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Marvel’s Black Widow: MCU Easter Eggs and References Guide

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This article contains Black Widow spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review here.

The MCU is finally back on the big screen! Marvel’s Black Widow was supposed to be the official kickoff of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but then the pandemic happened, it got bounced around the release calendar, and Disney managed to release three MCU TV shows before Natasha got to take her curtain call on the big screen.

But that’s thankfully behind us, and Black Widow delivers terrific blockbuster action in the mighty Marvel manner. And you know what that means! Let’s try and spot all the cool MCU references and Marvel Comics Easter eggs in Black Widow.

The Prologue

Setting this prologue in 1995 gives us the approximate age of Natasha. If she’s supposed to be about 11 or 12 here, that conveniently makes the character the same age as Scarlett Johannsson, who was born in 1984.

The general premise of Natasha’s childhood, in which she was the daughter of two Russian spies is highly similar to that of the FX series The Americans.

This seems to be the late summer of 1995, which puts it roughly around when Captain Marvel was taking place (the official word on that is 1995, but little details in it, like Stan Lee reading a Mallrats screenplay could place it in 1994).

Young Natasha is played by Ever Anderson – the daughter of actress Milla Jovovich and Event Horizon director Paul W. S. Anderson. You will not be able to unsee her resemblance to Milla.

The first song choice in the movie is young Yelena’s fixation on Don McLean’s fixation on “American Pie,” a song about (among other things) the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and “The Big Bopper” J.P. Richardson. That being said, “American Pie” is about a larger loss of innocence, a theme that weighs heavily throughout this film.

Before Alexei turns the radio off to play “American Pie”, the station is set to 105.1 FM. This is WQXK, a country station based in Salem, Ohio that serves the Youngstown market. Natasha and Yelena’s American home is likely based in Eastern Ohio.

There’s an episode of DuckTales playing on TV in the background while they have dinner. We can’t tell what episode it is, but DuckTales ruled, and the new series was even better. And hey, we get some payoff later in the movie when they play an aircraft crash for laughs while having everyone just casually walk it off.

Alexei was working undercover in the US at the North Institute, which he burned to the ground before making his escape. In Black Widow Vol 3 #1, Natasha decided to retire to Arizona but she and other Red Room victims were hounded by the North Institute. Spurred to investigate the situation, Natasha returned to Russia where she discovered much of the terrible truth behind her past Red Room manipulation. This was a story that also featured Yelena (and Daredevil, believe it or not).

There’s definitely an early SHIELD logo on the trucks chasing the family to the very end there.

The plane number is 258. In Incredible Hulk #258, we get the first appearance of the Soviet Super-Soldiers (later named the Winter Guard), a communist superhero team created for the sake of rivaling the Avengers. The original lineup was Ursa Major (more on him in a minute), Darkstar, Vanguard, and the fifth Crimson Dynamo (more on this, too). Over time, Red Guardian joined their ranks, though it was Josef Petkus and not Alexei Shostakov.

This is a perfect cold open, the kind that James Bond movies excelled at, and it’s far from the only Bond parallel we’ll get in the film.

The Opening Credits

There’s all kinds of stuff happening in the opening credits, including the film’s villain Dreykov being inserted into photos with various world leaders, including President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, and others. The Red Room’s influence knows no national boundaries, it seems.

The overall effect is to imply that Dreykov and the Widows have been putting their fingers on the scale for quite some time.

It’s also a nice touch that many of the “news broadcasts” we see here are from MCU staple WHIH.

There’s a shot of some vials with blue liquid, which allude to the Red Room’s attempt to create Captain America-esque super soldiers, which they succeeded with to some degree with the Red Guardian, but also makes us wonder if they tried enhancing any earlier Widows.

Smells Like Teen Spirit

The opening credits are set to a version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Malia J. You may have heard her covers of Seal’s “Crazy” and Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” in trailers for shows like Bloodlines and The Handmaid’s Tale.

We wrote more about the Black Widow version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” here.

When Does Black Widow Take Place?

This movie takes place in 2016, shortly after the events of Captain America: Civil War. General “Thunderbolt” Ross (William Hurt) is here to remind us all that Natasha is still in trouble with the government.

What’s kind of neat about this is that it’s the first Marvel “prequel” that feels like it is designed to be watched in its chronological sequence (minus that post-credits scene, of course). Captain America: The First Avenger makes more sense as a flashback interlude between Thor and The Avengers, while Captain Marvel makes more sense as a breather between Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. But Black Widow feels like it should be watched right after Civil War.

Thunderbolt Ross

Natasha brings up Ross having his second triple bypass. In Captain America: Civil War, Ross talks about how he had his first heart attack while playing golf and it gave him perspective and convinced him to retire from the US Army. It seems chasing down Cap’s allies hasn’t been so good for his health.

Red Guardian

We know that Alexei has been active as Red Guardian since at least 1983 or 1984 based on the tales of fighting Captain America he tells while in jail. He was apparently sent to the USA for undercover work in 1992, and then imprisoned a few years after their 1995 escape back to Russia.

Red Guardian’s knuckle tattoos say “Karl Marx” which is kind of adorable but…shouldn’t they be in Cyrillic/Russian characters and not Latin/English? Is this to troll his capitalist opponents so they can read them as he beats their asses?

Red says he fought Captain America in 1983 or 1984. The simplest explanation is that he’s lying but…what if he isn’t?

Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he’s telling the truth and there really was yet another secret Captain America active in the ‘80s. Now that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is done, we know that there was at least one “replacement Cap” and the comics indicate there were others. Or maybe it’s just Steve in the timestream…maybe we’ll find out one day, but we wrote much more about some possibilities for this here.

Ursa

Red Guardian breaks the arm of a man named Ursa… Ursa Major (Mikhail Ursus) is the name of another Russian superhero in Marvel Comics, whose mutant power caused him to turn into a literal talking bear. He became a staple member of the Soviet Super Soldiers/Winter Guard along with a Red Guardian. While the movie doesn’t depict him like the comics, Red Guardian does joke about him being a bear.

Taskmaster

This is a very different version of Taskmaster than the one we got in the comics. Marvel Comics Taskmaster has “photographic reflexes” and is a man named Anthony Masters. Here, in addition to the new gender (Dreykov’s daughter is named “Antonia” as a nod to the comics character), Taskmaster is cybernetically enhanced to make those “photographic reflexes a little easier.

There is precedent for a female Taskmaster. The series Deadpool MAX reimagined Deadpool in a cynical, dark, and very adult (albeit absurd and humorous) way. This lent itself to Deadpool-adjacent characters. Taskmaster was depicted as a woman roughly in her ‘50s who trained Deadpool and warped his mind.

There’s also Finesse, a member of Avengers Academy, whose powers are so similar to Taskmaster that she believes him to be her biological father. Unfortunately, due to memory problems, Taskmaster doesn’t know for sure and refuses to offer any DNA to find out the answer.

In the course of Taskmaster’s action scenes, we see her mimic a number of Marvel heroes, with a particular focus on those who played a part in the recent (by this movie’s timeline) Captain America: Civil War including Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Panther, and even Natasha.

We have more on Taskmaster here.

Who is Mason?

Rick Mason first appeared in his own 1989 graphic novel called Rick Mason: The Agent. Mason was a SHIELD agent mostly remembered for being the son of Phineas Mason, the Tinkerer. Granted, the Tinkerer we saw in Spider-Man: Homecoming isn’t nearly old enough to be Rick’s father in the movies and he looks nothing like him, so I wouldn’t expect any secret connection.

In the comics, Rick was practically forgotten about and killed off-panel. His son was one of the victims of Nitro’s explosion in Stamford, Connecticut from the beginning of the Marvel Comics version of Civil War.

Melina Vostokoff

The Melina Vostokoff of the MCU is pretty different from the one in Marvel Comics (who created by Ralph Macchio and George Perez in 1983). There, she was known as (we shit you not) Iron Maiden, and she was at least a former Widow-esque agent as she is here in the film.

Yelena Belova

Yelena and Natasha’s first meeting being over a bio-weapon/agent is very faintly similar to Yelena’s proper introduction in the comics, a 1999 Black Widow comics story where they were explicitly fighting over a bioweapon, not a “mind control antidote” as we see in this film.

The “face swap” trick that Natasha and Melina pull in the film’s final act also has the faintest of echoes of another early Yelena story, where Natasha “swapped faces” with Yelena to try and break her mind and get her on the side of the angels.

What Happened in Budapest?

“You and I remember Budapest very differently,” Clint Barton famously told Natasha in The Avengers during the Battle of New York. But now we know what went down…

Basically, Taskmaster’s origin story is tied to Natasha’s superhero origin. To fully defect from the Red Room and go to work for SHIELD, Natasha had to assassinate Dreykov…which meant the collateral damage of Antonia.

Of course, that led to Clint and Nat getting hounded by Red Room agents, which led to them hiding out for days together.

And before that, they were in that safe house apartment that was currently occupied by Yelena, hence the arrow damage to the walls.

Crimson Dynamo

Yelena (probably on purpose) refers to Alexei’s superheroic days as when he was “the Crimson Dynamo.” Sure, this is cute, but there really was a Crimson Dynamo in Marvel Comics! Crimson Dynamo is primarily an Iron Man villain, lots of different Russian agents have worn the Crimson Dynamo armor. It…didn’t end well for any of them.

The original Crimson Dynamo was Anton Vanko, otherwise known as the old man dying in the beginning of Iron Man 2. Although his son was known as Whiplash, Ivan Vanko was more of a cross between Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo. In the comics, “Ivan” was an alias Anton used.

We’re gonna choose to believe that Yelena isn’t just making this name up and that the Russians really did have an armored hero called the Crimson Dynamo, and if we’re lucky we’ll get to see him in a flashback of some future MCU project. After all, there’s that Armor Wars series on the way…

Also, there’s one thing that Crimson Dynamo has over the Red Guardian: he was immortalized in the lyrics of a song by a member of The Beatles. Paul McCartney and Wings have a tune called “Magneto and Titanium Man” which involves “a robbery” where “the Crimson Dynamo came along for the ride.” It’s great, and it’s on Wings Venus & Mars album.

Thor

Yelena’s line about how a “god from space” doesn’t “need to take an ibuprofen” after a fight is kinda priceless.

Mutants in the MCU

Dreykov tells Natasha that they were searching for the “genetic potential in infants.” Sure, this could mean anything like how athletic someone might grow up to be, but is there a chance they could also have been searching for a mysterious x-factor in a baby’s DNA?

James Bond

Natasha is watching one of the lesser-regarded Bond flicks, Moonraker. Of course, she still knows every word.

Dreykov gets a classic “Bond villain monologue” wherein a baddie spells out his plans for world domination before a hero who he surely thinks is either neutralized or could be swayed to their cause.

Antonia/Taskmaster is a Bond Girl! Olga Kurylenko played Camille Montes, a Bolivian agent with a vendetta in Quantum of Solace.

Remnants of the Red Room

Black Widow was written by Eric Pearson, who also wrote Thor: Ragnarok.

So… Natasha probably couldn’t taste that peanut butter and jelly sandwich from Endgame, right? That’s too bad.

It doesn’t seem that “Fanny Longbottom” is a thing from Marvel Comics, but as Mason points out it is most certainly a real name. Also, Yelena’s dog in the post-credits scene is named “Fanny.”

We get an explanation for Natasha’s blonde look in Infinity War here, as Mason gave her the hair dye. But the way it’s presented here feels slightly like a sisterly tribute to Yelena, which is really sweet.

Natasha makes a crack about “the cavalry” as Ross’ troops close in, but folks hoping that’s an Agents of SHIELD reference are probably going to be sorely disappointed.

Dreykov’s pheromone trick that he has implanted in the Widows (and Natasha in particular) leads to this scene playing out like when RoboCop tries to arrest Dick Jones in the classic 1987 film.

“Thank you for your cooperation,” Natasha tells Dreykov with a smirk after getting him to monologue his evil plans. This is as close as we get to a Black Widow catchphrase – she also ended a veiled interrogation with Loki using the exact same words in The Avengers.

The Post-Credits Scene

Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss) is back after her appearances in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. If we had to hazard a guess, she’s putting together a team of “Dark Avengers” or “Thunderbolts” for the MCU.

Florence Pugh is indeed confirmed to appear in the upcoming Disney+ Hawkeye series, as well.

We went into much more detail about what the post-credits scene means for the future of the MCU right here.

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I’m quite active on the free! Fanbase and something that I’ve noticed is that the reason makoharu is as popular as it is, is because majority of its stans are people who watched free! Once like 5 years ago. They also tend to be Makoto stans and they just want it because “mako deserves it” A lot of the people who actually are into free! or focus on Haru’s feelings always ship Rinharu, and it’s because if you look at what Haru wants it’s clear that he wants Rin.

Yeah, it’s true. Lots of ppl told me that they’ve seen it completely differently after rewatching it at a mature age. But even though I can’t relate to it when it comes to anime, cause I’ve started watching it at 19, I still don’t get for what reason you can hate Rin at 13, but love at 20, you know. Just because I really can’t find any reason to hate Rin. At all. Maybe it’s cause my mom stuffed me with books since I were young, but I’ve never had such thing like I hated some character and then reread some book or rewatched some movie later and it was like a complete opposite. But at the same time, my mom recently showed her kids in class BNHA and she said that many asked “why Bakugou is so evil?” which I think is pretty dumb for a 13/14 olds to be so shallow minded.

I mean, you can not fully understand grown up stuff, like you know, disney cartoons have something that only adults will get, but generally you should be able to see past the surface. But also I just don’t think you can appreaciate Free! being very young, cause as I said before, even tho it’s not that deep and silly at times, the beauty of it to me is that it’s so fucking relatable to ppl who’s been though stuff like that. Like not knowing what to do with yourself after school even tho you have great options.. I’ve been though that. Wanting to do what you love, but being afraid that this being your job will ruin it for you... check. Recently I’ve lost my grandpa, and this was the first time I went through smth like that, and it was a horrible time for my mom and I don’t live with my parents, but actually that picture of Rin from Yakusoku was stuck in my head and it moved me to get it together and do stuff for her, I probably wouldn’t before. So it’s not as silly as it seems if you know the feeling.

When it comes to Makoto, I’ve talked about it in this post already, I do not get why he has so many fans. I find it super sad. Cause every smart adult would never see Makoto as a reliable person in life (and that’s like the main button makoharu try to push). This fandom constantly markets him as an extremely good and etc while they dont even see that usually he’s either spineless, either plain stupid (that ocean saving Rei scene just pisses me off so fucking much to this day). I feel like the “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” is about him seriously. Every good friend can bring food, but at the end of the day it’s the tough situations that counts at least to me. And when it comes to them, if anybody noticed we’re on our own. Or we need to call Rin.

About “he deserves it”... And Haru doesn’t deserve anything in their opinion? Being with the person who makes him feel alive and his heart go boom-boom, who makes him reach for the stars and see the world, makes him want silly things like rainbows in the pool... that doesn’t matter, right? haha

I think when you ship something, you should think about both sides. You can’t just love one and don’t care for other... it leads to... well, this. Cause Rin makes Haru the best version of himself and Haru makes Rin the best version of himself. And that’s how it usually works in literally all of my ships.

Also this whole thing the makoharu fans are saying remind me of Yokozawa from “Sekaiichi Hatsukoi”, who went “but I was with him all the time, when you weren’t.. you left”. That’s not how it even works dude, and just because there was a misunderstanding doesn’t mean they can’t love each other anymore. It wasn’t Onodera’s fault and Rin’s fault, yeah, they left in the heat of the moment, but sometimes circurmstances play a bigger role. Plus let’s be honest, it needed to happen, otherwise they wouldn’t be this amazing and strong as they’re right now. That “I loved you before, but the person I’m in love with right now is you in the present.” got stuck in my head forever. I truly believe that Haru loves Rin even more as he is right now, same goes to Wangxian, Mikayuu and lots of ships. Separation is sad, but sometimes its needed for characters to get to where they are now.

