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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?