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"when Tezuka-san asked Marvel about adding Shuma-Gorath, they famously replied with & #39;...who?& #39;
this video goes into (exhaustive) detail about the background of this obscure character https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35150219https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3... class="Emoji" style="height:16px;" src=" https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŻđ”" title="Flagge von Japan" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Japan">" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322207880016134144">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
this video goes into (exhaustive) detail about the background of this obscure character https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35150219
"bc Shuma-Gorath was thought to have no commercial value, we were able to give him any ol weird moves, without receiving a single correction
his EN dialog has a tone befitting a chaos god but in JP he ends his lines with & #39;deshu& #39; so ppl were like, & #39;kawaii& #39;" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322209582605692928">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
his EN dialog has a tone befitting a chaos god but in JP he ends his lines with & #39;deshu& #39; so ppl were like, & #39;kawaii& #39;" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322209582605692928">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"in Shuma-Gorath& #39;s Marvel Super Heroes ending, he lived up to his status as a god of chaos and destruction by using the power of the Infinity Gems to destroy and reshape the universe" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322210399761039360">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"ppl sometimes ask why Thor wasn& #39;t in MSH, & there are 2 reasons: firstly, his abilities are the same as Storm& #39;s & she was by far the more popular character at the timeâsure, Thor& #39;s vastly more powerful, but charas that powerful are hard to adapt for games" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322214804593889280">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"secondly,& #39;90s-era comics Thor was all over the placeâthe Infinity Gauntlet comic& #39;s Thor, on which MSH is based, has the traditional look but is a human who inherited Thor& #39;s power, not the real deal, & the actual real Thor had a new, unrecognisable costume" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322215898875260929">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"in the end, Thor only showed up as an assist character in 1998& #39;s Marvel vs. Capcomâin this instance, we used his traditional costume so that he& #39;d be easily recognisable to players
Thor became a player-chara from 2011& #39;s MvC3 onwards, but I wasn& #39;t involved" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322220956757053446">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
Thor became a player-chara from 2011& #39;s MvC3 onwards, but I wasn& #39;t involved" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322220956757053446">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Capcom& #39;s X-Men: Children of the Atom & Marvel Super Heroes were both games borne from a ton of time, effort, money & passion, but sadly, they didn& #39;t really make waves in Japan
I think the tide started to turn with X-Men vs. Street Fighter in 1996" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322223042265714688">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
I think the tide started to turn with X-Men vs. Street Fighter in 1996" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322223042265714688">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"the basic system was taken from the Marvel series, with the inclusion of characters from the Street Fighter Alpha series, whose moves had been enhanced to the level of Marvel& #39;s stable; crossovers weren& #39;t common in Japan back then, so it was well received" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322223042265714688">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"on the X-Men side, we added Gambit & Rouge, who were popular in the comics & major characters in the cartoon, as well as Wolverine& #39;s rival Sabertooth; as you& #39;d expect, the inclusion of such stylish men & women really brought the hype" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322227444393275403">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"furthermore, the inclusion of Cammy, the popular Super SFII character who was re-appearing with a new look, had a big impact; COTA & MSH may not have reached many ppl, but I think a lot of JP players became familiar with Marvel charas via the Vs. series" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322227444393275403">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"XvSF& #39;s success can be attributed to the staff throwing their all into giving the game a celebratory all-star atmosphereâfor example, I wrote/supervised the COTA/MSH endings but for XvSF, I left it entirely to the team bc I trusted their love of Marvel" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322242526082867200">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"the character depictions seen in Capcom& #39;s Marvel games have been adopted back into the source material, with one example being Sentinel: the Marvel design was akin to a giant android, but Capcom& #39;s version was more mechanical with lots of transformations" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322242526082867200">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Marvel& #39;s copyright officer was furious at our Sentinel & director Nishitani even had to fly to their New York HQ to apologise