I feel like this ship also started at times, when it was “very cool” to brand every ship ever as “abusive” for no reason and I laughed a lot at this phase, especially young ppl tended to throw stuff like “he’s not good for her/him”, when even a light argument happened. And that’s just so dumb, cause I felt like most didn’t even know what they’re talking about, it was just “cool” xD. I’m glad this phase has passed tho, cause it started to get.. not funny lol

I find it extremely hilarious tho that after all it’s been proven that Rin is what best for Haru, which I think was obvious from the very beginning. And I haven’t seen any new makoharu related anything for ages, nor on youtube, nor on “free!” tag, so I sometimes even forget that it’s the most popular ship in Free. In 2014 maybe? I’m just happy here, cause Harurin are together, they’re happy, they got evething they wanted, and Rin is glued to us right now haha What else do I need. I’m gonna edit the kisses myself haha I’m working on stuff to get better at this lolz

#answered #anonymous #rinharu #harurin #Free!#haru deserves to be loved by the person he loves the end of the discussion lmao #free #rin matsuoka #nanase haruka #otp

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I request: Leonardo. Please and thank you 🙏.

Idk if everyone loves Leo or if my header and avatar just remind everyone about this amazing blue boy. (This one’s super silly btw. I’m just sillier as time goes on. Character development I guess?)

The iconic leador Leonardo (1987)

Bro idk why but I loved this Leo. I have a tiny memory, especially with this version but I clearly remember that I thought he was the funniest and the coolest. I mean, he had swords, what was I supposed to do as a 7-year-old. NOT like him??? Anyway, while Raph was the best at insult comedy, I think Leo had the best puns and punchlines. I really like how nonchalant this Leo is compared to his iterations, going along with really silly ideas and having fun along the way. But because of this, his leadership is a little forced at times, he seems like such a chill and fun dude that when he gets serious, I have to squint and ask ‘are you Leo? Or were you just putting on act a moment ago?’ Or my perception is entirely warped over time. Either way, good turtle boy, could have used some work tho. 5.7/10

Here comes grumpy lad wooo this is all read very monotone btw Fearless Leader (2003)

What. What the fuck happened. I was actually so confused when Leo turned really angry and serious and almost manic. I thought that episode when he popped into Casey’s window and was like ‘Hey bitch lets go beat the shit out of some lowlifes’ I was WOAH THERE BUDDY BACK UP BACK UP BACK TF UP. It was so sudden to me and when it was finally explained, it made some sense??? Like yeah, character development is great an’ all but this ain’t it chief. I can’t imagine what it was like having to wait for these episodes to release one at a time. Bc I watched every episode back to back on Youtube and I was genuinely bamboozled. But when you have an experience like that where guilt is weighing down on you from a situation you couldn’t control, it would’ve been HELLA HELPFUL to have at least a flashback, like a line saying ‘I was so useless!’ at BARE MINIMUM. Like right after Shredder is booted off to Planet Zula, Donnie would notice that Leo didn’t seem all that happy and would ask why and Leo would get upset and yell at Donnie saying that ‘You wouldn’t understand’, ‘You don’t know how I felt, how I feel because of that’, etc. Like you don’t even have to say he felt guilty or helpless, just give us something to grab onto. We’re merely six-year-olds who thought they could climb the YMCA rock wall in easy mode but instead the script riders harnessed us up on the hard one and wouldn’t let us come down until we rang the little bell at the top. I think that is the only problem I had with his Leo. The sudden change of calm and decisive to angry and irrational was so jarring that it felt unnatural without that crucial context. If you want a surprise reveal, at least hint at the reveal (like just about every Disney movie with their ‘twist’ villains) not wait until the very last moment. I think this might be my least favorite Leo and I think the season where he stood out the most and seemed the strongest was Fast Forward (Which was GOOD FIGHT ME), especially in scenes with Dark Leo, his clone. He sees so much of himself in Dark Leo but he also sees something he had once grasped (AKA the poorly written character arc, I CANNOT stress how bad I thought it was). Although, I honestly think he’s a really good character and he’s a pretty neat guy. However, this score is entirely held up by Fast Forward and his connection with Usagi, sword bros to the end of time. 3/10 (2 for FF and 1 for Usagi)

And now a Leo that makes me genuinely feel UWU Leo (2012)

I cannot stress how much I like this guy! Like his design is so appealing, his dedication, his obsession with Space Heroes, like I FUCKING LOVE IT. And everyone knows, that shit with Karai, at first when they didn’t realize they were related, I can let slide but kajsdflksadf what even like why did the writers feel the need to add in more ‘love interest’ implications like yuck yuck yuck. The only two interactions with Leo and Karai that I really like are when Leo defeats her using the healing hands technique and when Leo has a goth/emo/punk/idk I’m new here phase and they team up and EXPLOSIONS. He was introduced to us as being incredibly naive and his idea of leadership is from some old cartoon that’s basically star trek but ethically questionable. After his fights in season 1, to the finale with the technodrome, you can see his growth. He’s able to formulate plans and make life or death decisions. BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE. When Leo got hurt, I felt like the oof sound effect mixed with some tears I normally shed at some Shojo manga bs. While the episodes following were super weird, it was a nice way to help Leo recover, not only physically but spiritually (Although I don’t remember the spirit arc at all except the epic Raph vs Fishface fight, so we’re skipping that). When Master Splinter really died, you could tell there was a huge impact on Leo, but he had to remain stoic and lead the family now. A lot of heartbreaking moments in this series came from Leo and I’m glad they took at least some thought into developing him. Tiny head Leo will haunt my nightmares, but the giggly fanboy will warm my heart constantly. 6/10

I only have one word for this Leo (Heroes in a Half Shell: Blast to the Past)

This is a super crazy bad idea accent on the super crazy bad part have I mentioned it’s also a really terrible idea/10

Okay, spoiler alert, didn’t really think this Leo was that grand Leo (2014/2016)

Painfully average. He didn’t stand out that much, Raph was part of the focus and had that touching scene at the end, Donnie was ICONIC and Mikey (with his weird-ass eyes) was super lively and funny! Leo? Uh, I don’t remember a single line he said. Because he never really grabbed my attention, I don’t have too much to say on this version. The Raph and Leo fight felt forced and the whole ‘keep this stuff that could turn us human a secret’ was pretty pointless and was added just to cause drama, I don’t even remember what that Splinter and Leo conversation was about. Design-wise, really neat! You can see some more traditional Japanese clothing/style mixed with modern (I’d feel a lot better about this assumption if some could tell exactly what the heck he’s wearing, but I get traditional Japan warrior vibes from it) in his look which was super neat! Other than that, if you like him, please tell me why because I don’t get. He was just kinda eh. 5/10

AHHH MY BOY YASSS WHOOO!! Neon Leon (2018)

Okay, I loved Ben Schwarts already from Parks and Rec but like him being Sonic AND Leo, like DUDE. He’s super funny by himself but teamed up with this shows writing and animation, it makes it hilarious. I literally love this Leo so much, maybe because we’re alike but honestly, he’s amazing. I love his design with the red and yellow crescents accenting his skin and livening up his color pallet. He has a very healthy and natural dynamic with his brothers, he’s the first to know what’s wrong and tries his best to make up for his actions. This is really prominent in the most recent episodes, along with the episode portal jacked. In both, Leo is separated from his brothers. Portal Jacked is in a more literal sense, while Air Turtle handles in more of an emotional sense. While both are brief, Leo sees his error and tries his best to make it up to them. I love his dynamic so much and it’s so nice to see something like this compared to the unnecessary drama and tension between the brothers in the previous series. It’s refreshing and this is something a younger audience needs to see; instead of fighting, it’s better to work together and improve yourself along the way. Improvement is a big theme for Leo here. He’s a goofball, makes jokes at every opportunity and isn’t quite skilled at fighting or using his weapon. But he grows over time, he learns to manage his power and he’s working on mastering it. He’s trying to put aside his narcissism more and focuses on his family. I think the approach they took with him rising to leader rather than slapping it on his forehead was the goddamn best decision they could make. He’s making plans, finding loopholes, helping out and getting out of his comfort zone. I cannot stress how well this show has handled Leo, along with the other characters. I can’t wait to see more episodes about his growth and I am awarding him with one of the greatest honors I could give... 10/10

Storytime: I drew a super cute 2012 Leo, you should look at him. Shameless self-promo, but you should follow me on my main blog bc I’m nice and I draw pretty pictures. Also. I have a little 2012 Leo Happy Meal toy??? I think??? guarding my window and he’s been there for YEARS. I need to bring him in and refresh his paint job.

Wow! I didn’t expect this many requests for Leo, so the blog will be momentarily spammed with the requests, but it shouldn’t be too much! Up next should be the last turtle (Mikey) and then we can get to some REALLY great requests I’m eager to answer. As usual, please comment and reblog! I’d love to hear your opinion!

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surveys4ever · 3 years

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25.

Section 1 – Who were you?

Think back as far as you can. What is the first memory you have? I think meeting my (now) dad for the first time when he and my mom were dating. I was very upset because he was short and that’s not what dads were supposed to look like in my 3 year old eyes since my bio dad was super tall.

What is something you remember enjoying very much as a small child? Playing Barbies, watching Barney, Happy Meals, being with my grandma.

How old were you, when you made your very first friend? Probably preschool.

Are you still friends with this person today? Facebook friends, yeah. Real friends, no.

Was there a story somebody read or told you that has stuck with you? No one ever read to me after I learned to read for myself so one day I was sick and I came home and curled up with my mom on the couch and asked her to read me a Little Mermaid book I had and she did, even though I had to get up to go shit myself halfway through and it meant a lot to me at the time.

What is something you get an immense feeling of nostalgia from? Hannah Montana for some reason. It was my favorite show and we didn’t get the Disney channel so whenever we went to a hotel, nobody could tell me fuckin NOTHING because we were watching Hannah Montana whether they liked it or not.

As a child, were you a sore loser or a sore winner? I was the only child for 8 years and then the oldest after that so I never lost at anything and now when I do, I feel like I'm the biggest piece of shit loser there’s ever been. So that’s fun.

Did you go through the "naked phase"? I learned that you didn’t have to sleep in pajamas and you could just sleep naked so I did it for a while but then realized that I much preferred pajamas.

Which television shows do you watch the most as a child? I loved TV so basically all of the 90′s/early 2000′s shows there were.

Did you play with siblings, neighbourhood kids or by yourself? Either with neighborhood/school kids or by myself. I didn’t ever really have siblings who weren’t my kids, if that makes sense.

Is there something you really miss from your childhood today? I miss back when everything was simple.

Section 2 – Likes and interests

Would you ever like to try competitive pinball playing? Ummm, no.

Do you knit, crochet or cross stitch? I’m trying to teach myself to crochet.

Have you ever, or would you like to attend a gaming or comic convention? No thx.

What's your opinion on online multiplayer games? I really liked Among Us for a while there but I don’t really enjoy how rude everyone is on online games.

Do you like to go cycling? If so, where? Uh no.

Have you ever tried woodturning? If not, would you like to? Never tried it, don’t really have any desire to, but it can be relaxing to watch!

Do you enjoy drawing? If so, what do you usually draw? I do! I usually draw graphics for YouTube videos or doodle over Instagram photos, draw things to put on shirts with my Cricut, etc. I use my iPad for so many things.

Have you ever attended a painting class? If so, what did you create? I haven’t but I would like to!

How about a creative writing course? If so, did you get any feedback? I took Creative Writing literally every year it was offered in high school and I always got awards for having the top marks in the class.

What is your favourite form of exercise? No thank you.

Section 3 – People

Who is the most important person in your life (besides yourself)? My husband.

Do people generally approach you easily? I think so!

Do you get along with people well? If not, what's the problem? Yeah! I’m pretty friendly and easy going.

Do you enjoy being in crowds or do you prefer your own company? I would much prefer my own company than crowds.

Which one of your friends have you known the longest? I still talk to the girl I was best friends with in the 6th grade on occasion so like 17-18 years?

Do you find it easy to make friends now? If not, what makes it difficult? As an adult who works from home, making friends is hard as fuck.

What is something about people that annoys you? Something I've noticed in recent years is just how entitled and greedy everyone is. Everybody wants something from you or for your skills to benefit them without them putting in any work or paying you for your time. It’s just gross.

What is something about people that you really like? We have really, really harsh winters and if you ever find yourself in the ditch for whatever reason, there will be a lineup of cars stopped behind you to help you push it out or let you chill in their car while you wait for a tow truck. On the really bad blizzard days, there are groups of men in big trucks that literally L I V E to go around and help pull people’s cars out of the ditch. It’s the only time I feel like there’s actually a sense of community around here.

If you live alone, what would be your criteria for a roommate? I honestly would never have a roommate because they could either be your friend or a stranger and living with friends is a good way to ruin a friendship if your living styles aren’t similar and living with a stranger just sounds like a nightmare.

How about criteria for a spouse, if you're single? I am married but my criteria was honestly that I just wanted him to be kind and funny and I got that tenfold with my husband.

In general, what's your attitude towards people? I can’t stand to be around grumpy people. If all you do is gripe and complain about literally everything, I’m out. No thank you. Why is your hobby being angry? Take up knitting or something for christ’s sake.

Section 4 – Habits

What is something you do every day without fail? Baby talk the dog and snuggle with Beebs.

What is your typical breakfast? I’m a leftovers for breakfast kinda gal but lately I’ve been having a bagel and watermelon.

Which article of clothing do you like to wear the most? I loooove me a good baggy T-shirt and booty shorts.

Is there a TV show you watch habitually? We’re currently watching Unhhhh while we eat dinner every night, haha!

Where do you usually spend most of your day? I really only sit in 4 places--bed, the couch, my makeup/work desk, or my sewing desk. Depends on the day which one I’m at.

Is there a product that you do not want to run out of? Moisturizer. I’m a dry son of a bitch.

What is your preferred mode of transport? Car!

Do you usually have something playing in the background when you're home? Nah. I’m in silence a lot of the time.

Where do you usually get your groceries? Walmart for the bulk of it, a local grocery store for the specialty items, and Target if we ever run out of something midweek because I cannot handle Walmart more than once a week.

How often do you go to your local park? Like once or twice a month in the summer!

Which of your hobbies do you indulge in most often? Sewing and Sims currently!

Section 5 – Favourites and dislikes

What is your favourite fruit? Watermelon!

How about your favourite berry? Strawberries are the only berry I like.

Which food do you highly dislike? Fish. It’s all disgusting.

What is your favourite song, and why? I hate this question. Who can pick one definitive favorite song out of the bajillions of songs that have been written??

What is a movie you cannot stand? Anything with Seth Rogen in it, any movie that's got a 3+ after it (looking @ you, Fast & Furious), and all the fuckin’ superhero movies that have the same ‘ah yes, this undefeatable bad guy that we have absolutely no chance against and will undoubtedly kill us all--but we’re going to pull through at the last second with the power of friendship!’ plot line.

Which trait in a person do you find most appealing? I don’t know how to describe it--certain people just have that spark and you can always tell right away if they’ve got it or not and those are my favorite kind of people.

Which trait puts you instantly off? If they’re religious it’s an instant no from me, dog.

Who is an actor/actress who you dislike so much you can't watch them? I really, really dislike Tom Holland. I honestly think he’s a terrible actor.

What colour are your favourite shoes? White!

What is a smell that disgusts you to no end? B.O., on me or others. I just can’t deal with it.

Which door handle/door knob do you like the most in your home? They’re all the same.

Section 6 – Culture

What is something very typical to the culture of your home country? Apple pie and baseball are the only things coming to mind atm.

Do you enjoy art? If so, which form of art is the most enjoyable? I do! But I prefer art that you can look at and know the artist is incredibly gifted and/or has put in a ton of time and effort to master their skills. None of that million dollar paint smear on a canvas shit.

What is something about another country's culture you don't understand? I feel like other cultures take their family and their family’s approval way too seriously. That might be rich coming from someone who doesn’t have a very good relationship with their family but I just don’t understand what the point of making yourself miserable to make your family happy is.

Do you ever attend the theater? If so, which play did you see last? Last thing I saw in a theater was Shangela perform a drag show, haha!

How about the opera or the ballet? Nope.

Which dance troupe do you enjoy, if any? ...they still do that?

Do you attend concerts or gigs? If so, which band did you see last? Not as much as I’d like to as no one good really comes here very often. Last band we saw was X Ambassadors and Paramore!

