Anime Monkey wrote:The only character design that I've gone "wut?" at is Smith's. When I look at it, I think Piros the 3rd with a Robocop head.
It makes sense though. Piroshi's body was part of the game, but his head was made out of his Glorious Custom Mighty One-Of-A-Kind Aftermarket Power-Steering Lovely Challenging Transcontinental Perfect Beautiful Graphics.
Gemcrim wrote:Shamrock's forehead is HUGE. It's reminding me of several characters with huge forehead but what's sticking out most in my mind is
Yai from MMBN.
It's only a handeko. If she went full deko we'd all be doomed.
TheSorrow wrote:Sakuya, Mary and Tobias, plus Hermit though IMO he doesn't count? Yeah, that's "alot", considering i'm also referring to all the PCs you can see in the market D: Most, if not all of them, look lke R:2 PCs, such like Flamberge, girl-with-blue-kimono (forgot her name XD), and a hat-less purple Syake, among others...looks more like the trio of main characters are the exception of them all.
For any non-returning character an R:2 look makes sense since R:X uses the same class system, though some of them still look R:1-ish to me. But why wouldn't you count Hermit, who's clearly based on Mia? Anyway, four out of the ten actual returning characters we've seen are R:1 characters. Making any assumptions that it'll be mostly R:2 at this point is like tossing a coin four times, getting tails once, and being like "IT'LL USUALLY BE HEADS." It's possible there's some underlying scheme like Yata Mirror being based on Haseo's group, but we really won't know for a while...
_Tri-edge_ wrote:So why exactly do some of these characters have common American names, in a Japanese OVA?
I think this is actually more of a real pattern at this point than the R:2 thing, and I don't know. Globalization? Even Sakuya's name is in katakana. Aside from Hermit and Shamrock probably, everyone is using a real name name too (not necessarily
their name, but still a real name, something your kid wouldn't get beat up for if you named them). While everything else has changed, character naming in The World has been a pretty consistent mixture until now, so I wonder if they'll explain it... I mean, we haven't seen a naming scheme that looked like this since, well, AIDA.