Still not Sophie.

Alright, it's FINALLY time for the fourth (and final) character designer interview from the Tales of Berseria Illustrations book. This time it's Minoru Iwamoto, who designed Eizen (hot, we stan) and Laphicet (cute, we stan). He was also the art director of the game itself, so he was very important to how Berseria's art turned out generally. He's the one who insisted to Inomata that it was fine for Velvet to have underboob. Maybe she would have gotten scared and not done it if it weren't for him, just kidding knowing her she'd probably have tried it anyway.

Also this is certainly not the last thing I'll be translating from this book, it's just the last of the interviews. There's still one last section that actually is pretty long that goes more in-depth into the details of each character's design, so that'll be fun whenever I get to it. I'll have to apologize so profusely for my likely-incorrect terminology because I never actually played Berseria or Zestiria in English. Anyway, back to Iwamoto. This guy talks about character design a lot in terms of childbirth so forgive me for any phrasing that seems odd in that respect. As far as I'm concerned it was a little odd in Japanese (though I get the logic of using those words) so it should be a little odd in English. Anyway LET'S GOOOO. ( Read more... )