Are you interested in foreign food? I’m not uninterested but I’m not super interested either.

If so, which country's cuisine do you enjoy the most? Chinese...albiet probably a very Americanized version of Chinese.

Do you enjoy stand-up comedy? If so, who is your favourite comic? I doooo! Bo Burnham and Drew Lynch are my favorites.

Do you contribute to culture in some way? If so, how? I try to? I’m an influencer so I definitely have a platform of a couple hundred thousand people. Not sure what exactly I contribute tho.

Section 7 – Charity

Do you volunteer your time to anything charitable? If so, what? Newp.

Do you donate money to any charities? If so, which ones? No. I don’t trust a lot of charities, to be quite honest. A lot of them are very shady and I’d rather donate money directly to someone who needed it rather than it getting tied up in a charity where it might never actually see the people they claim to be helping.

If you have pets, are any of them rescues from shelters? We adopted our dog from one of my husband’s coworkers but she probably would have gone to the shelter if we didn’t take her.

Do you donate your old clothes, linen etc. to charitable organizations? Yes! We almost always have a bag of donations in our trunk that we always forget to take to the thrift store when we go.

If someone you know is in need, is it in your nature to offer help? If I can, yes!

Have you ever donated Christmas presents to children of poor families? We used to do that when I was a kid.

Have you ever had to rely on other people's charity? One Christmas when I was really young I remember my parents signed up for a sponsorship through the Salvation Army where a family adopted us and bought us Christmas presents and Christmas dinner or whatever.

How do you feel about donating to charities endorsed by celebrities? I would never donate to a charity simply because it was sponsored by a celebrity but I guess its the easiest way for a charity to get the word out that they need donations.

Is there a charity you absolutely never ever will not trust? PETA, Salvation Army, Goodwill, and that breast cancer one with the horrible CEO.

Have you ever donated to a cause that had a person going door to door? No. I extra wouldn’t if someone came knocking on my door asking for money.

In general, what is your opinion on charity? I already did my rant about them, haha.

Section 8 – Entertainment

Which was the very first video game you remember playing? Ocarina of Time I believe!

Which was the very first film you remember watching? That I don’t remember. Maybe that Barney movie with the magic egg?

What is your go-to form of entertainment? TikTok usually.

Do you have a large collection of DVDs/Blu-Rays? Nah. We have a drawer but we usually stream everything.

How about music albums? Beebs collects vinyls!

Do you prefer to have your music on vinyls, tapes, CDs or digital? I prefer digital and Beebs likes vinyl.

When and where do you like to entertain yourself usually? Either the bed or the couch.

Do you ever binge watch shows? If so, what are you binging now? Usually! I’m sadly in between shows rn.

What kinds of books do you like to read, if any? I honestly don’t read anymore.

Is there a book series you're currently collecting? ..

Is entertainment something you prefer to enjoy alone or with someone else? I have my shows and then we have shows we watch together. So there’s a time and place for both!

Section 9 – Internet

Do you always have access to the Internet, wherever you go? If not, why? Yup!

Which website do you frequent the most? Website website? Google. App website? Instagram or TikTok.

Which search engine do you prefer and trust the most? Googs.

What do you use the Internet the most for? Social media or entertainment.

Do you judge people who have their phones out all the time? If so, why? Random people? None of my business. But if we’re spending time together and I’m trying to have a conversation with you and you're not paying attention to me because your nose is glued to your phone, I’m gonna be pissed.

If your connection goes down, what do you do? Go do something that’s not on the internet?

Is there something you wish you could do online that isn't possible yet? I still wish you could smell things through the internet.

Do you remember the first time you used the Internet? When was it? Yes! I believe the 2nd/3rd grade?

What was a website you used to frequent that doesn't exist anymore? I loved the Disney website with all the games.

Do/Did you ever have your own website? That was the thiiiing back in the day.

Isn't it great how much knowledge and info we have at our fingertips? It’s great but also overwhelming.

Section 10 – And finally...

What is something you consider to be highly controversial? Politics, apparently.

What kinds of jokes do you like the best? I love a good pun.

Is there a person who makes you laugh effortlessly? Oh definitely.

Which part of your body do you like the least? My eyes.

What's something random, out of context you remember from your past? I don’t do well with really vague questions.

Do you wear shoes indoors? No, I’m not a heathen.

What's the silliest thing you've worn on your body in public? I don’t think I usually wear silly things.

What's the most important thing in your life right now? Just spending time with my fam. Trying to get over this anxiety.

What is the most distant point on the planet that you've been from home? Florida.

Do you enjoy trivia games? If so, which one's your favourite? We love some Trivial Pursuit in this house!

Are you more logical or emotional? My emotions take over and then my logic brings it back in. Equal parts, baby.

#survey

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retrauxpunk · 4 years

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Rain, I ask you: ALL the quarantine asks!

Animated character that was your gay awakening? not really an ‘awakening’ so much as a ‘hint’, but Azula from Avatar: the Last Airbender ... yep

Grilled cheese or PB&J? GRILLED CHEESE

What show/YouTube video(s) do you put on in the background when you when you don’t have anything to watch but you want something on? I don’t really experience this mood, but my go-to watch is the vlogbrothers YouTube channel

Your go-to bar order, if you drink? if it’s a low-key/work outing, lager or cider (esp the ones with non-apple fruits too); if it’s getting more serious (lol) or with closer friends or a more celebratory mood: vodka with sparkling apple juice

What’s your favorite pair of shoes that you own? these Doc Martens that are white with red hearts got ’em with my first ever full time design job paycheck. i did not take care of them well so they’re super scuffed/beat-up and very much not Perfectly White ... but they’re still comfy as heck, i still love the design, and they’ve lasted 3 years so far, let’s see how much longer we can make it ... also i think they’re a limited edition so i likely won’t get my hands on any replacements...

Top three cuisines? my cheap-ass answer would be, like: East Asian, South-East Asian, Western European ... but my non-shit answer is... Japanese, Chinese, Italian (ftr i’m not a seafood fan ... i just love the ramen and non-seafood stuff that japan makes hehe)

What was your first word as a child (that wasn’t a variation of “Mom” or “Dad”)? i have no clue

What’s a job that you’ve had that people might be surprised to find out you’ve had? cold-calling strangers to ask them to do market research phone surveys (y)

Look up. What’s directly across from you? the kitchen

Do you own any signed books/memorabilia in general? i have a messenger bag that i got signed by Jeph Jacques of the Questionable Content webcomic that i once adored ... and I think my boyfriend has gifted me a signed Matthew Reilly hardcover.

Preferred way to spend a rainy day? curled up indoors wearing something cosy, reading and eating something delicious. playing animal crossing lol. aaaaand listening to music, a good podcast, watching stand-up comedy, drawing, getting intoxicated...

What do you get on your bagels? What WOULD you get if you had access to anything you wanted? occasionally the standard smoked salmon and cream cheese, but i slightly prefer the meat to be, like, prosciutto

Brunch or midnight snacks? ehh fuck it, both???? both!!

Favorite mug you own easter limited edition waitrose mug, squat and round and yellow, painted/shaped like a very round chick. a Borb,,,,

What coffee drink would you describe yourself as? i actually thought about this and, uh, peppermint mocha. not for everyone, slightly weird, never fitting in with the regulars/being a default, but???? obviously awesome?? also: about 65% on the mainstream/hipster scale

Pick a song lyric to describe your current mood (and drop the name and artist!) The Wombats is the artist. lyrics are either “Let's dance to Joy Division / and celebrate the irony / Everything is going wrong, / but we're so happy” from Let’s Dance to Joy Division or “the edge of nowhere’s such a beautiful place” from Emoticons

Fruity or herbal teas? herbal but i agree with @queenofslime, black tea is the best

What’s that one TV show that you’re a little bit embarrassed to watch but you still like nonetheless? ...do i experience embarrassment about what i like to watch on TV? i don’t know if i do, because i watch relatively few shows ... and have relatively little shame? maybe???

That book you were forced to read for class but actually ended up enjoying? ftr i wasn’t bitter about this before reading, i had no preconceived biases against, and i was pretty open to liking it -- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Do you match your socks? if they’re of a really nice design then yes always, if they’re of a more standard/generic design then ... not necessarily

Have you ever been horseback riding? yes a few times ... on the last time which was like five years ago ... the lady said i was a natural and asked if i’d ridden much before, which was. flattering. and yes this is a Brag.

What was your “phase” when you were younger? (i.e., Mythology Nerd, Horse Girl, Space Geek, etc) didn’t have much of a hardcore phase but i was pretty much always into fantasy ... oh wait yeah i did! i had a spy phase :)

Have you ever been to jail? to closed-down ones, yep

What’s your opinion on Lazy Susan’s (the spinning tray in the middle of tables)? pretty great idea unequivocably, right?

Puzzles? i tend to enjoy riddles/lateral thinking puzzles, i am impartial about jigsaw puzzles. i enjoy escape rooms.

You can only have one juice for the rest of your life, what is it? apple ... but elderflower if i’m feeling reckless (y)

What section do you immediately head for when you walk into a bookstore? young adult ... or stationery

What’s one thing you’re trying to learn/relearn in your downtime right now? Russian language :( it’s going не так хорошо

Who’s your go-to musical artist when you’re feeling upbeat? not sure if i have a go-to artist so much as go-to playlists i’ve made but some good ones are The Wombats and Bastille

Where could someone find you in a museum? mammals/birds in natural history

What’s that one outfit in your closet you never get the chance to wear but want to? i swear i was talking about this recently but i clean the fuck forgot what it was ... oh yeah, i have this short-sleeved black minidress festooned with silver buckles/buttons and also featuring decorative suspenders ... which, yes, does make me look like a sexy military officer,,, anyway it’s pretty badass and somehow it hasn’t occurred to me till now that i can just wear that every day now if i want? ftw i do get the chance to wear it, it’s just a little bit Extra so i get self-conscious. i’ve worn it a few times though. including to work. because fuck it, right? i didn’t become a graphic designer to be shy about sometimes looking like a prototypical emo/scene kid-turned-adult??? (ftr i was never an actual emo/scene kid. i lacked the requisite guts, commitment of feeling, and permissive parents.)

Rainbows, stars, or sunset colored clouds? sunset-coloured clouds :)

If you could own any non-traditional pet (dogs, cats, fish, rodents, etc), what would it be? how about a shapeshifting feathered dragon that could range from, like, two thirds of a foot long (20cm) to sit on your shoulder, to ... the size of a massive draft horse? (but longer and thinner)

Do you have more art on your walls or more photographs? photos, though if i didn’t live with a partner, it might be art

You have to get one meme tattooed on your body, what meme is it and where does it go? i’ve already got a meme tattooed on my body ... a private meme i have with my boyfriend, one on each leg (left: outer side, just above knee; right: outside, a few inches above the ankle)

Pick a superhero sidekick to hang out with ?????? is this a sidekick to a known superhero, or a superhero to act as your sidekick? also i don’t know? who are the standard heroes? i’m not up to date on this.

Lakes, rivers, or oceans? rivers or oceans

Favorite mid-2000s song i can’t decide a favourite, it’s too stressful, but one that i like is Rob Thomas’s Little Wonders

How do you dress when you’re home alone? either a t-shirt and PJ pants, or a dress (usually short-sleeved/sleeveless minidress)

Where do you sit in the living room (we all have a preferred spot, and you know it)? on either side of the couch haha

Knives or swords? BOTH but ok swords.

A song you didn’t think you’d enjoy but ended up loving hmmmmm like all of Linkin Park’s first three albums with some exceptions? hahahah

Pick an old-school Disney Channel Original Movie i don’t think i.....know any????

Are you a “Quote that relates to the photos” caption-er, an “explanation of where I took the photos” caption-er, or a no caption kinda person when you post pictures online? explanation, though on instagram quite often the photo and caption are unrelated

Name a classic Vine there’s only one thing worse than a rapist...

What’s the freezer food that you stock up on when you go to the grocery store? dumplings! as in the gyoza type.

How do you top your ice cream? that ‘magic’ chocolate sauce that hardens into chocolate. that stuff. i watched those ads all childhood long but my parents were immigrants and therefore very thrifty so we NEVER bought it iirc and then in my adulthood i got it a bunch of times. but now i live in the uk and can’t find it. and forgot it existed. and have never seen it anywhere.

Do you like Jello? the kind that’s served on a plate as a dessert? meh. the kind that are found in asian grocery stores as individual fruit-flavoured serves in little plastic cups? YES

What’s something that you don’t have a picture of that you wish you did? future stock prices? LOL ... or i’m gonna go with @queenofslime‘s answer again -- how others see me. it’s a great answer.

How are you at climbing trees? not............ good. i mean, i like climbing, but i have absolutely terrible upper body strength. i did bouldering for a couple months but only stuck to the first like... three out of nine difficulty levels.

#thanks!! hehe #quarantine asks #queenofslime #asks

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a-shakespearean-in-paris · 5 years

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11 Questions

rules: answer 11 questions, make your own questions, then tag 11 people.

thanks for the tag @thevikingwoman <3

1. The most beautiful place you have been

Oh I think any place I’ve been has it’s own unique beauty, and I saw so many beautiful things in Europe it’s hard for me to pick. The Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence, The Grand Canyon...Objectively though, probably Hawaii:

this is a beach on Oahu called Bellows which has great waves for surfing. My grandparents made fun of me and my cousin for getting wiped out, but we conquered and lived another day!

I actually like any place with water, this is a place near(ish) where I live:

texas hill country really is quite beautiful.

2. Pick a super power. Why that one?

teleportation. I dislike driving and it would be so convenient to get to all the places I want to go to. (Which is everywhere. I love travel.)

3. Do you have a comfort movie or show? What is it?

Several. I love old movies and oftentimes will put one on for some comfort if I’m working on some writing for background noise. Sound of Music, that Hamilton woman, Bette Davis films/Vivien Leigh films...lot of stuff. I watch the thorn birds once a year and put on Charmed (don’t judge) when I’m bored and cleaning, lol.

4. A creation you’re really proud of?

My fics Our Immortal Longings, In Waking Dreams, and my ten minute play I wrote/directed in college. Also all the papers I wrote for my Shakespeare classes.

5. Something you are looking forward to in the next year or two?

You know if the love of my life walked into my life I would really like that! beyond that though, my family and I plan on moving from the house we currently reside, which is the house I’ve always lived in, but I’m just excited for something new with no bad energy. Traveling more, working out more and hopefully getting more toned, starting a novel, lots of stuff.

6. Top 5 video games?

Red Dead Redemption 2, Dragon Age Origins, Resident Evil 4, Kingdom Hearts (first one.) Skyrim. I picked games that I both played a lot, impacted me, and just ones that I got the most joy out of through my life. though of course I love others!

7. A recent favorite anything (food/entertainment/clothing/??)

Cheyenne’s popcorn recipe: pop your popcorn in olive oil. Get some balsamic drizzle and drizzle on the popcorn. Get kraft Parmesan cheese and coat that popcorn in cheese. bad for you? hell yeah. good snack food? fuck yes.

also I realize this is old but I love the modern renaissance palette by anastasia. I was like “eh” about the red colors but I fell in love.

8. Favorite board game?

honestly not too much of a board game fan. Would like to play Risk though.

9. Stealing this one: I know that lots of people have “dinosaur” or “ancient Egypt” interests as a child; what was something that you were super interested in as a child? I’d love to learn a new fact about that subject if you’re willing!

at around 7 I had a dinosaur phase where I would check out all sorts of books from the library and ask my mom to read them to me. Around the same time I watched cleopatra with my grandma and had a Cleopatra phase...which I never really grew out of. 10 year old me was an Ancient Egypt nerd and my mom even gave me her cartouche she got as a gift from my grandma. (she went to egypt once on a business trip.)

I had a geisha phase at 13. My project on them actually won an award. I also had an Italian renaissance phase, a greek/norse mythology phase...I have always had a wide variety of interests.

10. A strange thing you googled recently, if you’re willing to share.

“death scene.” Some of you may know why :p

tagging @briarfox13 @negotiator-on-site @out-of-the-embers @gottaboopthesnoot @adventuresinastrangeworld @bitchesofostwick @schoute @dickeybbqpit @gingerbreton @thebakerstboyskeeper @chillyrose to answer:

Favorite supernatural creature?

