Imitation West (Japanese Character Art with Western Sensibilities)

[villain]

Video games with Japanese art that incorporates Western sensibilities.

Katsuya Terada

(See also his Legend of Zelda art, and I believe he also did the FFIV Nintendo Power art)

BUSIN: Wizardry Series

ZOKU: The Legend of Bishin

Jake Hunter/Detective Saburou Jinguuji Series

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Jun Suemi

Rengoku

Nosferatu

Renny Blaster

The Hybrid Front

First Queen IV

Brandish 2 Renewal

Asuncia

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Megami Tensei Franchise [1987 ~ 1996] (Kazuma Kaneko)
Kaneko’s style had a bit of an American comic book vibe to it, but his style gradually started going towards Kouji Ogata (Boogiepop) in the late 90s and early 00s.

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Akihiro Yamada

Castlevania: Dracula X

Wizardry I・II/III・IV

Front Mission 3

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Comix Zone (Japanese) (?)

Rent A Hero (?)

Metal Stoker (Hiroki Nafuyu)

Batman Returns (Japanese) (Mari Sato?)

Surprise Attack (?)

Panzer Dragoon Orta (Kohichiro Tamura?)

Panzer Dragoon Saga (Katsumi Yokota)

[villain]

Sorry this is a bit messy. I’ve been trying to do this thread for a while, but kept giving up.

[aggie]

hey it’s perfect and this is just exactly my shit

[janitor]

BUSIN/“Tales of the Forsaken Land” has a lot of really cool stuff going on aesthetically but it is such a chore to play

reminds me that BUSIN 0 was on my list of to play/translate at one point and I should put it back on there because it’s such an improvement over the original

[janitor]

on that note i’d like to nominate my dimguil thread

https://selectbutton.net/t/the-bizarre-bestiary-of-dimguil/1797

[villain]

Those monsters are rad. I want the Greater Golem to be my Persona.

And this guy.

[villain]

Linda³ (Tatsuyuki Tanaka/Cannabis)
Might be grasping with this one, but I love Cannabis’ work.

[The_Blueberry_Hill]

[dementia]

Assault Suit Leynos 2 has a 90s western comic aesthetic

[creep]

sooooooo…ayami kojima or not?
I’m not really sure what Western sensibilities includes and excludes…

@villain

Surprise Attack (?)

The answer to this apparently turned up recently:

Lost Levels :: View topic - Hideaki Kodama (Konami illustrator)

Video Games Densetsu: According to a series of auctions, Hideaki Kodama...

[Jakten]

I feel like Susumu Matsushita fits this:

Adventure Island

Maximo

Motortoon Grandprix

Willy Wombat

Down the World

Shadows of the TUSK

Benimaru Itoh as well but I don’t think he has designed any characters for any games just done additional art.

[villain]

Live-A-Live (Ryouji Minagawa)