Feedback concerning the similarities between V-Tuber avatars and Fireplace Emblem Engage characters expressed on social media will not be solely unwarranted. Mika Pikazo, finest identified for creating V-Tuber characters Kaguya Luna and Hakos Baelz, is definitely Fireplace Emblem Interact’s lead character designer.
Pikazo’s involvement with Fireplace Emblem was introduced in September 2022 with a tweet studying, “I designed the characters for the Nintendo’s new FE title “Fireplace Emblem Interact.” Please sit up for the sport!” together with gorgeous paintings of the female and male variants of the participant character, Alear.
From January 6, 2023, till Fireplace Emblem Interact’s launch, Pikazo shared attractive paintings of varied characters she designed and illustrated each day till the sport’s launch. Since her preliminary announcement, she has enthusiastically retweeted numerous items of fanart from different Twitter customers of the characters she crafted.
In an interview on Nintendo’s web site, Clever Methods director Tsutomo Tei claimed that the workforce was in search of “an artist whose design model would attraction to a broad viewers.” He described Mika Pikazo’s drawings as “Colourful,” “vivid,” and “an ideal match for the flashy path [they] needed for [Fire Emblem Engage].” The choice to rent Pikazo was reportedly unanimous, with the complete workforce enamored by Pikao’s paintings.
The primary characters Pikazo designed for the workforce had been Alear and Céline, with Alear’s distinctive blue and pink coloration scheme current from the start. Tei claims that Pikazo has been a Fireplace Emblem fan for a while and conceptualized Alear, Clanne, and Framme‘s coloration themes primarily based on thematic selections from previous titles.
Clever Methods producer Masahiro Higuchi claims that Yunaka significantly caught his consideration, stating that “her character and the way in which she talks is nothing just like the characters we had earlier than.” Whereas he was cautious at first, Higuchi warmed as much as the character, describing her as “considered one of his favorites.”
Previous to her work on Fireplace Emblem Interact, Pikazo was arguably identified finest for the design of Hakos Baelz, an English-speaking V-Tuber related to the digital expertise company hololive. Pikazo has additionally illustrated quite a lot of manga and light-weight novels, in addition to characters in Destiny/Grand Order.
Fireplace Emblem will not be the one Nintendo franchise Pikazo has labored on, additionally offering paintings for Petilil and Volcarona within the Evolving Skies and Chilling Reign Pokémon card units, respectively.
Mika Pikazo‘s work will be discovered on her Twitter, Pixiv, and official web site. Fireplace Emblem Interact is offered to play now, completely on Nintendo Swap.
– This text was up to date on January twenty fourth, 2023