Smiles and Cries
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7th would make a better Blade than Shulk
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Xenoblade 2 official Japanese twitter account and website thread
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not sure what people want
Yo this one looks good. Hopefully balance stuff like this with the moe junk.
CGiRanger
Banned
Reposting for the new page. All the Guest RARE Blade characters and artists:
Seems like a pretty diverse lineup to me.
I just noticed a cute quirk of Uka where one of her shoulder-dragon things pokes her to make her turn around and introduce herself.
Finch - Kunihiko Tanaka (Xenogears/Xenosaga/XenobladeX)
Vasara - Yasushi Suzuki (Ikaruga/Sin and Punishment 1/2)
Hotaru - Taiki
Azami - M Hakus
Kubira - M Hakus
Uka - Nakaba Higurashi
Raiko - Mizu Asato
Seems like a pretty diverse lineup to me.
I just noticed a cute quirk of Uka where one of her shoulder-dragon things pokes her to make her turn around and introduce herself.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I've been wanting to make a thread promoting the different types of blades for a while now
Twitter accounts for...
Kunihiko Tanaka: https://twitter.com/netonevisions
Yasushi Suzuki: https://twitter.com/elegantsuzuki
Nakaba Higurashi: https://twitter.com/nkb_128 (private but links to website that also links to Pixiv)
Asato Mizu: https://twitter.com/mizuasato
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Raiko looks like a character from Tsugumomo.
yeah these could have been cuter
not sure what people want
These are my faves of the Rare Blades revealed so far.
Smiles and Cries
Member
not surprise to be honest
Neoleo2143
Member
Eh, the modeling seems about the same in quality to me.
Yeah, not really seeing it.
The modelling quality seems pretty similar. I think you're just liking the art of the Blades better.
Smiles and Cries
Member
CGiRanger
Banned
Thanks! It'd be nice to draw up a list of each artists most renowned credits (aka. what are they best known for?) since I'm guessing most people outside of Japan or extreme fans have not heard of most of these guys.
Hmm, I'm guessing that it probably wouldn't be kosher to post any links to Masatsugu Saito's galleries? Good thing he's done some non-H artwork at least.
At least what I know of is:
Masatsugu Saito - Lead Character Artist/Designer
Credits: Cyborg 009 Call of Justice | Expelled from Paradise
Tetsuya Nomura - Character Artist/Designer (Torna)
Credits: Final Fantasy | Kingdom Hearts | etc.
Kunihiko Tanaka - Guest Character Artist (Finch)
Credits: Xenogears | Xenosaga | Xenoblade X
Yasushi Suzuki - Guest Character Artist (Vasara)
Credits: Ikaruga | Sin and Punishment 1 and 2
Nakaba Higurashi - Guest Character Artist (Uka)
Credits: Baten Kaitos | Baten Kaitos Origins
Mizu Asato - Guest Character Artist (Raiko)
Credits: Denkigai no Honya-san
Taiki - Guest Character Artist (Hotaru)
Credits: Lord of Vermillion | Digimon World -next 0rder-
M Hakus - Guest Character Artist (Azami and Kubira)
Credits: Shin Hayarigami
kuroneko0509
Member
Thanks! It'd be nice to draw up a list of each artists most renowned credits (aka. what are they best known for?) since I'm guessing most people outside of Japan or extreme fans have not heard of most of these guys.
Hmm, I'm guessing that it probably wouldn't be kosher to post any links to Masatsugu Saito's galleries? Good thing he's done some non-H artwork at least.
At least what I know of is:
Masatsugu Saito - Lead Character Artist/Designer
Credits: Cyborg 009 Call of Justice | Expelled from Paradise
Tetsuya Nomura - Character Artist/Designer (Torna)
Credits: Final Fantasy | Kingdom Hearts | etc.
Kunihiko Tanaka - Guest Character Artist (Finch)
Credits: Xenogears | Xenosaga | Xenoblade X
Yasushi Suzuki - Guest Character Artist (Vasara)
Credits: Ikaruga | Sin and Punishment 1 and 2
Nakaba Higurashi - Guest Character Artist (Uka)
Credits: Baten Kaitos | Baten Kaitos Origins
Do any of the rest have any game or anime credits at all? Or are they specifically manga/doujin artists?
