GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyuさんのイラストまとめ

as for Haggar, apparently Akiman was going through a Les Miserables phase at the time(?!) & was inspired by Jean Valjean's mayor turn (looking it up, Toho produced the first JP stage productions in '87)

the other inspiration was more obvious: John "Sleepy" Estes from Mad Bull 34

feeling nostalgic atm so have a few more covers from this bad, bad magazine

y'know if Arika riffed on the old EX ad by selling skullo variants (or naked-with-Modesty-Fog variants) of every character they'd never have to worry about money ever again

LRT: Taisuke Kanasaki, the director, artist & character designer for Hotel Dusk, Another Code/Trace Memory & many other games dating back to the Tecnosoft days, is on Patreon! https://t.co/HlLUwfuRJx

here's a sample of his work (Rynex!)

from Issue #7 of Sega's old home-spun zine, Sega Players Enjoy Club: a preview & "interview" with Sonic the Hedgehog. Ｅｘｐｅｃｔ ｍｕｃｈ ｏｆ ｎｅｘｔ！

icymi, legendary designer @NaotoOhshima has been posting lots of art & sketches from early in his career, including Sonic, NiGHTS & Blinx

profiles & art for Wild Guns Reloaded's new characters, Doris & Bullet (SHATTERHOUND!) https://t.co/djM0ttnE3b (JP)

also, Namco Catalog IP has added RPG Maker XV as a supported dev platform & has provided official MV chara assets

early designs for Kirby Planet Robobot's "Susie" (Akihiro Kanno, Shinya Kumazaki, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Etsuko Sako)

20+ pieces of Substitute Doll PKMN merch
https://t.co/7JdDDJJJW3 https://t.co/WeLuNmqXVi
https://t.co/XbCFYVB9oJ