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DiscussionTIL that a woman who goes by the pseudonym Kinu Nishimura has been part of Capcom's main art team since the 1990s. Nishimura has done character design and illustration for the Street Fighter series among many others.
Source: https://capcom.fandom.com/wiki/Kinu_Nishimura
Nishimura claims that the art she is most of proud of is her work on Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara. This is notable (at least to me) because that game is the direct inspiration for the Vanillaware's Dragon's Crown. I didn't know that Nishimura had indirect influence over that game, either.
Like I asked when I discovered that the Japanese game company Koei was co-founded by a woman, why did it take this long to learn about this very accomplished woman? Granted, Nishimura with her pseudonym seems like a very private person who may not want the attention, and I don't follow fighting games much, so this seems easier to slip by without notice than the Koei discovery did. But still, you'd think this would be more widely known in the gaming community, especially after 10+ years of "women in gaming" articles and podcasts. What did they spend those ten years talking about?
V cool. I wonder if any particular characters were exclusively Her work.
I rlly want to know the backstory behind "Her blood type is A", but, at the same time, maybe I don't •______•
It's a Japanese horoscope thing, nothing nefarious. They're big on the belief that blood type affects personality.
Ahh thanks, I didn't know that. Does the +/– factor count too?
Not that I've seen. Most Japanese people are Rh positive, so general blood type theory just assumes you are also Rh positive. But yeah, they treat blood type the same way we treat astrological signs.
That's wild... I guess I just reflexively stereotype those types (👀) of belief systems as dating back centuries, if not millennia. But ABO blood types were discovered in the twentieth century
You know, I'm not certain! A quick google search doesn't indicate that it does, but I don't know the finer details.