Mizu Asato's Denkigai no Honya-san got anime adaptation few years ago.
Taiki99 involved in bunch of games like Lord of Vermillion & Digimon World -next 0rder-
Hakus is chara designer for Shin Hayarigami
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CGiRanger
Banned
Thanks! I updated the list above with those credits. It'll be hopefully useful in the future when a big compilation of all revealed Guest artist blades are put together.
Perhaps they are looking for the actual videos? This guy has them on his channel:
Vasara
Hotaru
Azami
Kubira
Uka
Raiko
Finch was shown in the Nintendo Direct trailer.
James Scott
Banned
So the new blades are designed by popular artists? I guess that's cool.
The furry one is pretty bad but the rest seem neat enough
Animation and character model quality seem like a pretty big step up from X which is also pretty nice
The furry one is pretty bad but the rest seem neat enough
Animation and character model quality seem like a pretty big step up from X which is also pretty nice
Lol. Momo is an fanservice as it was. It is released in the era when Cardcaptor Sakura is damn popular with the loli fanservice at that era.
Yeah sorry about that should have clarified, legend appreciate the links!
jwillenn
Member
posted by xenobladec2 at gamefaqs:
From left to right, Finch, Vasara, Hotaru, Azami, Kubila, and Uka.
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Raiko
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posted by xenobladec2 at gamefaqs:
From left to right, Finch, Vasara, Hotaru, Azami, Kubila, and Uka.
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Raiko
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Dam these are so dam beautiful and varied love it!
NoA doesn't seem to want to market the game much right now, while NoE's only posting translated versions of some of the tweets. It's a shame. =/ But speaking of, they did tweet their version of the Tora one.
https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/919918408786939906
You can at least sorta make out Finch's voice from the Direct footage, but yeah, I guess they figure that westerners don't really care about who designed and who is voicing the characters.
CGiRanger
Banned
It is as I suspect as well. In Japan things like manga/doujin artists and voice actors have much greater popularity and name recognition than in the west. I doubt that NoA/NoE is going to pay money for special voice actors for these Blades, and most people here wouldn't recognize their artists either. Of the listed names, only Tetsuya Nomura one could argue has "broad reach" in terms of name recognition due to Final Fantasy and such.
As for why Nintendo of America isn't doing much to market this game right now? Well, the most likely reason I think is because they've got other games to think of first. Fire Emblem Warriors is just about to release, and of course Mario is going to get the lions share of their attention (though one could argue Mario sells itself without needing much in the way of marketing). I would venture a guess that once November comes through we will, hopefully, start to see more marketing of the game.
It's tough to compare it to how NoA treated Xenoblade X because that game had such a long lead time from announcement to release (still hard to believe Xeno2 is releasing the same year it was announced), and also released in Japan 8 months ahead. But NoA did release a lot of videos in the final 2 months to its launch, so hopefully that will hold true here as well.
I figure it'd make sense to at least have a video compilation of all the RARE Blades when they've finished announcing all the pre-release ones.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Not kid, just ki, no d.
A ki is a cackle, like when you laugh at something, but not so loud.
"This character design is giving me the kiiis."
"I'm kiing at this design."
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I think a better example is how damn easy it was to catch upskirts because of how short her skirt was, like we're talking in normal cutscenes whenever she has to do something physical it just be right there infront of your face
Xeno series had always had perverted art. It is best that everyone accepted that rather than act that Xeno had been shit with the design lol.
hurricanes
Member
What a bunch of trash designs aside from Azami and maybe Kubila
Agree.
Ouch the edge.
hurricanes
Member
Ouch does that statement hurt you much? Get over it.
TheMoon
Member
I hadn't even CONSIDERED that. I would die
DangerMouse
Member
These would be cool cameo rare blades, along with Elma since she was great from X.
Though I guess TheMoon has a point that it's somewhat unlikely they'll license those two for this despite how great it would be.
Edit:
Ooh yeah 7th would be a nice one as well.
Day/Night system shown along with Nia's wanted poster.
https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/920546606889385984
https://twitter.com/XenobladeJP/status/920546606889385984
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Xenoblade series is as far above the Tales series as the Tales series is to Star Ocean.