Favorite Folktale/myth?

Favorite thing to wear?

What’s a piece of media (book, movie, game, etc.) that has had the greatest impact on you as a person?

Favorite thing about yourself? Physical and Non physical.

Favorite Disney movie? (if not a fan favorite animated movie would work too.)

What does your dream apartment/house look like?

What are your thoughts on marriage? (lol we had a discussion last night in class now it’s got me thinking, along with the copious weddings I’ve been to.)

Describe what makes a good ship to you.

What does home feel like to you?

Your favorite thing to eat?

#tagged #bunch of random questions hahahah

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From chara-design to graphic design: the artists behind Capcom's 2D fighting game characters

Capcom is a paradoxical company where illustrations were seen as a secondary part of the designers' job, made with the unavowed aim to attract aspiring designers. But the truth is that if you have never designed a cover art or a flyer illustration, chances are the public doesn't know who you are, even if you have designed or animated some of the most famous characters ever created. I wrote the following article with the intent to give proper credits to some of these famous unknown artists.

In Capcom's early years, there was a hierarchy which implied that newly hired graphic designers were assigned to work on backgrounds, then on characters after gaining some experience, and eventually could become planner (≈ director / game designer), but a planner could also design graphics. In a way, designers were specialized in a certain field of activity, but a designer could create illustrations, design graphics and logos for the same game. Such was the case with Satoru Yamashita on Ghosts'n Goblins (1985), Koichi Yostui on Strider (1989) who also directed the game and Akira Yasuda (AKA Akiman) on Side Arms (1986) although he only drafted the logo.

Speaking of Akiman, when he joined Capcom, he wasn't assigned on a game but was asked to draw backgrounds for practicing pixel art, which he did for 3 months. During the development of Side Arms, he was tasked to create backgrounds but he also volunteered to design mechas. A few years later, he animated Chun-Li from Street Fighter II in less than 2 months while his colleagues spent about 10 months on each character. It's probably around that time that he started putting his hands on almost everything art related at Capcom, creating drafts for some characters and designing or modifying frames for characters handled by other people.

Nevertheless, as in the whole industry, the artists who worked at Capcom became more and more specialized. Kinu Nishimura joined Capcom in 1991 and did very little graphic design during her career. Her first work consisted of animating Lucky Colt from Muscle Bomber, then she spent most of her time at Capcom designing characters and creating illustrations. Akiman was an exception, still doing graphic design in 1998, 13 years after joining Capcom, although he was managing the design team while creating illustrations. He once said that his main contribution to Capcom was not the illustrations he designed but what he brought to character animation (he worked briefly in an animation studio before joining Capcom). When the development of the first Vampire / Darkstalkers started, he tried to train new character designers by tasking about 10 graphic designers to create concept art during 3 whole months. While this exercice led to the creation of the characters we all know, it seems that the designers thought it was too long and wanted to go back to graphic design. Regarding background design, it was no longer a rookie job in the 90s. I haven't been able to find a lot of information about how the background team worked but its leader was Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子.

When you’re working on a developper’s profile, many problems occur. The first one is the use of one or many pseudonyms, be it volontary or not. The second one is that staff rolls rarely detail who did what. The third one is related to Capcom's policy. As pointed out by Akiman, staff rolls in Capcom's games were often incomplete due to the fact that the direction thought there were too many names in them. Akiman's name doesn't appear in many of the games he worked on (including the first Vampire/Darkstalkers for which he supervised animation and graphics, provided concept art and drew some key animations) but he wasn't the only victim of that phenomenom. It's not related to graphic or character design but the ending credits from Final Fight mention only 2 composers while the Original Sound Collection (released in 2014) lists 7 people.

The character designer wasn't necessarily the same person as the one who animated that character ─the graphic designer. Occasionally, the design of a character was modified by its graphic designer when he was animating it. For example, Chun-Li had pants in her original design but Akiman chose to remove it and to change her shoes during the animation phase. Sometimes, many artists were working (or were tasked to work) on the same idea, creating designs with the same concept in mind. The people credited as character designers are the ones who created the final designs. It seems that sometimes around 1994-95, due to the fact that the characters were more and more detailed and complex to animate, it became rare to have only one artist on a given character. If you take a look at the staff roll from Marvel Super Heroes ─which is notable for having detailed credits─, you can see that 3 of the 4 characters from X-Men COTA were animated by only one artist each (assuming everybody was properly credited), while the newcomers were handled by 3 to 13 staff members.

As Disney did decades ago with some of its movies, Capcom reused some of the animations originally created for Street Fighter II when developing Street Fighter Zero in order to reduce the production costs. It was confirmed by Akiman and it's even harder to give proper credit when this happens.

On a related note, when asked which materials an aspiring graphic designer should study, Yoshinori Yamamoto (animator on many Capcom crossover games from the late 90s) said that it was recommended to watch old Disney movies frame by frame rather than Japanese animes.

When Akiman joined Capcom in 1985, the company was already equipped with SMC-70 custom computers. SMC was a line of computers produced by Sony and designed for professional video applications but used by some video game companies such as Capcom, Namco and SNK at the time. While the SMC had its own graphic tool, Capcom developed its own: TCE (Tiny Character Editor).

Koichi Yotsui: "You had a 16 pixel grid, a 16-color palette, and that was it"

The Graphic designers used a keyboard to design sprites and backgrounds and many of them kept using that tool when mice became widely available (Akiman thought a keyboard was handier for pixel art and still used it when he made the Opening from Vampire), which was the case when Capcom switched from the SMC-70 custom to the A-CAT X68000 during the development of Street Fighter II ─the X68000 was bundled with a mouse. A few developers mention that Capcom also used joysticks to design graphics in the early 90s which is very plausible. I think many companies didn't have a policy regarding which tool(s) their employees should use to design graphics.

When Akiman started designing sprites for Side Arms and Forgotten Worlds (which became the first CPS1 game, although its development started before Daimakaimura / Ghouls'n Ghosts), he complained that the pixels weren't square, to which he was answered that it was impossible since the engineers had been asked to make square pixels. He eventually learned that it was due to a calculation error from the hardware team, which explains why the CPS systems have such an odd resolution (384x224). This also explains why he used a custom grid paper made of vertical rectangles when he designed key frames (otherwise his drawings would be stretched once scanned and displayed on screen).

As with other video game companies, many graphic designers had a CRT on their desk to get a preview of the graphics they were working on.

Graphic designers had more freedom than nowadays during the creation of a character. According to Takenori Kimoto, they had to complete the animation part 3 months before the end of development, but when he animated Anakaris from Vampire, he could design moves by himself and thus having an influence on the fighting style of the character. He handed many animations to the programmers who then had to decide what to do with each move (some of these animations remain unused). Eri Nakamura mentioned that the only instruction she had been given for Honda’s headbutt was the name of the special move (”Super Headbutt”). Note that the graphic designers from SNK had a similar influence on the games they worked on. "The in-between frames of animation were largely left to the designer’s intuitions, recalls Naoto Abe, designer on Savage Reign, so there may have been some ridiculously over-powered characters as a result."

PS: This is a WIP. If I find anything else, I'll add it to this post

PPS: Before he left Capcom to found Arika, Street Fighter II director Akira Nishitani worked on a few projects that didn't see the light of day. One of them was a 3D fighting game which evolved into what we know as Warzard. Street Fighter III was meant to be the first CPS III game and Akiman's aim was to improve the quality of 2D graphics, but during the development of this long awaited sequel, 3D fighting games became a big thing and a lot of players were waiting for Capcom's answer to Virtua Fighter and Tekken. Akira Nishitani recently revealed that he did some experiments with 3D characters on Warzard, then switched to 2D. He left Capcom shortly after with some of his colleagues to found Arika whose first game was non other than Street Fighter EX. more concept art and line art: https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=archive&db=videodb&name=secret+file&year=&manu=10&source=&submit=Search+the+Archive And if you want to read more about graphic design in Japan: https://vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179656817318/designing-2d-graphics-in-the-japanese-industry

Street Fighter / ストリートファイター (1987)

The first Street Fighter was directed by Takashi Nishiyama, then head of Capcom's development team 2. He was headhunted by SNK after the release of the game and left the company with many members of the development team. One of them was Koichi Sakita / 崎田浩一, described as Street Fighter I main artist by KOF XIV producer Yasuyuki Oda (who was graphic designer during the Neo-Geo era). Sakita later worked on Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, etc.

Some of the developers behind the first Street Fighter, courtesy of Capcom Vs SNK 2 director Ideaki Itsuno (first on the left)

As mentioned earlier, Capcom games' staff rolls weren't exhaustive but it seems that some of the developers of Street Fighter were allowed to inscribe their first name in the credits. One of Keiji Inafune’s very first works at Capcom was designing Adon’s portraits from Street Fighter. His name doesn’t appear in the credits though.

Adon / アドン graphic design: Keiji Inafune / 稲船敬二 (portraits only)

Street Fighter II / ストリートファイターII (1991) The first 4 members of the graphic design team decided who’d take charge of this or that character with a game of rock-paper-scissors. Satoru Yamashita was originally meant to work on Ryu and Ken but he eventually wasn’t available at the beginning of the development.

Opening Graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Ryu / リュウ character redesigned by: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Shoei Okano / 岡野正衛 (illustrator and logo designer on many Capcom games) Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (standing pose) Background design: Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝 (she also designed Honda and Boxer’s stages)

Ken / ケン character redesigned by: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Shoei Okano / 岡野正衛 Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (standing pose) background design: Miho Kobayashi / 小林美保 (to be confirmed)

Honda / エドモンド本田 character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 (she also animated Psylocke from X-Men COTA, Chun-Li from Street Fighter Zero, Honda from SFZero 3, Nakoruru from Capcom Vs SNK and co-animated Bulleta from Vampire Savior, Mai-Ling / Tao from Warzard/Red Earth and R.Mika from SFZero 3) Honda's birthday is based on Eri Nakamura's. Background design: Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝

The character painted in the background is based on Akira Nishitani Blanka / ブランカ, originally called Hamablanka / ハマブランカ character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Yoshiaki Ohji / 王子 (He also chara-designed Dhalsim but had already left Capcom when the development of Super Street Fighter II started, so someone else had to create Blanka's new moves)

Chun-Li / 春麗 character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 Chun-Li's birthday is based on Miho Kobayashi's (background designer)

Guile / ガイル character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (basic shape, walking animation) Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 (he also animated Cyclops from X-Men COTA (who also has a somersault kick), Ibuki from SFIII and Lei-Lei from Vampire Hunter. He is the one who came up with most of the names for SFII's special moves)

Zangief / ザンギエフ, originally called Vodka Gobalsky character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 (he also designed and animated Vega/Dictator, Leo from Warzard/Red Earth and Raiden from Capcom Vs SNK)

Ikuo Nakayama took inspiration from Akira Maeda's flying kick for Zangief's strong kick.

Dhalsim / ダルシム (originally called Naradatta / ナラダッタ) character design: Yoshiaki Ohji / 王子 graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 (he also animated Felicia and Bishamon from Vampire, Yang and Yun from SFIII, as well as one of the Predator from Alien Vs Predator)

Balrog / Boxer / M・バイソン character design: Toshiharu Matsunaga / 松永 graphic design: Toshiharu Matsunaga / 松永 Background design: Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝

Vega / Claw / バルログ character design: Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほ (she also animated Victor from Vampire and worked on Bulleta from Vampire Savior) graphic design: Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほ

Sagat / サガット character redesigned by: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku (he also animated Cammy from SSFII, Elena from SFIII and Morrigan from Vampire)

Bison / Dictator / ベガ character design: Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 graphic design: Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫

Street Fighter II characters illustrated by their respective graphic designers, with the exception of Blanka --his original graphic designer had already left Capcom at that point, so Akiman took charge of the illustration.

Super Street Fighter II / スーパーストリートファイターII (1993)

Cammy / キャミィ character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 ? graphic design: Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku

Dee Jay / ディージェイ character design: James Goddard graphic design: ?????????????????? The fourth newcommer was originally Fei Long's Twin (which means another face swap). Goddard submitted another character inspired by the one played by Billy Blanks in King of the Kick Boxers, AKA Karate Tiger 4.

Fei Long / フェイロン character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫

T. Hawk / T.ホーク character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: ??????????????????

T-Hawk’s early design. A colored version also exists according to Takayuki Nakayama.

Super Street Fighter II X / スーパーストリートファイターII X (1994)

Akuma / Gouki / 豪鬼 / ゴウキ character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣 (He also animated Ryu, Gouki and Guy from SFzero and Magneto from X-Men COTA)

Atsushi Iwasaki based one of the frames on the manual illustration created by Akiman

Street Fighter Zero / ストリートファイターZero, AKA Street Fighter Alpha (1995)

Ryu / リュウ + Ken / ケン graphic design: Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣 Manabu Nakatani / 中谷

Guy / ガイ graphic design: Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣

Akuma / Gouki / 豪鬼 / ゴウキ graphic design: Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣

Chun-Li / 春麗 character redesigned by: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里

Rose / ローズ character design: Kinu Nishimura / 西村キヌ graphic design: ?????????????????? Jojo inspired many character designers, including Kinu Nishimura who took inspiration from Lisa Lisa for Rose and from Avdol for Santana (Cyberbots). Capcom later developed 2 Jojo games on CPS III.

Adon / アドン character redesigned by: ?????????????????? graphic design: Daisuke Kurita / 來田大介 (he also co-animated Alex and Hugo from SFIII) Takayuki Kōsaka / 高坂隆之

Birdie / バーディー character redesigned by: ?????????????????? graphic design: Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀 (he also co-animated Oro from SFIII)

Bison / Dictator / ベガ graphic design: Makoto Ishii / 石井誠 (he also co-animated Hulk from Marvel Super Heroes and Zangief from SFzero 2)

Street Fighter Zero 2 / ストリートファイターZERO2 (1996)

Sakura / さくら character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: ?????????????????? background design: Hirokazu Yonezuka / 米塚啓和

Dhalsim / ダルシム graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 (pattern) ?????????????

Zangief / ザンギエフ graphic design: Makoto Ishii / 石井誠

Unfinished frames and their final version

Rolento / ロレント graphic design: ?????????????????? background design: Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵 (formerly known as Chie Morisaki / 森崎智恵)

Ken / ケン background design: Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵

Birdie / バーディー background design: Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵

Dan / ダン background design: Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹

Bison / Dictator / ベガ background design 1 (plane): Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹 Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵 (characters only) background design 2 (waterfall): Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵

Chun-Li / 春麗 background design: Kōji Yamamoto / 山本行史 Yōichi Tagami / 田上陽一 (bicycles only)

Street Fighter Zero 3 / ストリートファイターZERO3 (1998)

Cody / コーディー character redesigned by: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: ??????????????????

R.Mika / レインボー・ミカ character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 + ??????????????????

Blanka / ブランカ character design: graphic design: Mizue Morimoto / 森本みずえ Makoto Ishii / 石井誠 background design: Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子

Honda / エドモンド本田 graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里

Juni / ユーニ & Juli / ユーリ character design: Eri Nakamura / 中村絵里 graphic design: ??????????????????

Karin / かりん originally designed by Masahiko Nakahira / 中平正彦 (Karin made her first appearance in the manga Sakura Ganbaru!) graphic design: ??????????????????

Sodom / ソドム background design: Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝

Honda / エドモンド本田 background design: Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝

Dhalsim / ダルシム background design: Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝

Street Fighter III: New Generation / ストリートファイターIII (1997)

Akiman’s desk with an unfinished version of an illustration from the opening animation.

