Update: looks like it is from Pocket Power (dn710203.ca.archive.org/0/items/Retr...) — see p. 35. Also spotted this cool Katsuya Terada drawing for an Iron Sword ad a couple pages prior, too.

I....don't remember! I thought I grabbed it from your Tumblr page, but if you don't have it on there, maybe I grabbed it somewhere else? I might've been searching for "Shuji Imai" on DuckDuckGo and it came up on the image results, or maybe a Twitter search. I don't know the original source either.

Those old sites/accounts were what I immediately thought of when I built my site, decided I wanted to do some writing on it, and wondered what I wanted to write about.

...Which I haven't done in almost 2 years because my site's backend is busted and I'm (slowly!) rebuilding it from scratch! 😅

Not everything was a long and/or contemplative/thought-provoking essay, but there was usually neat stuff you'd gleam from their posts, whether it was art advice, reminiscing on old work, or name-dropping an artist, piece of media, or an art tool you'd never heard of before.

I think it was the eyes and hairstyle reminding me of Solid Snake in the Snake's Revenge ad that got me wondering. 😄

Good points! I was thinking back to that Snake's Revenge ad when I wrote that post, but I went by memory instead of pulling it up from my Imai folder. Now that I've pulled it up, even his more realistically-drawn characters still look pretty rounded in the facial features than that RCR illo.

I'm flipping through that issue of NP you linked to on your latest Tumblr post with Imai's Double Dragon II artwork, and I spotted this in the River City Ransom section (archive.org/details/Nint...). Wasn't sure if this was Imai too — not much hatching or stippling, but the facial features...

Didn't know that, thanks! I *might* have the MAME ROM but I haven't played it since I'm having issues with many ROMs not working due to missing files, so I need to sort that out when I have the patience for it.

Ahh, gotcha.

Thanks. Was hoping framerate wouldn't be one difference but I guess I'm not surprised, even though it's a 30 year old game at this point.

Was surprised to see different versions for Switches 1 and 2. Any idea what the differences are? I've only started to search around online for any info, but so far I've found nothing.

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In the same vein as "apply for that job you feel unqualified for", should I take this as a cue to put my amateur hat into the ring?

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Not saying both things can't be true, but reactions I'm seeing to this seem to be a lot of people projecting confirmation bias on Kojima as an artist/auteur, when the composer seems, to me, to be talking about the game as a piece of entertainment, not so much an artistic statement.

Same goes for describing the animation as something other than fluid, but that's a problem with discussing all forms of animation too.

Oh, it's nothing major, I was just looking up the character for pronunciation to see if I could understand the joke. My script knowledge is next to nil as well, other than *visually* recognizing some characters from studying a little Japanese, which doesn't really help. 😅

Thanks for clarifying! 😄