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http://www3.nns.ne.jp/pri/tk-mto/kikiyamaHP.html
Click on "ゲーム紹介" in the left and then click on the Yume Nikki logo to see.
I'm not sure why people are so sceptical about this. Seems mainly to be because the remake isn't very good. But Kikiyama approved the manga and light novel which are both reinterpretations of YN. Seems like Kikiyama is like David Lynch in how he enjoy seeing others interpret his works than explaining his works himself.
Web domains aren't impossible to switch hands without anyone noticing, in fact the Yumenikki.net website (the one created when Kikiyama partnered for the release of the manga and OST album) has been defunct since 2021 and has been now bought by a casino company.
It's very easy to falsify the identity of a person with so little presence as Kikiyama (we don't know their gender or even if they aren't a single person), especially in such long time frame as 10 years since the last game update, in which in theory they resurfaced and very suspiciously to "approve" a low-quality remake and to churn out some new merch at Fangamer.
Toby Fox recently had an """interview""" with Kikiyama, and much like during the Dream Diary pre-release, it seems like people talk for Kikiyama rather than them using their own words to tell us everything about them and their work, something isn't the case for other independent Japanese creators of other cult-classics such as Pixel and ZUN.
https://chartcarr.neocities.org/secretbase_4
The only thing that could actually prove that the real Kikiyama collaborated for the remake is that the eponymous dream diary contains what appears to be concept art for the original game, and they do kinda look like the type of art an amateur artist would draw in the early 2000s (but then again, there are very talented people out there who can perfectly replicate even the most iconic artstyles like Pokémon's Ken Sugimori and the like, especially as some of these seem to have been specifically created for this game, so ymmv)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1648590093
Unfortunately I think Kikiyama is just naturally a reclusive person. So there's no definitive answer to whether they were involved with the remake and other media. I don't see a reason to doubt it though and in the case of the website I linked, it's a hosted website I think so unlikely to change hands unless the account owner gives somebody else the password. I have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ fansite I made in middle school that's still online to this day despite not knowing the account password anymore.
The most interesting part of the Toby Fox interview was that Kikiyama implied they have worked on other things post-YK. Which is annoying because I'd like to see more from the mind that made Yume Nikki. I wonder if anyone has made an attempt to link any pieces of media back to Kikiyama, since if they have made more stuff it's likely under a different name.
Oh and I think it's worth noting the Yume Nikki remake had Kadokawa Corp involved with it who are a major Japanese book publisher, if anyone is going to make sure everything is legal and above board, it's going to be a big company that could be sued if they done ♥♥♥♥ up.