Ryu / リュウ character design: graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (basic shape, walk animation) Kenichi Ueda / 上田健一 background design: Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹

Ken / ケン graphic design: Kenichi Ueda / 上田健一 Tsuyoshi Nagayama / 長山剛士

Sean / ショーン character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Kenichi Ueda / 上田健一

Dudley / ダッドリー character design: Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹 (he also animated and designed many characters from the Vampire series) Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 (he also animated Mai from Capcom Vs SNK) Keigo Chimoto / 千本啓五 graphic design: Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 background design: Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子

Ibuki / いぶき character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 Jun Ikawa / 井川純 background design: Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子

Elena / エレナ character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku

Alex / アレックス character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (basic shape) Daisuke Kurita / 來田大介 Shūhei Kurose / 黒瀬修平 Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司

Yun / ユン, Yang / ヤン character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 Hiroki Shibaki / 柴木博基

Oro / オロ character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀 Yūji Imamura / 今村雄二

Necro / ネクロ character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Kōki Kinoshita / 木下晃城 Hiroshi Yoshioka Chun

Gill / ギル character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Yūsuke Yamamoto / 山本祐介 Seiji Yano Yuki Ishikawa

Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact / ストリートファイターIII 2nd IMPACT (1997)

Hugo / ヒューゴー graphic design: Daisuke Kurita / 來田大介 Jun Ikawa / 井川純

Unfinished moves (some of theme have been found in the Street Fighter III: New Generation ROM) and their final version.

Poison / ポイズン graphic design: Jun Ikawa / 井川純

Ken / ケン background design: Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike / ストリートファイターIII 3rd STRIKE (1999)

Chun-Li / 春麗 character redesigned by: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Makoto / まこと Keigo Chimoto / 千本啓五: character design or graphic design ????????? He also co-animated Captain America from Marvel Super Heroes background design: Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子

Ryu background design: Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子

Gouki background design: Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子

Elena background design: Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子

Ibuki background design: Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子

Hong Kong (Yang, Yun) background design: Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之

Subway (Ken, Alex) background design: Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之

bonus stage background design: Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之

Pocket Fighter / ポケットファイター / Super Gem Fighter (1997)

Amazon background design: Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹

Toy shop background design: Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹

Vampire: The Night Warriors / ヴァンパイア / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (1994) Demitri / デミトリ character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Akemi Kurihira / 栗原明美

Gallon / ガロン / Jon Talbain character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: ??????????????????

Victor / ビクトル character design: Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹 graphic design: Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほ

Zabel / ザベル / Lord Raptor character design: Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹 graphic design: Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹

Morrigan / モリガン character design: Hiroshi Shibata / 柴田洋 (also designed Felicia, animated Pyron. He was the main game designer on Resident Evil 4) graphic design: Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣

Anakaris / アナカリス character design: Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹 graphic design: Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹 (throwing technique)

Felicia / フェリシア character design: Hiroshi Shibata / 柴田洋 graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Bishamon / ビシャモン character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林

Aulbath / オルバス / Rikuo character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: ??????????????????

Sasquatch / サスカッチ character design: ????????????????????????????? graphic design: Mizue Morimoto / 森本みずえ background design: Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵 + 2 others

Huitzil / ヒューチル / Phobos character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Toshikazu Matsumoto / 松本敏和 (to be confirmed)

Pyron / パイロン character design: ????????????????????????????? graphic design: Hiroshi Shibata / 柴田洋

Vampire Hunter / バンパイアハンター / Darkstalkers' Revenge (1995)

Donovan / ドノヴァン character design: Bengus Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 graphic design: Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要 (special move) Mizue Morimoto / 森本みずえ (2-3 moves)

Lei Lei / レイレイ / Hsien-Ko character design: Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 graphic design: Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 (basic shape) Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹

Zabel / ザベル / Lord Raptor additional graphic design: Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹

Anakaris / アナカリス additional graphic design: Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 (he animated Khaibit)

Felicia / フェリシア additional graphic design: Tsuyoshi Nagayama / 長山剛士

Vampire Savior / ヴァンパイアセイヴァー (1997)

Bulleta / バレッタ / B.B. Hood character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 Takashi Hayashi / 林 Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほ Mizue Morimoto / 森本みずえ Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要

Q-Bee / キュービィ character idea (bee woman) = Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Makoto Ishii / 石井誠 Takayuki Kōsaka / 高坂隆之 Katsunori Takemoto / 竹本 Reiko Komatsu / 小松 Hitoshi Igarashi / 五十嵐

Felicia / フェリシア additional graphic design: Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要

Zabel / ザベル / Lord Raptor additional graphic design: Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀

Lei Lei / レイレイ / Hsien-Ko additional graphic design: Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司 Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 Hiroshi Yoshioka

X-Men: Children of the Atom / エックス・メンチルドレンオブジアトム (1994)

Wolverine / ウルヴァリン graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Cyclops / サイクロップス graphic design: Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志

Psylocke / サイロック graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里

Sentinel / センチネル graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 helped a bit Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 (to be confirmed)

Spiral / スパイラル graphic design: ???????? Katsuya Akitomo / 秋友克也 (he drafted the idle animation) (animator on Alien vs Predator and The Punisher who submited the concept of Vampire to Capcom) Marvel wasn't interested in Shuma Gorath and Spiral.

Juggernaut / ジャガーノート Character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Katsuya Akitomo / 秋友克也 (some moves)

Magneto / マグニートー graphic design: Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣

Akuma / Gouki / 豪鬼 / ゴウキ additional graphic design: Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣

Marvel Super Heroes / マーベルスーパーヒーローズ (1995)

Spider-Man / スパイダーマン graphic design: H. Fujihara Rumi Yamaguchi Tsunenori Shirahama Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (uncredited)

Captain America / キャプテン・アメリカ graphic design: Keigo Chimoto / 千本啓五 Masaaki Tanaka Misako Yamamoto

Hulk / ハルク graphic design: Makoto Ishii / 石井誠 K. Takechan Miwa Kanako Takami Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (draft, uncredited)

Iron Man / アイアンマン graphic design: Hiroaki Yoshino Kiai Ryuken Yukikaze Katsuhiro Nakano / 中野雄天 Yutaka Maruno Gepezou Kenji Mimura Kei Tokunaga Eizi Murabayashi Rika. Naoki Fukuda Takep Heno Heno Yuki

Shuma‑Gorath / シュマゴラス graphic design: Masayo Tsujimoto Jun Matsumura / 松村淳 Shinya Miyamoto / 宮本慎弥 Kako Masanori Kondo

Black Heart / ブラックハート graphic design: Alien.Pole Norihide Fujii / 藤井紀秀 Masaru Nishimura (as Dway Nishimura) Oyabin

Dr. Doom / ドクター・ドーム graphic design: Satoru Yamashita / 山下智 Hideki Ino / 伊野英樹 Seigo Kawakami

Thanos / サノス graphic design: Shinji Sakashita / 坂下眞司 Daisuke Kurita / 來田大介 Takayuki Kosaka / 高坂隆之 Masako Sato

Anita / アニタ graphic design: ?????????????????? Why Anita was in Marvel Super Heroes? During the second half of X-Men COTA’s development, Akira Nishitani asked the programmers to add something else. Thus was added Akuma to the cast. One of those programmers -Tarabar- wanted to do something similar with Marvel Super Heroes but there was little remaining space in the ROM so he went to see various graphic designers to collect data and decided to add Anita, a non-playable character featured in Vampire Hunter alongside with Donovan. Tarabar asked the graphic designer to add some moves. He left Capcom before the end of the development but he wanted to be able to play Anita in any arcade center, even though he didn't do any balancing or bug check on the character. He added 3 secret commands to let him play Anita and gave them to 3 different developers. Each developer was handed one secret command so that if there was a leak Tarabar would know who it came from. It leaked from the 3 of them. He was worried about Marvel's reaction but never heard anything about that. The special move "Love for you" is a reference to a song from Wedding Peach, an animated series based on a manga. This reference was kept in Puzzle Fighter.

Juggernaut / ジャガーノート additional graphic design: Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明 Rie Sato Kazuko♥Kawanaka

X-Men Vs. Street Fighter / エックスメンＶＳ．ストリートファイター (1996)

Cammy / キャミィ character redesigned by: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (+ other?) Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明

Apocalypse / アポカリプス graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀 (he also animated Jin from Marvel Vs Capcom and Chang from Capcom Vs SNK 2)

Chun-Li / 春麗 additional graphic design: Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明 +??????????????????

Juggernaut / ジャガーノート additional graphic design: Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明

Park background design: Chika Iwai / 岩井千佳

Big Tree background design: Chika Iwai / 岩井千佳

Boss Stage background design: Chika Iwai / 岩井千佳

Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (1997)

Norimaro / 憲磨呂 character design: Noritake Kinashi / 木梨憲武 (famous comedian who designed the character during a TV show) graphic design: Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明 Koichi Kikutani / 菊谷康一 Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀

Dan / ダン additional graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀

Dhalsim / ダルシム additional graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀

Zangief / ザンギエフ additional graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀

Marvel vs. Capcom (1998)

Jin Saotome / ジン graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀

Captain Commando / キャプテンコマンドー graphic design: Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明 Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司 Ryosuke Naoi

Capcom vs SNK / カプコンバーサスエス・エヌ・ケイ (2000)

Raiden / ライデン graphic design: Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫

Nakoruru / ナコルル graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里

Ryo / リョウ graphic design: Tsuyoshi Nagayama / 長山剛士

Dan / ダン graphic design: Tsuyoshi Nagayama / 長山剛士

Mai / 不知火舞 graphic design: Tadashi Noyama / 野山正

Osaka Castle background design: Chika Iwai / 岩井千佳

Cammy / サカザキ additional graphic design: Tsuyoshi Nagayama / 長山剛士

Capcom vs SNK 2 (2001)

Chang / チャン graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 本義紀

Todo / 藤堂 graphic design: Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫

Athena / アテナ graphic design: Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司

Evil Ryu / 殺意リュウ graphic design: Tadashi Noyama / 野山正

Gouki / 豪鬼 graphic design: Tadashi Noyama / 野山正

Mai / 不知火舞 additional graphic design: Tadashi Noyama / 野山正

Morrigan / モリガン additional graphic design: Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司

Terry / テリー additional graphic design: Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司

King / キング additional graphic design: Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司

Dhalsim / ダルシム additional graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 本義紀

Honda / エドモンド本田 additional graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 本義紀

Yamazaki / 山崎竜二 additional graphic design: Yoshinori Yamamoto / 本義紀

Chun-Li / 春麗 additional graphic design: Jun Ikawa / 井川純

Vice / バイス additional graphic design: Jun Ikawa / 井川純

Claw / バルログ additional graphic design: Jun Ikawa / 井川純

Capcom Fighting Jam / カプコンファイティングジャム (2004)

Ingrid / イングリッド character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀

Muscle Bomber / マッスルボマー / Saturday Night Slam Masters (1993)

Lucky Colt / ラッキーコルト / Gunloc character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Kinu Nishimura / 西村キヌ (her very first work at Capcom, the second being a character illustration created for Varth)

Astro / アストロ / The Scorpion character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku

Aleksey Zalazof / アレクセイ・ザラゾフ / Biff Slamkovich character design: ???????????????? graphic design: Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫

Warzard / ウォーザード / Red Earth (1996)

Tao / タオ / Mai-Ling character design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 (to be confirmed) graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Leo / レオ character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫

Tabasa / タバサ / Tessa character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (basic shape) Akemi Kurihira / 栗原明美 Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀

Mukuro / ムクロ character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要 Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほ

Sekhmet / セクメト / Ravange character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Akemi Kurihira / 栗原明美 Keiko Kitayama / 北山

Valdoll / ヴァルドール / Scion character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Akemi Kurihira / 栗原明美

Hydron background design: Chika Iwai / 岩井千佳

JoJo's Venture / JoJo no kimyō na bōken / ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 (Arcade - 1998)

Jotaro / 承太郎 graphic design: Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要

Dio graphic design: Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要

The world / ザ・ワールド (Dio's stand) graphic design: Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀

Shadow Dio / 影の吸血鬼 graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy

Iggy / イギー graphic design: Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku

Kakyoin / 花京院 graphic design: Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku

Vanilla Ice / ヴァニラ・アイス graphic design: Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku, Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy

Joseph / ジョセフ graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy

N'Doul / ンドゥール graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy

Death 13 / 死神13 (Mannish Boy stand) graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy

D'Bo / デビル graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy

Midler / ミドラー graphic design: Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy

Magician's Red / 魔術師の赤 (Avdol's stand) graphic design: Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀

Seth / セト神 (Alessy's stand) graphic design: Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀

Final Fight / ファイナルファイト (1989)

Guy / ガイ character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Satoru Yamashita / 山下智 Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (pattern drawings)

Haggar / ハガー character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Satoru Yamashita / 山下智 Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (pattern drawings + original dot)

Poison / ポイズン character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (pattern drawings)

Enemies designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Abigail / アビゲイル Akira Yasuda drew the head

Captain Commando / キャプテンコマンドー (1991)

Captain Commando / キャプテンコマンドー character design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 graphic design: Akemi Kurihara / 栗原明美

Ninja Commando (Ginzu) / ニンジャコマンドー (翔) character design: ?????????????????? graphic design: Eri Nakamura / 中村会里

Baby Commando (Hoover) / ベイビーコマンドー (フーバー) portrait drafted by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Mecha graphic design: Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Enemies designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗

Alien Vs Predator / エイリアンVSプレデター (1994)

Alien Warrior graphic design: Katsuya Akitomo / 秋友克也

One of the Predator was animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林

Sources: sprites: https://www.fightersgeneration.com/ https://www.spriters-resource.com/ drawing illustrations was an accessory part of the job: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/202699521220820992 Akiman: http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column-112429.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxIXilYv0kM SF25 (interview with Akiman) 3-month training: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/1038250874806591488 Akiman's contribution to character animation: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/431214613833601024 Akiman designed the standing poses, supervised the animation of the characters and the design of the backgrounds in Vampire https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/319385019120500736 chara-design training https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/964848439128244224 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/202708045178998784 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/303540585430654976 Yoko Fukumoto: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/90270578992353280 http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,148703/ https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Incomplete credits: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/44132045219307520 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300629500465664000 https://web.archive.org/web/20010424232149/http://www12.big.or.jp:80/~akiman/vamp.htmlSFII Chun-Li's pants https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/1041949588054102016 old Disney movies > Japanese anime https://twitter.com/0yamancha0/status/406964160941928448 Capcom computer for graphic design in 1985: Sony SMC-70 custom: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/1013648367837048833 Capcom TCE: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/309615270815731712 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/9312105796 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/309615067421347840 Koichi Yotsui, Capcom hardware for making pixel art and the picture showing Takashi Kogure and Akira Kitamura: The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers Volume 3 Capcom computer for graphic design in 1990: A-CAT X68000: https://twitter.com/KIMOKIMO_Club/status/1013817480496627712 Capcom switched from the SMC-70 to the A-CAT X68000 during the development of SFII https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/1013648367837048833 https://twitter.com/KIMOKIMO_Club/status/1013817480496627712 SFII, Vampire, sprites and keyboard: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/386598518380453888 non-square pixels: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/465506778763911168 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/465507673572519936 vertically rectangular pixels on CPS2: https://twitter.com/jetyam/status/898054896699580416 ...and on CPS1: https://twitter.com/0yamancha0/status/892658928110116864 Custom grid paper: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/497024882429800448 CRT and pixel art: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/904275001531969536 create animations then settle the movelist: https://twitter.com/KIMOKIMO_Club/status/826752555849969666 https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 http://www.onemillionpower.com/snk-40th-anniversary-talking-to-the-snk-creators-that-made-history/

Street Fighter / ストリートファイター (1987) Takashi Nishiyama: http://www.1up.com/features/the-man-who-created-street-fighter Koichi Sakita / 崎田浩一 - main artist on Street Fighter and AOF1 https://twitter.com/snk_oda/status/814062203699478528 http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,164730/ Adon / アドン portraits by Keiji Inafune / 稲船敬二 https://web.archive.org/web/20090717001245/http://www.gpara.com/pickupnews/news/2007040501.php Picture of the developers: https://twitter.com/tomqe/status/966707895415877632

