! Here's a special look at the new SEGA of Japan HQ, Tokyo Game Show, and a surprise Big the Cat song with Jun Senoue! (@crush40) pic.twitter.com/qADSERY4iB

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) March 7, 2019

This trip was a ton of fun and I wish we could have also shown off all the amazing food! Thanks again @egoraptor and @JKCompletesIt for coming with! https://t.co/nxZ9ghWF0j

— Aaron Webber (@RubyEclipse) March 7, 2019

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! I'm not a fan of coffee, but a cup of hot tea would help me translate things faster.

A figure of the old SEGA HQ? Naka-san bursts out ideas

News from 2019.02.27
Archived on 2019.03.08

Continuing his thread on the old SEGA HQ, Yuji Naka-san commented as follows on a tweet saying that a figure for the SEGA Enterprises building might sell:

セガエンタープライゼス本社フィギュア良いですね 各フロアを開けて覗くと僕がソニック作っていたり、裕さんがOutRun作ってたりしているのが再現されているの欲しいです。あ、1階にR360やギャラクシーフォースとパワードリフト置いて欲しいですね。玄関のソニックもね。もはやデアゴスティーニですかね https://t.co/h8dFJFZNcJ

— Yuji Naka / 中　裕司 (@nakayuji) February 27, 2019

"SEGA Enterprises HQ figure, that sounds good. If it happens, I want it to have each floor with reimagination of me developing Sonic or Yu-san creating OutRun and so on. Oh, I want R360, Gallaxy Force and Power Drift in the first floor. They better recreate the Sonic in the entrance hall too. Now this sounds more like a DeAGOSTINI model."

Somebody should realize all these ideas!

-----------------------------
🍵Please support me through Ko-fi! I'm not a fan of coffee, but a cup of hot tea would help me translate things faster.