New Delhi, June 13 -- Eleven days before Kadokawa Corporation's shareholders gather to vote on the future of its leadership, Hidetaka Miyazaki decided to say something in public. The president and director of FromSoftware - the studio behind Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne - did not hold a press conference. He spoke to Den Faminico Gamer, a Japanese gaming outlet, in a message he was careful to frame as personal, not corporate.

and to the studio as a whole.

The timing was not accidental. On June 24, Kadokawa - which owns roughly 70 percent of FromSoftware - holds its annual general meeting of shareholders. At the center of that meeting is a challenge mounted by Oasis Management, a Hong Kong-based activist investment fund that has...