Street Fighter II / ストリートファイターII (1991) SFII demo screen par Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 au clavier https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/387147039118594049 Satoru Yamashita was meant to take charge of Ryu and Ken + Rock paper scissors https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 Ryu / リュウ and Ken / ケン designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Ryu / リュウ and Ken / ケン animated by Shoei / 岡野正衛 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/303183680292143105 Ryu / リュウ and Ken / ケン co-animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 Ryu’s stage designed by Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝 https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 Ken / ケン stage designed by Miho Kobayashi / 小林美保 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/701.html Honda / エドモンド本田 designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Honda / エドモンド本田 animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300623508386484224 Honda's birthday is based on Eri Nakamura's https://twitter.com/KIMOKIMO_Club/status/926370689233256448 Honda’s stage designed by Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝 https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 Honda’s background and Akira Nishitani https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 Blanka / ブランカ designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Blanka / ブランカ animated by Yoshiaki Ohji / 王子 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/303182745276923904 Blanka / ブランカ was originally called Hamablanka / ハマブランカ https://twitter.com/nin_arika/status/576916053697015808 Guile / ガイル designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Guile / ガイル animated by Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300021334057054208 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300022204228317185 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/547060900218171392 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/551728379284578305 Chun-Li / 春麗 designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Chun-Li / 春麗 animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/544428185803165697 Chun-Li's birthday is based on Miho Kobayashi's https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/383489745080176640 Zangief / ザンギエフ designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Zangief / ザンギエフ animated by Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/303181283721363457 Zangief's strong kick based on Akira Maeda's flying kick https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/761212693323747328 Dhalsim / ダルシム designed by Yoshiaki Ohji / 王子 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Dhalsim / ダルシム animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/303541592113938434 Dhalsim / ダルシム was originally called Naradatta / ナラダッタ https://twitter.com/nin_arika/status/473986569959772160 Balrog / M・バイソン designed and animated by Toshiharu Matsunaga / 松永 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300650713103618048 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Balrog’s stage designed by Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝 https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 Vega / バルログ designed by Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほhttps://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300770019619532801 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Vega / バルログ animated by Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほ https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/8277519009 Sagat / サガット designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 Sagat / サガット animated by Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300019530334351361 Bison / ベガ designed and animated by Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/303181283721363457 Bison concept art: https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 designers don't systematically animate the character(s) they designed https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/201213042883694592 most of the special move names were given by Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 https://twitter.com/nin_arika/status/901255448296210432 SFII characters illustrated by their graphic designers (except for Blanka) https://twitter.com/KIMOKIMO_Club/status/909573514658582529

Super Street Fighter II (1993): Cammy / キャミィ animated by Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/551721127874019331 Dee Jay / ディージェイ designed by James Goddard http://www.capcom-unity.com/kramez/blog/2009/10/02/the_origin_of_dee_jay_straight_from_creator_james_goddard Fei Long / フェイロン animated by Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 Concept art: Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection T. Hawk / T.ホーク - Early design. A colored version of this design also exists according to Takayuki Nakayama. https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/918718084914995200 https://twitter.com/Shadaloo_CRI/status/918717721843417089 Guile portrait by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/496819524960649217 Blanka: Yoshiaki Ohji had already left Capcom when the game was in development https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/35757823245684736

Super Street Fighter II X Akuma / Gouki / 豪鬼 / ゴウキ designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/427291174668234753 https://twitter.com/iw4ww2/status/1055256008082173952 Akuma / Gouki / 豪鬼 / ゴウキ animated by Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣 https://twitter.com/iw4ww2/status/977481477435801600 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/580968550153609216 Gouki's pose based on Ryu from the SFII manual cover art https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/202806157675470850

Street Fighter Zero / ストリートファイターZero, AKA Street Fighter Alpha (1995) Chun-Li / 春麗 animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300623508386484224 Chun-Li / 春麗 redesigned by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/489578149185744896 (Street Fighter Zero Settei Shiryōshū) Bison / ベガ animated by Makoto Ishii / 石井誠 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/601.html https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/632641603501355008 Rose / ローズ designed by Kinu Nishimura / 西村キヌ https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/551726746915979264 Adon / アドン animated by Daisuke Kurita / 來田大介, Takayuki Kōsaka / 高坂隆之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/520.html https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/262.html Ryu / リュウ animated by Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣, Manabu Nakatani / 中谷 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/548.html Ken / ケン animated by Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣, Manabu Nakatani / 中谷 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/548.html Akuma / Gouki / 豪鬼 / ゴウキ animated by Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/548.html Guy / ガイ animated by Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/548.html Birdie / バーディー animated by Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/549.html

Street Fighter Zero 2 / ストリートファイターZERO2 (1996) Sakura / さくら designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/824954480076607489 Sakura stage designed by Hirokazu Yonezuka / 米塚啓和 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/515.html Rolento / ロレント animated by Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/548.html Rolento / ロレント stage designed by Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/585.html Ken stage designed by Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/585.html Birdie stage designed by Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/585.html Zangief animated by Makoto Ishii / 石井誠 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/601.html Zangief - unfinished frames https://tcrf.net/Street_Fighter_Alpha_2_(Arcade) Dhalsim / ダルシム animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 (pattern) https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html Dictator stage (waterfall) designed by Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/585.html Dictator stage (airplane) designed by Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹 and Chie Nakayama / 中山智恵 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/524.html Dan stage designed by Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/524.html Chun-Li stage designed by Kōji Yamamoto / 山本行史 and Yōichi Tagami / 田上陽一 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/511.html

Street Fighter Zero 3 / ストリートファイターZERO3 (1998) Cody / コーディー redesigned by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 SF25 Blanka / ブランカ animated by Mizue Morimoto / 森本みずえ https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/599.html Blanka / ブランカ co-animated by Makoto Ishii / 石井誠 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/601.html Blanka stage designed by Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Honda animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 http://www.capcom.co.jp/game/content/?p=7638 Honda stage designed by Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/288.html R.Mika / レインボー・ミカ designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 SF25 R.Mika co-animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 http://www.capcom.co.jp/game/content/?p=7638 Juni / ユーニ & Juli / ユーリ designed by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 http://www.capcom.co.jp/game/content/?p=7638 Sodom stage designed by Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/288.html Dhalsim stage designed by Asae Nishitsuji / 西辻朝枝 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/288.html Sakura stage designed by Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/524.html Dictator stage designed by Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/524.html Ken stage designed by Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/524.html

Street Fighter III: New Generation / ストリートファイターIII (1997) demo par Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/327.html Ryu / リュウ co-animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 (basic shape + walk animation) https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/173175185296474113 Ryu / リュウ co-animated by Kenichi Ueda / 上田健一 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/526.html Ryu stage designed by Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/524.html Ken / ケンco-animated by Kenichi Ueda / 上田健一 et 長山 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/526.html Sean animated by Kenichi Ueda / 上田健一 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/526.html Alex / アレックス designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/714664711338467328 Alex / アレックス co-animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/708357691131887616 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/787504283625201664 Alex / アレックス animated by Daisuke Kurita / 來田大介, 黒瀬, Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/262.html https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/598.html Elena / エレナ designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗, animée par Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300019530334351361 Elena stage designed by Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/327.html Ibuki / いぶき designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/950299884820733953 Ibuki / いぶき co-animated by Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300021334057054208 Ibuki / いぶき co-animated by Jun Ikawa / 井川純 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/326.html Ibuki stage designed by Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Yun / ユン and Yang / ヤン animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林, Hiroki Shibaki / 柴木博基 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html Gill / ギル animated by Yūsuke Yamamoto / 山本祐介, Yano, Ishikawa https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/584.html Dudley designed by Tadashi Noyama / 野山正, Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹, Keigo Chimoto / 千本啓五 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/582.html Dudley animated by Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/522.html Dudley stage designed by Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Oro animated by Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀, Yūji Imamura https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/549.html Necro / ネクロ animated by Kōki Kinoshita / 木下晃城, Yoshioka, Chun https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/559.html Necro stage designed by Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/327.html

Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact / ストリートファイターIII 2nd IMPACT (1997) Opening demo by Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/327.html Hugo / ヒューゴー animated by Daisuke Kurita / 來田大介, Jun Ikawa / 井川純 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/262.html https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/326.html Hugo - unfinished sprites https://www.neogaf.com/threads/street-fighter-iii-and-capcoms-pixel-art-process.1363079/ Ken stage designed by Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/327.html

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike / ストリートファイターIII 3rd STRIKE (1999) Makoto designed and/or animated by Keigo Chimoto / 千本啓五 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/551717157076492288 Makoto stage designed by Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Chun-Li animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/958080880236404739 https://akimanart.tumblr.com/post/86226662908/%E4%BB%A5%E5%89%8D%E3%81%82%E3%81%8D%E3%81%BE%E3%82%93%E3%81%95%E3%82%93%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E5%AE%85%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8A%E9%82%AA%E9%AD%94%E3%81%95%E3%81%9B%E3%81%A6%E9%A0%82%E3%81%84%E3%81%9F%E9%9A%9B%E3%81%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%94%E3%82%89%E3%81%9B%E3%81%A6%E9%A0%82%E3%81%84%E3%81%9F%E3%82%B9%E3%83%883%E6%98%A5%E9%BA%97%E3%81%AE%E3%83%91%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E5%8E%9F%E7%94%BB%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%82%E3%81%8D%E3%81%BE%E3%82%93%E3%81%95 Ryu stage designed by Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Gouki stage designed by Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Elena stage designed by Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Ibuki stage designed by Yoko Fukumoto / 福本容子 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/513.html Yang and Yun stage designed by Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/327.html Ken and Alex stage designed by Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/327.html bonus stage designed by Hiroyuki Imahori / 今堀弘之 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/327.html

Pocket Fighter / ポケットファイター / Super Gem Fighter (1997) Amazon, toy shop designed by Hiroki Ohnishi / 大西弘樹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/524.html

Vampire: The Night Warriors / ヴァンパイア / Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (1994) Vampire Demo screen designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 au clavier https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/387147039118594049 Akiman designed the standing poses, supervised the animation of the characters and the design of the backgrounds https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/319385019120500736 Demitri / デミトリ animated by Akemi Kurihira / 栗原明美https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300539472246890496 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/582.html Victor / ビクトル animated by Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほhttps://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300770019619532801 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/303562951586107393 Zabel / ザベル / Lord Raptor designed and animated by Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/582.html Morrigan / モリガン designed by Hiroshi Shibata https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/326524740409892865 Morrigan / モリガン animated by Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku, Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/326524740409892865 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/548.html Anakaris / アナカリス designed by Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/582.html Anakaris / アナカリス animated by Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/235668244088905728 Anakaris / アナカリス co-animated by Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/582.html Felicia / フェリシア animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林,Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/303541592113938434 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/497022510123073536 Felicia / フェリシア designed by Hiroshi Shibata / 柴田洋 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/326524740409892865 Bishamon / ビシャモン animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 https://twitter.com/FUTATSU24/status/1003069691428925440 Sasquatch / サスカッチ animated by Mizue Morimoto / 森本みずえ https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/599.html Phobos / Huitzil/ ヒューチル animated by Toshikazu Matsumoto / 松本敏和 https://twitter.com/felineki/status/1004199829407444998 Pyron / パイロン animated by Hiroshi Shibata https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/326524740409892865 Vampire Hunter / Darkstalkers' Revenge (1995) Donovan / ドノヴァン designed by Bengus (source: Vampire Artworks) Donovan / ドノヴァン co-animated by Mizue Morimoto / 森本みずえ https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/599.html Donovan /ドノヴァン co-animated by Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/266.html Lei Lei / レイレイ / Hsien-Ko designed by Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/551725874853068801 Lei Lei / レイレイ / Hsien-Ko co-animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/281.html Lei Lei / レイレイ / Hsien-Ko co-animated by Tooru Takaoka / 高岡徹 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/582.html Lei Lei / レイレイ / Hsien-Ko co-animated by Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/320.html

Vampire Savior / ヴァンパイアセイヴァー (1997) Bulleta / バレッタ designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/421339173291687938 https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=26617914 Bulleta / バレッタ co-animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里, Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300623508386484224 Bulleta / バレッタ co-animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林, Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ / 陰山みずほ, Mizue Morimoto / 森本みずえ https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/599.html Q-Bee / キュービィ - character idea "bee woman" = Akiman (Source: Vampire Artworks) Q-Bee / キュービィ animated by Makoto Ishii / 石井誠, Takayuki Kōsaka / 高坂隆之, Katsunori Takemoto / 竹本, Reiko Komatsu / 小松, Hitoshi Igarashi / 五十嵐 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/520.html https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/601.html

X-Men: Children of the Atom / エックス・メンチルドレンオブジアトム (1994) Wolverine / ウルヴァリン animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/632635945464950784 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/632636064352440320 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/632636913996828672 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/784766472685883392 Cyclops / サイクロップス animated by Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300021334057054208 Psylocke / サイロック animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300623508386484224 Gamest #135 - January 15, 1995 Sentinel / センチネル co-animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/497042352976850944 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/497042519088058368 Sentinel / センチネル co-animated by Takenori Kimoto / 木本壮紀 ??? https://twitter.com/KIMOKIMO_Club/status/966273528952643585 Spiral / スパイラル co-animated by Katsuya Akitomo / 秋友克也 https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1003061302632243200 Marvel wasn't interested in Shuma Gorath and Spiral https://twitter.com/nin_arika/status/488492321164365824 Juggernaut / ジャガーノート redesigned by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/835725451901333505 Juggernaut / ジャガーノート co-animated by Katsuya Akitomo / 秋友克也 https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1003061302632243200 Magneto / マグニートー animated by Atsushi Iwasaki / 岩崎篤嗣 http://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/marvel-super-heroes/credits

Marvel Super Heroes / マーベルスーパーヒーローズ (1995) http://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/marvel-super-heroes/credits Hulk animated by Makoto Ishii / 石井誠 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/632641603501355008 Akiman a filé un coup de main sur Hulk lors du draft et sur Spiderman au graphic design https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/632641354166702080 Why Anita was in Marvel Super Heroes? https://twitter.com/_Tarabar/status/1011595741884747783 https://twitter.com/ryugainai/status/982184067914350593

X-Men Vs. Street Fighter / エックスメンＶＳ．ストリートファイター (1996) Cammy / キャミィ designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/421332978971586561 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/705817728389517316 Cammy / キャミィ co-animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/497022707339243521 Cammy co-animated by Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/321.html Juggernaut co-animated by Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/321.html Chun-Li co-animated by Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/321.html Apocalypse / アポカリプス animated by Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀 https://twitter.com/0yamancha0/status/590131670000381952 endings: https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/728407785151438848 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/730400494187773952 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/728481571875889153 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/729646173036773376 Boss stage, park stage and big tree stage designed by Chika Iwai / 岩井千佳 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/547.html

Marvel Vs. Street Fighter (1997) Norimaro / 憲磨呂 designed by Noritake Kinashi / 木梨憲武 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8627095 Norimaro / 憲磨呂 animated by Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明, Koichi Kikutani / 菊谷康一 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/321.html Dan, Dhalsim, Zangief, Norimaro animated by Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/538.html

Marvel vs. Capcom (1998) Jin / ジン animated by Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀 https://twitter.com/0yamancha0/status/590517986001178624 Captain Commando animated by Hiroaki Minobe / 見延浩明, Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司, Ryosuke Naoi https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/321.html https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/598.html

Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (2000) Ruby Heart https://twitter.com/bengasu/status/90392688670670848

Capcom vs SNK / カプコンバーサスエス・エヌ・ケイ (2000) Raiden / ライデン animated by Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/824250573847334916 Nakoruru / ナコルル animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 https://twitter.com/KIMOKIMO_Club/status/1006385731831455744 Ryo / リョウ animated by Tsuyoshi Nagayama / 長山剛士 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/600.html Cammy / サカザキ animated by Tsuyoshi Nagayama / 長山剛士 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/600.html Dan / ダンanimated by Tsuyoshi Nagayama / 長山剛士 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/600.html Mai animated by Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/522.html Osaka Castle designed by Chika Iwai / 岩井千佳 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/547.html

Capcom vs SNK 2 (2001) Chang / チャン animated by Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀 https://twitter.com/0yamancha0/status/972773085848920064 https://twitter.com/0yamancha0/status/938782925935357953 Todo / 藤堂 animated by Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/824250573847334916 Athena / アテナ animated by Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/598.html Chun-Li / 春麗 animated by Jun Ikawa / 井川純 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/326.html Vice / バイス animated by Jun Ikawa / 井川純 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/326.html Claw / バルログ animated by Jun Ikawa / 井川純 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/326.html Dhalsim / ダルシム animated by Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/538.html Honda / エドモンド本田 animated by Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/538.html Yamazaki / 山崎竜二 animated by Yoshinori Yamamoto / 山本義紀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/538.html Terry / テリー animated by Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/598.html King / キング animated by Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/598.html Morrigan / モリガン animated by Shinji Kaminaguchi / 上水口真司 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/598.html Mai animated by Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/522.html Evil Ryu / 殺意リュウ animated by Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/522.html Gouki / 豪鬼 animated by Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/522.html

