diff --git a/games-arcade/taisei/Manifest b/games-arcade/taisei/Manifest
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+DIST taisei-v1.3.tar.xz 104340220 BLAKE2B 363124855e9f429708209135c3b3cfef31a66b6b3d898f8411d9da781facc4a1f8a0b29d7fdee586b269b004c95570c35e98837b75de17e8fe108ee825501c99 SHA512 1387d7936bcd1e7d827be94698cb649d91e7c06ba642b3c897e3c3548f58a4933667cb8ced380eb4df9d2127b5a1a101a9f8ddd1301935ae14a5dbbebf4f2bde
diff --git a/games-arcade/taisei/metadata.xml b/games-arcade/taisei/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>contact@hacktivis.me</email>
+		<name>Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/taisei-project/taisei/issues</bugs-to>
+		<changelog>https://taisei-project.org/news.atom</changelog>
+		<remote-id type="github">taisei-project/taisei</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		Taisei is an open clone of the Touhou Project series. Touhou is a one-man project of shoot-em-up games set in an isolated world full of Japanese folklore.
+	</longdescription>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="zip">Enable loading of game data from ZIP packages via <pkg>dev-libs/libzip</pkg></flag>
+	</use>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/games-arcade/taisei/taisei-1.3.ebuild b/games-arcade/taisei/taisei-1.3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2019 Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="Clone of the Touhou series, written in C using SDL/OpenGL/OpenAL."
+HOMEPAGE="http://taisei-project.org/"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/taisei-project/taisei/releases/download/v${PV}/${PN}-v${PV}.tar.xz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="zip"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-v${PV}"
+
+DEPEND="
+	media-libs/freetype:2
+	>=media-libs/libpng-1.5
+	media-libs/libsdl2
+	media-libs/sdl2-mixer
+	media-libs/libwebp
+	sys-libs/zlib
+	zip? ( dev-libs/libzip )
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	sed -i '/strip=true/d' meson.build || die "Failed removing auto-stripping"
+	sed -i "s/doc_path = join.*/doc_path = join_paths(datadir, \'doc\', \'taisei-${PV}\')/" \
+		meson.build || die "Failed changing doc_path"
+	default
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		$(meson_use zip enable_zip)
+	)
+	meson_src_configure
+}