Broad of the Mist 47

Before anyone gets too excited about the "new character", Sakaguchi didn't say anything about the fully coloured art of the girl with the animal being in TB. It was fan art I guess, drawn by a French acquaintance of a TB staff(Yanase) living in Japan who is a big fan of TB.

 

she's so badass!

 

Aww, too bad

I thought she was going to be a surprise character.

 

What is her name ? Princess Mononoké ?

 

I wish there were at least closed captions because it's easier for me to read than listen to Japanese, but I went back to watch that part and it seems to help this French guy get a visa he may have been hired as an artist for a job. I'm not sure if he said specifically for TB or just a one-time job as a contributor thing to help him get the visa but they asked him to "freely draw" a character to show his mettle and that character was the result. She has no name no setting. Who knows, maybe Sakaguchi will want to use this art since he seems impressed enough to show off his stuff on the stream. I assume the guy is now staying in Japan working as an artist now since they mention they converse with him in English, so there's plenty of opportunity.

 

In fact, that wolf-like girl is not consistant with the style of TB characters, some of the details ain't "TB" enough.

 

this is more work from the same artist http://makushiro.tumblr.com/

 

BTW note this at the title of his tumblr "·Artist 2d Avalaible for Work : makushiro@gmail.com"

 

He's very good. Sakaguchi commented the drawing shown in the stream didn't seem very "foreigner-style" but I think he was trying to emulate Fujisaka's TB art, his other stuff shows he's quite capable of different styles.

 

I agree with the general sentiment here that that design should make its way into TB. The 3 normal forms are great, and the "recode" is fantastic.

 

When i saw the FoxGirl i was like "not bad a new character almost ready and she looks badass" then first comment crushes my hopes. Well i hope MW will actually think about hiring the guy... So basically only coloured art of Nazuna for this stream ? lol

 

There are also the new Companions(?)

 

but that is nothing exciting probably more useless filler

 

Seems everything in the future will be useless filler, unless they start adding some new powercreep.

 

or more options on the current power creep

 

Or add some new gimmicks that tests our reflexes again (cough kinetic trap 2.0 or bring block meta back with walls gego can't go through).

 

I have to disagree here. I find Fujisaka-san´s art far superior. Sakaguchi trying to break Fujisaka´s paycheck? Shame on him.

 

I did mention it in some other post but I'll do it here because it sounds relevant. I think it would be cool to promote/advertise independent artist's work using TB. I mean, they did it with Kino Takahashi and with the different download starters, right? Free advertisement for artwork, and a win-win, IMO. Also, it could potentially lighten the load for Fujisaka, say if he ever got into a bind from an artist's block or something.