Capcom Fighting Jam / カプコンファイティングジャム (2004) Ingrid / イングリッド animated by Tadashi Noyama / 野山正 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/522.html Ingrid / イングリッド animated by Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/549.html Ingrid / イングリッド graphic design https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/760794081878343680 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/767203749907402752 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/778190390298021890 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/778189531287851008 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/793216484264648705

Muscle Bomber / マッスルボマー / Saturday Night Slam Masters (1993) Lucky Colt / ラッキーコルト animated by Kinu Nishimura / 西村キヌ https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300046158917672960 http://neogeo.freeplaytech.com/svc/interview/interview03/interview03.htm Astro / アストロ animated by Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/666.html Aleksey Zalazof / アレクセイ・ザラゾフ / Biff Slamkovich animated by Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132581 Warzard / ウォーザード / Red Earth (1996) prototyped in 3D by Nishitani https://twitter.com/nin_arika/status/834193181423964160 Tao / タオ / Mai-Ling co-animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/497042165525012481 Tao / タオ / Mai-Ling co-animated Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300623508386484224 Leo / レオ animated by Ikuo Nakayama / 中山郁夫 https://twitter.com/takaNakayama/status/824250573847334916 Tabasa / タバサ / Tessa co-animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/787504283625201664 Mukuro / ムクロ animated by Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要, Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/266.html Sekhmet / セクメト / Ravange animated by Akemi Kurihira / 栗原明美, Keiko Kitayama / 北山 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/586.html Valdoll / ヴァルドール / Scion animated by Akemi Kurihira / 栗原明美 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/586.html Hydron stage by Chika Iwai / 岩井千佳 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/547.html

JoJo's Venture / JoJo no kimyō na bōken / ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 (1998) Jotaro / 承太郎 animated by Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/266.html Dio animated by Kaname Fujioka / 藤岡要 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/266.html The world / ザ・ワールド (Dio's stand) animated by Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/549.html Iggy / イギー animated by Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/666.html Kakyoin / 花京院 animated by Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/666.html Vanilla Ice / ヴァニラ・アイス animated by Mori / 森 / Q Kyoku, Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/666.html Joseph / ジョセフ animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html N'Doul / ンド��ール animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html Death Thirteen / 死神13 (Mannish Boy stand) animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html Devo / デビル animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html Midler / ミドラー animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html Magician's Red / 魔術師の赤 (Avdol's stand) animated by Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/549.html Seth / セト神 (Alessy's stand) animated by Norihide Fujī / 藤井紀秀 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/549.html Shadow Dio / 影の吸血鬼 animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 / Ball Boy https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/667.html

Final Fight / ファイナルファイト (1989) Design doc: Capcom Beat’em Up Bundle http://www.capcom.co.jp/game/content/?p=12885 http://fightingstreet.com/folders/artworkfolder/artworkpages/ff_art_pages/ff1_art_pages/ff1_concept_art.html Haggar / ハガー : pattern drawings + original dot by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/787504283625201664 Haggar / ハガー animated by Satoru Yamashita / 山下智 http://www.capcom.co.jp/game/content/?p=12885 Guy / ガイ animated by Satoru Yamashita / 山下智. Pattern by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 http://www.capcom.co.jp/game/content/?p=12885 Poison designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 http://www.capcom.co.jp/game/content/?p=12885 Abigail designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/886901709661806592 Enemies designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/1047377646340866048

Captain Commando / キャプテンコマンドー (1991) Design doc: Capcom Beat’em Up Bundle Ginzu the Ninja / 翔 animated by Eri Nakamura / 中村会里 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/281.html Captain Commando designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/1032914237742411776 Captain Commando animated by Akemi Kurihara / 栗原明美 https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/586.html Baby Commando portrait by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/421330611232464896 Mecha animated by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/708364028884688897 Enemies designed by Akira Yasuda / 安田朗 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/990715955947814912 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/171144706993029120 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/1047378948869373953 https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/1047272459215372289 Alien Vs Predator / エイリアンVSプレデター (1994) Alien Warrior animated by Katsuya Akitomo / 秋友克也 https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/963966791897694210 https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1062743322400239617 One of the Predator was animated by Takashi Hayashi / 林 https://twitter.com/FUTATSU24/status/1003069691428925440

#From chara-design to graphic design: the artists behind Capcom's 2D fighting game characters

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caskit2 · 6 years

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2d headcanon thingy

I had this headcanon in my mind on 2d for a while now and im JUST now getting around to posting this! but here it is!!

=> 2-d has a seething dislike for watching Disney princess movies

=> he has never watched ANY Disney princess movie or any of the sequels and the rest of the gang are surprised at this. so when noodle heard of moana she wanted to go see it on the big screen and 2d was the only one that didn't want to go.

=> he always hated the "damsel in distress is actually lost princess or is only interesting if she is a cookie cutter generic love interest for a random prince." the gang tried to get him to sit down through snow white and 2d LOST HIS SHIT when the prince climbed over the wall and sings with snow white like " holy shit this stranger is nosy as fuck! and hello breaking into a castle?!! how bout knocking next time!?" and he got super mad when the queen ordered the huntsman to kill snow white like" GOSH bitch! here we go with the wicked queen being a total salty prick to snow all cause snow white got it all!?" but snow whites 'death scene' only made him tear up cause grumpy was crying. like " hey mudz if I die would you cry?"

=> noodle and russel try to tell him that most recent Disney princess movies are more relatable now. but no matter how hard the gang try, they cant get 2d to freakn sing along to the princess songs!! murdoc tried to get him to watch mulan with him and ace and 2d will only watch it for the animation " LoOK AT THE Hair swoosh@!!" he was really starting to dig it and dramatically gasped during the reveal of mulan as a women. *gasps and grabs murdoc* " holly moaly mudz can you believe it!!??" like his heart stopped when shane saw her bandaged chest! 2d was scared shitless when they left her in the snow.

=> He has seen every other Disney movie aside from the Disney princess movies which he tries to avoid like the plague. but they were finally able to get him to sit and finish a whole movie that had a princess in it. BRAVE was the one he watched all the way through. he actually liked the "rebellious phase" that merida had but he LOVED the mother daughter bond and how chill the dad was.

=> so far he has watched princess and the frog, Mulan, Moana , Aladdin and Brave. In the very beginning he had NO fav Disney princess, and yeah he still doesn't, but now he doesn't mind the Disney princess movies. Heck! he will even go back and watch ones like Cinderella, sleeping beauty, and snow white because of the music and title cards.

=> 2d and murdoc are OLD MEN so theres gotta be subtitles for them on screen

=> russel's fav Disney princess is Belle, noodles fav is Ariel, Ace like jasmine the best and murdocs fav is Cinderella and 2d hasn't found a fav yet.

#2d gorillaz #russel gorillaz #noodle gorillaz #murdoc gorillaz #ace gorillaz #gorillaz

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paulisweeabootrash · 6 years

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Series Review: Read or Die (R.O.D. the OVA)

Welcome to another episode of Paul is Weeaboo Trash! Today’s topic is a show I’ve previously seen one episode of, so long ago that I’m almost going in fresh: the OVA (what we in the US would call a “direct to video release”) of Read or Die (2001–2002)! I was lucky enough to grow up in a household where education and fun were not portrayed as opposites, and we had the means to find plenty of fun educational things to do. My parents searched for all kinds of potentially interesting activities, and living in southern New Hampshire, the Boston area was not prohibitively far to go for them. And so I was signed up for Splash, a program one weekend per fall in which MIT students teach middle- and high-school-age kids seminars on a wide variety of topics.

What counted as topics worthy of education was quite broad, however. I ended up in a "class" that consisted of watching one episode each of several anime that the student running the class was a fan of. This was back in the days where anime fandom spread person-to-person by recommendations and there was more emphasis on developing a background knowledge of "classics" among the more informed and/or snootier fans. (I still feel this way a bit because certain tropes and references are so common or influential that being familiar with the original sources can make newer shows suddenly make a lot more sense, but I disapprove of the gatekeeper tendency to look down on people who don't yet know the things "everyone knows".)

I don't remember how many shows we sampled there, but the two that made an impact were Hellsing, which in retrospect was at best questionable for the age of the audience, and was very much not my thing because I have a low tolerance for gore, and the topic of this post, Read or Die, which was very much the kind of thing I wanted to see: a nerd being a badass in a fantastical way. Especially since I was also really into James Bond at the time, so I was probably primed to eat up other media involving a British spy fighting a mysterious secret organization. Since I'm incredibly averse to media piracy and had no clue where to buy anime, though, I never followed up to finish watching it, and eventually it faded from my mind. Until I stumbled across the first volume of the manga for super-cheap at Saboten Con last year, and it flicked some nostalgia switch that reminded me how much I'd enjoyed it at the time, although I barely remember any actual details, so I am practically going in fresh here.

Read or Die follows Yomiko Readman, a teacher, obsessive book collector and reader, and superpowered secret agent who can manipulate paper in nearly any way. Any paper available, from money to ribbons to a briefcase full of blank looseleaf she apparently just brings with her. She uses this power in the course of her service as a secret agent, codename The Paper, working for the British Library?! Along with Miss Deep, who can selectively phase shift, and Drake Anderson, a gruff and dismissive military type (and apparently potter in his cover job), she is assigned to a plan to save the world in a way that vaguely involves collecting books. Saved from whom? The I-jin, clones of historical geniuses with superpowers related to their areas of expertise, such as... knowing stuff about insects, or... uh... spreading Buddhism to Japan... who are going to flashy and violent lengths to steal books the British Library is trying to acquire legitimately. Trust me, it eventually gets explained, and the Big Reveal, although pretty goddamn weird, fits in with the rest of what has been established. Suspend your disbelief enough to accept the I-jin at all, and it’s fine, although still a bit ludicrous.

And I submit that all that is still less weird and ridiculous than your typical superhero or spy movie, and this show does after all have elements of both genres in one. Or, well, more and more superhero and military action as it goes on. Although the theme music uses 60s guitar sounds, chromatic chord changes, and blaring brass hits that are virtually guaranteed to evoke the James Bond theme, and our main cast do work for a secret intelligence agency, they are in quite open military-style conflict with the I-jin -- with the approval of the UN -- and very little that’s actually covert occurs, with the notable exception of something I can’t spoil that happens at the end of ep. 2. And because of the superpower angle, some of the instances of weirdness are not flaws at all but pretty creative implementations of the characters’ powers (using a paper airplane as a lethal weapon?!).

This last point didn’t really fit in organically, but I'd also like to mention a couple of things about the art that I love but don't see often. The very first shot of the series uses multiple flat backgrounds at different distances moving in relation to each other to convey the camera moving across the scene, which I have seen in other animated works (at the moment, I can only think of examples from very old Disney movies off the top of my head), but not in recent ones. I don't know whether it's simply out-of-fashion or this is a result of the shift to CGI so animators figure "why would we do this when we can actually render a city with realistic perspective?" This show also has a particular kind of fluid motion in characters that I’ve seen in many reasonably-high-production-value shows from the 90s and 00s, but rarely in newer shows (Space Dandy being a notable exception). Maybe I'm watching the wrong recent shows, maybe it's just a stylistic choice that's out of fashion, maybe it's harder to pull off convincingly when you're not animating by hand.

I’m glad I finally got to watch this. It’s even better than I remember. Now to get to work on the rest of the manga and the other series. Oh yeah, haha. The abbreviation "R.O.D." stands for both "Read or Die" and "Read or Dream", which are different parts of the same larger series. The Read or Die manga (4 volumes), this OVA series, the Read or Dream manga (also 4 volumes), and a 26-episode TV series all take place in the same narrative universe, rather than the usual model of the anime being an adaptation/retelling of the manga. There is also a light novel series I know nothing about, but it sounds from the Wikipedia article like that is the single ongoing series that is the source for the two manga and two anime. (There is also apparently a barely-related future side story manga.)

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W/A/S: 1/3/3

Weeb: I don’t think there’s much, if anything, in here that would require explanation to a typical Western audience and which isn’t also explained in the dialogue.

Ass: There is a single implied nipple in the opening sequence. Gasp! And Miss Deep's costume design is pretty fanservicey, but only barely more explicitly so than you're likely to get in American media deemed suitable for older children.

Shit: Until the Big Reveal, it's just unclear why anyone involved other than Yomiko should be this interested in acquiring the specific books that serve as the show’s MacGuffin, nor is it clear that the I-jin’s plans extend further than searching for them in a very destructive way, leaving me baffled that the Library immediately makes the connection that the books are key to saving the world. There are a few minor errors in the subtitles and a visual glitch (Blu Ray remaster, please?), and a couple of places where faces just... don’t... look right. Oh, and if you’re watching the dubbed version, add another half point of Shit for Crispin Freeman’s British accent.

And for the first time I feel the need to add a CONTENT WARNING. Usually, I think the review is sufficient to give you the idea whether there is anything likely to be disturbing in a show, but this is different, because the first two episodes have the sort of over-the-top stylized combat you might expect from other action anime or Western superhero media, where even a death comes off as un-shocking. But in ep. 3 of this, there is a shocking pivot. There are several short instances of graphic and sudden violence of kinds that are quite a bit more disturbing and distressing (even when they involve the use of powers) than anything that occurred previously.

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Stray Observations:

- Yes, those of you who know a little Japanese caught that joke: "Yomiko" could be loosely translated as "read girl". Her name is "Read Girl Read Man". Because she likes to read. Get it? Ha! Ha! Ha!

- In the manga, Yomiko is also established to be a literal bibliophile. As in "books, regardless of content, turn her on". I'm kind of glad this is not a plot point in the anime.

- The “secret” operation in the last episode, which is conducted with UN approval and involves an actual military attack with an actual goddamn naval fleet (and collaborating with North Korea to keep the US too distracted to notice it, even though this is a British operation against an organization that literally burned down the White House in the first scene of the first episode) might actually beat the first few episodes of Full Metal Panic! for “worst undercover operation ever”.

#R.O.D.#Read or Die #anime review #weeaboo trash

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skeletonscribbles · 6 years

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Wishes - Ch. 2

she promises, she delivers. this is the Mike Hanlon chapter which means it is Blessed. I think I got everyone on this taglist but if I missed someone lmk I’m a little outta my head atm

Rating: M, eventually. G right now, except for cursing. Pairings: Reddie, Stan/Bill/Mike, Benverly WC: like 3k? idk math Summary:

you know what tumblr there was gonna be a summary here but since you keep fucking up my apostrophes ive decided you dont deserve it

Other: Martin Short is actually a blessing dont listen to Mike

Chapter 1 / Read on Ao3

Tag List: @roobarrtrashmouth @jem-carstairs-is-perfection @tozier-club @aizeninlefox @stanheartsbill @latinxrichie @softeds @pretzelstoday @melancholypurple @wheezygreens @ayyyymichele @loser-marsh

MIKE HANLON - KIDCOT STATION AT THE CANADA PAVILION, EPCOT CENTER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8TH 6:55 P.M.

There were two hours and five minutes until the Epcot fireworks show began, signalling the imminent close of the park, which meant there were three hours and five minutes until Mike Hanlon could finally clock out.

Not that he was counting, of course.

Sighing, he shifted in his seat at the Canada KidCot station. He’d been scheduled for an afternoon 8 hour shift, 11 to 7, but they’d asked for someone to extend because they were short-staffed and he apparently couldn’t help himself. He agreed to work until close, which was an extra three hours. Normally, he wouldn’t be phased by that, but he was bone tired today. He’d been up late with his Imagineer roommate, poring over plans and ideas for Star Wars.

He should have known better. No amount of arguing for Lando Calrissian or Finn was going to make Bob Iger, the CEO of the company, less racist, which meant that there was little to no hope for representation in the new Star Wars World. His roommate Ben had tried to warn him, but he’d pushed the issue anyway, feeling restless and irritated that he worked for a company that didn’t value people like him.

Now, he was paying the price. He stifled a yawn as a mother with two children hustled them by his table - he would kill for someone to actually talk to, but he wasn’t the type to hustle people over to him Gaston-style. (The Magic Kingdom Gaston was notorious for cat-calling girls, which Mike supposed was in character...but it was deeply unsettling to watch.)

Sighing, Mike picked up a marker and began to color one of the Duffy* drawings at his station. As bored as he was, he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Disney, for all its flaws, was more of a home for him than Canada had ever been, and KidCot was his favorite rotation. He loved telling stories and teaching kids about his home country - he loved teaching.

He loved Canada, too...it was his home, after all, but it had never been freeing for him like Florida had. Home came with expectations - from his peers, from his teachers, and most of all, from his parents.

Mike loved his parents, but he was definitely not the son they needed. He had no interest in hanging around and taking over the farm. His dreams were bigger than that.

His parents, for their part, had totally supported his move...at their own expense. He felt guilty about that sometimes, but he had a feeling that all three of them knew, in their hearts, that it was the right choice for Mike to go.

He’d come to Disney World because he hadn’t known where else to go. Disney had a work program for international students that promised to give him opportunities to connect with people around the world, and that promise had really appealed to 21 year-old Mike Hanlon. It had been the right choice, definitely - his first three months at Star Tours had been like a dream. He got to talk Star Wars all day, he got to choose Rebel Spies**, the ride wasn’t that complicated, and he hadn’t had to slog all the way around the perimeter of Hollywood Studios to get to his attraction like the Tower of Terror bellhops did. (There had to be a more efficient way of moving around backstage, and someday, Mike imagined they’d invent it, but for the time being, it was long walks and bikes over at Studios.) All in all, it had been a perfect fit for him.

Then, he had three months doing outdoor vending (ODV) at Studios, and that was...less exciting, to say the least. ODV was hot, sweaty work, and the guests that wanted popcorn or pretzels or light-up Mickey ears were usually tired, hungry, and cranky (and sometimes racist). Still, that was manageable, especially when he got into the groove of Fantasmic shifts. In fact, he still picked up Fantasmic shifts from time to time, for nostalgia’s sake.

After that, his program was over, but he didn’t feel ready to do something else, so he went to Casting to see about applying for a more regular job (and what he would have to do to renew his US work visa). The only full-time position they had to offer him was in the Canada Pavilion, so that’s where he was for the time being. It wasn’t ideal (he was putting in to transfer back to attractions as soon as he was able), but he’d gotten that temporary worker visa for it, so he had no choice but to make it work. So far, the only thing that had been completely ruined for him was Martin Short movies, because after watching the Martin Short ‘O Canada’ film a thousand and twelve times per work shift, he’d sooner die than watch Three Amigos ever again in his life. (He considered himself extremely lucky to have found the roommate that he did via the CM Housing Facebook page, but if Ben put on Father of the Bride one more time, Mike was going to kick him out immediately and permanently.)

Mike finished coloring his Duffy and looked around. There were no kids anywhere in sight. It was around dinner time, and the Canada pavilion wasn’t a highly popular family destination to begin with, so Mike was going to be alone for a long while, people-watching as young hipster couples walked by with Disney shopping bags full of maple syrup and plaid clothes.

He was so zoned out, he almost missed the two attractive men that were walking out of a shop and towards him.

Now, Mike had spent quite a bit of time coming to terms with his sexual identity. His father extremely traditional - which was not to say close-minded, but there was just no opportunity for exploration on the farm. It wouldn’t have made sense.

Disney was on the extreme opposite end of that spectrum. A huge percentage of male Cast Members were gay, and for the first time, Mike had the opportunity to consider his own feelings.

As it turned out, he was pretty equally interested in men and women. He’d had a couple of short relationships during his time in the States with people of both genders, and they’d all been pretty nice...just, not lasting, and none of the people he had dated had been as compelling as the two men - a redhead and a boy with light brown curls, he could see now - that were walking his way.

It was a bit disconcerting, actually. Mike usually wasn’t attracted to white people (they were so entitled and pasty), but there was something almost cosmic about these two. It felt like the universe calling.

Before they got close enough to see him, Light Brown Curls stopped and turned to the redhead, holding up a Disney bag and smirking. The redhead blushed and grabbed for the bag, but Curls swiftly moved it behind his back. They began to engage in a game of keep-away. Mike was mesmerized.

“You trying to stamp their passports?” Mike jumped at the sound of a leering female voice, and almost fell out of his chair. “If you know what I mean?”

“Ma’am, I---” he began, turning to look at the perpetrator and stopping short when he saw her pretty green eyes. “Huh?”

She laughed prettily. “The ginger making an idiot of himself is named Bill. He works Guest Relations over at MK, and he’s been super hung up on these two guys he saw in passing in the Boardwalk slash Epcot area recently. Classic pining gay.”

Mike looked back over at the two men. The ginger (Bill) had retrieved his bag, and was waving it in front of Curls’ face. Curls seemed unimpressed.

“Is the skinny brunette boy one of the guys Bill was pining over?” Mike guessed, watching the bounce of the haughty man’s curls.

“Yep,” said the girl, joining Mike in looking over. “His name’s Stan, apparently. He’s a front desk coordinator over at Yacht, because of course he is. Everyone at Yacht is so fucking put together. Pardon my French.”

“It’s a relief to hear cursing every once in a while,” Mike admitted. “It can’t be princesses and rainbows all the time.”

The girl nodded appreciatively. “I like your style. I’m Beverly. I work in costuming over at MK.”

“Oh, word.” Mike stuck out a hand for her to shake. She took it, and he was immediately impressed by the subtle strength in her grip. “I’m Mike. You wanna learn about Canada?”

“At some point,” Beverly said, smiling amusedly. “Right now, though, I’m trying to play matchmaker.”

Mike squinted at her, confused. “Aren’t your friends already together, though? I thought you were just third-wheeling.”

“Fourth-wheeling, if all goes to plan.” Beverly waggled her eyebrows. “Weren’t you wondering who else Bill has a crush on around here? I did say that he was pining over two guys.”

Mike’s stomach lurched. Pretty boys weren’t generally in the business of looking Mike Hanlon’s way...unless he was reading the whole thing wrong?

“No, but there’s already...they’re already….” Mike protested weakly, hoping his assumptions were correct. “I couldn’t intrude.”

Beverly shrugged her freckled shoulders, looking down nonchalantly. “Two’s an arbitrary number, bud. You can do whatever you want.”

The boys’ eyes were on Mike, now - they must have noticed him talking to their friend. The redhead was smiling, and Mike suddenly felt hot.

Being with more than one person at a time had never occurred to Mike, but now that the idea had been planted, it was taking root in a really fast and embarrassing way.

“Bill, Stan,” Beverly called, beaming, “meet my new friend Mike. He’s from Canada.”

Feeling a little stupid, Mike gestured to his nametag. “Saskatchewan.”

“Mike from Saskatchewan.” Stan stepped forward, confident and smooth. “Very, very nice to meet you.”

Bill smiled knowingly. “Told you, didn’t I?”

“You were right,” Stan said, eyes never leaving Mike.

Mike looked between the two, hoping for an explanation, and Bill promptly provided him with one. “I saw you here the other day, talking to kids. You’ve got incredible charisma.”

Mike was painfully cognizant of the blood rushing to his cheeks. “Thanks. Uh. Bev says you guys are CMs, too?”

“Yep!” Bill tapped his chest where his name tag would be if he were in costume. “I’m in the Magic Kingdom, and Stan’s your neighbor over at the Yacht Club.”

“It’s a shame you don’t have any guests,” said Stan, examining the Duffy coloring pages at Mike’s table. “I don’t know why people aren’t flocking to you, honestly. You seem like the kind of person that I’d actually enjoy learning about Canada from.”

“Do you wanna hear some facts?” Mike asked, and then immediately cringed. Why couldn’t he say something compelling for once?

Fortunately, Bill and Stan seemed to find it endearing rather than weird. Stan opened his mouth to speak again…

...and was immediately interrupted by a freckly, frizzy-haired tornado of a human being, who swept in and slung his absurdly long arms over Bill and Stan’s shoulders. Mike blinked rapidly, trying to take stock of the situation, but before he could get his bearings, the new person adjusted his glasses and started speaking in a thick Russian accent.

“Eet eez veddy hahd, Comrade, for me to trahhck you eef you do not answer calls, da?” He was talking to Stan, but Bill seemed to recognize him, too, if his eye roll was any indication.

“Why the fuck did you need to find me at all?” Stan groaned. It was obvious that he was fond of this weird, lanky guy, but he was playing at irritation. “I turned off my phone for a reason, you nerd. Take a hint.”

“Eh, I was bored. Also kinda sad, thanks to Big Bill here.” The guy abruptly stopped with the accent, turned to Bill, and tutted loudly. “Can you believe that Bill stood in the way of true love today? Also, how the hell do you know Bill, Stanny?”

“We’ve literally just met,” Stan said, “and preventing you from feeling love is only serving to make him more attractive to me, so by all means, Bill, continue.”

“It’s not up to me,” Bill said sadly, “and tragically, Eddie does think he’s hot.”

The third guy inhaled sharply. “Hold on, say that last bit again.”

“Mike, this is Richie.” Bill ignored Richie’s request and turned to Mike. “He’s bad, sorry.”

Richie’s eyes flicked up to Mike for the first time. Mike sat awkwardly as Richie took him in, smiled, and said, “A fucking pleasure. Has anyone ever told you that red’s your color?”

“Just you,” Mike replied honestly.

“Glad I could be your first.” Richie winked, and Mike felt charmed in spite of himself.

“Okay, so how do we all know each other again?” Bev asked, frowning. “I know Rich because he’s a giant pain in my ass when he comes through costuming, I know Bill because I know Bill, and now I know Stan and Mike through Bill…”

“Richie’s my roommate,” Stan said flatly. “Unfortunately.”

Bill whipped around to stare accusingly at Richie. “You’ve been keeping that from me?”

“Hey, I didn’t know you were into stuck-up assholes,” Richie shrugged. “Besides, that’s justice in action for not giving Cute Character Attendant Eddie my number.”

“He was working,” Bill said defensively.

“He was working,” Richie parroted mockingly. “That’s never stopped me from hitting on him before, and it won’t stop me again.”

“I wouldn't,” Bill warned. “Eddie’s no joke.”

“Didn’t say he was,” Richie agreed, bouncing excitedly. “Did he actually say I was hot, though, because--”

“Where do you work, Richie?” Mike asked, trying to save Bill from the conversation.

Richie’s smile was huge and sweet. “The World Famous Jungle Cruise, of course! Why, you itchin’ to ride my bote?” His expression turned suggestive. “Because I’d let you. It’d be worth the long, painful death Stan and Bill would put me through--”

“Beep beep, Richie,” Bill said loudly, elbowing Richie hard in the gut. Richie doubled over on to the damp wood of the pavilion floor.

Stan quirked an eyebrow, obviously impressed. “Beep beep, huh? I’ll have to remember that for next time.” He brushed Bill’s arm with his hand as he said it, and the corner of Bill’s mouth twitched up. Mike was enamoured by the interaction, and wanted more than anything to be on the other side of the table, included in whatever it was they had going on…

...fuck, he was so fucking fucked.

“Richie, if you’re not here for any real reason, then you should come with me,” said Beverly, looking like she was already regretting her offer. “I was gonna ditch these three in a couple of minutes, anyway. Let ‘em have a Food and Wine date, or something.”

“You’re sweet, Bevvy.” Richie gave her a sappy look as he peeled himself off of the floor. “Askin’ me out. Adorable. Unfortunately, I’m gonna have to pass, because Bill, I’m not going anywhere until you promise to get me Cute Eddie’s number.”

“You’re really dedicated to that, huh?” Bill asked, tone halfway between ‘impressed’ and ‘alarmed’. “What the hell happened between you two to make you so frigging obsessed, Rich? Normally you’re all jokes and no follow-through.”

Richie tried to be nonchalant, but Mike could see a bit of red creeping up his neck under the collar of his shitty Toy Story t-shirt. He was silent for a moment, and then when he spoke, his voice was soft. “He’s just...I don’t….he’s all the stuff I like, you know?”

Mike looked at Bill, whose forehead was scrunched up in obvious concern at Richie’s words, and then at Stan, who had his hands delicately on his hips and was trying and failing to not seem affected, and understood that he, Mike Hanlon, knew exactly what Richie was talking about.

“Let’s talk more about this later,” Bill finally suggested after a long moment. “Okay?”

Richie nodded quietly. Something had happened in the last few minutes...it was like someone had toggled the Richie off-switch. Mike hoped it wasn’t something he had said. “Roger that, Billiam.”

“Hey,” Mike said, feeling suddenly bold in the wake of Richie’s vulnerability. “Listen. I can’t hang with you all now, because I won’t be off of work until 22:00. If you guys are free and still awake at that point, though, y’all can come to my place after I’m done. I can write down an address. I bet my roommate won’t mind.”

Bill’s responding smile could have lit up the whole park. “I’d love that.”

“Me too,” Stan said immediately, looking between Bill and Mike with a soft expression (well, soft for Stan the consummate professional, anyway).

“You want us there, too?” Richie asked cautiously.

Mike nodded, and was relieved to note that Stan and Bill were nodding too. “Dude, I could really use some friends. I’m fresh out of those.”

With that, the tension was broken. Richie let out a great howling laugh, and moved over to clap Mike on the back. “Oh, Mikey! You just hit the friend jackpot, my man. Just ask Stanley Uris! Richie Tozier’s a top notch amigo.”

Stan shrugged listlessly. “I mean, if you like people that try to give you sloppy handies every time they’re intoxicated.”

Richie’s expression twisted up, and for a split second, Mike thought he was gonna lose it, but then instead of yelling, Richie groaned. “They’re not sloppy, Stanley, Jesus Christ.”

“Jesus who?” Stan asked, reaching out to yank on Richie’s sleeve, which presumably was meant to signal that he was kidding. “Anyways, yes, the three of us will be there, Mike. Bev?”

“That depends,” she said slyly. “Is your roomie hot, Mikey?”

Mike couldn’t help but laugh at that. Ben was an objectively handsome man, but he was less sexy than he was warm and comforting. “He’s a beautiful, wonderful guy, Beverly.”

“Then of course,” she agreed, laughing her little laugh again. “Write your address on the back of one of these Duffys, yeah?”

Mike obliged her, and when he was done, Stan took the paper and folded it up neatly, ultimately placing it in the breast pocket of his shirt.

“All right,” Richie announced. “Parting is such sweet sorrow, Micycle, but we must go purchase overpriced cocktails now. Adieu.”

“Bye!” Bev called, and almost immediately, the two of them were off, merrily making their way to the main World Showcase walkway.

Stan and Bill lingered for another moment. They were both looking at Mike with expressions that made Mike feel like his stomach was going to explode with butterflies. He didn’t know what it was about these two that made him feel all of 17 again, but he wasn’t complaining. He hadn’t been this excited about romance since middle school.

“We’ll see you later, okay?” Stan said assuringly. He slid his hand into Bill’s after he spoke, and Mike watched their fingers entwine. Absurdly, he wasn’t jealous at all...any interaction at all between the three of them felt right and good.

“Have a nice couple of hours,” Mike said, trying to convey the giddiness he was feeling through his words. “Enjoy the fireworks!”

“It’ll be nicer when we’re all together,” Bill said meaningfully, and then he and Stan were disappearing into the throng, too.

It looked like it was going to be another late night for Mike Hanlon...but somehow, he didn’t think he was going to regret this one tomorrow.

One hour and three minutes until park close, two hours and three minutes until clock-out.

Notes:

we don't deserve Mike Hanlon

*Duffy is Mickey's teddy bear, apparently. He's very popular in Japan. You used to be able to go to a Duffy meet and greet in Epcot, which is fucking wild.

**There's a moment in the Star Tours ride where one guest on that particular simulator is identified as a "Rebel Spy". The cast members get to pick that guest. I have never been that guest, and I will be bitter about that until my dying day.

#reddie #reddie fanfic #mike hanlon/stanley uris/bill denbrough #mike/stan/bill #mike hanlon #bill denbrough #stanley uris #benverly #ben hanscom #beverly marsh #losers club #it 2017 #stephen king's it #disney au #mike hanlon is a good man

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