otoh, Marvel& #39;s artists liked it, & nowadays you& #39;ll see a lot of Sentinel art that blends his humanoid look with mecha elements" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322267270362484736">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
otoh, Marvel& #39;s artists liked it, & nowadays you& #39;ll see a lot of Sentinel art that blends his humanoid look with mecha elements" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322267270362484736">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
(I can& #39;t dig up a link atm but this is something Nishitani& #39;s also talked about recently: basically, Marvel hated everything about Capcom& #39;s Sentinelâthe colors, the moves, the "anime robot nonsense", even just the idea of shrinking it down to fighting-game-friendly size)
"Ed McGuinness is one well-known comic artist who has publicly acknowledged Capcom& #39;s art style as an influence... sure enough, I can see similarities in his work with that of Akiman & Bengus, particularly in the way he draws hands" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322425917906407424">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"this is a t-shirt bearing one of SHOEI& #39;s collages, made in 1995 as a promo item for Marvel Super Heroes & printed in grey/white on a black background. I own a lot of American comic shirts but this one has to be the coolest" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322428306919051264">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Tomita-kun, who worked as a sub-planner on COTA & MSH, was the director on XvSF & MSHvSF; he went on to make the very successful Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon & the unsung masterpiece Gotcha Force...did he do the entire Vs. series...?" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322431390177128448">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Atsushi Tomita also went by & #39;Tomichin(ăăăăł)& #39;,& #39;Tomi-chin(ăăăŒæ)& #39;, etcâ & #39;æ& #39; came from a plan to have Thanos refer to himself with that royal pronoun in his MSH victory screen, but it came across as incomprehensible so we scrapped that idea (1/2)" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322449195601518592">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Tomichin and I appeared together in Capcom Secret File no.13 (& #39;Versus Magazine& #39;), clowning around with a bunch of really silly dialog; IIRC most of the text was written by SHOEI (2/2) " https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322449195601518592">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
(related: Tomichin& #39;s parody character was jokingly inserted into Marvel vs. Capcom during dev but erased from the final product; gfx data still remained in the ROM & the man himself recently commented on them https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1288718418992959488)">https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/...
"starting in & #39;96 with 19XX, Capcom produced & #39;Secret File& #39; booklets for their arcade games that were given freely to arcade operators to give away or distribute as prizes; the two Marvel-related issues were #13/ #14 but I forget why XvSF came out after MvSF" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322450480732106754">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"I& #39;m sure people are going to ask to see it, so I& #39;m uploading pics of all the pages of Capcom Secret File #13 (Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter); I don& #39;t have a scanner, so excuse my snapping these pics with a digital camera" (part 1) https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322456761220001793">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Capcom Secret File #13 (MSH vs. SF) pages, part 2: Tomichin got away with being depicted as that Sesame Street-esque chara but they used a ton of real photos of me, including half-naked ones, but if it& #39;d amuse ppl even slightly, I thought it was worth it" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322459062387138568">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Capcom Secret File #14 (X-Men vs. Street Fighter) pages, pt.1: I advised on how to give the cover that authentic American comic look, such as adding that bombastic Stan Lee-esque & #39;AT LAST! quote box" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322459751951728640">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Capcom Secret File #14 (X-Men vs. Street Fighter) pages, pt.2: although these were just 12 pages long including the cover, the contents were truly luxuriousâofficial & new art from the developers, one-offs from the masterful design staff, etc" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322461854187220992">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"I& #39;m adding pages from the one other Marvel-related book, Capcom Secret File #18 (Marvel vs. Capcom): these Secret Files were a great way for the staff to express themselves & blow off steam, but with the contraction of the arcade market, they ended at #26" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322465204655980544">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
(aside from the 26 standard Capcom Secret Files, there& #39;s a regular & DX Secret File for Cyberbots, a Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Secret File produced in 2010 and a Street Fighter V: Champion Edition Secret File produced this year
Cyberbots DX has a pop-up diorama starring Z-Gouki iirc)
Cyberbots DX has a pop-up diorama starring Z-Gouki iirc)
"Capcom Secret File #18 (Marvel vs. Capcom) pages, pt.2: due to copyright, most of the book& #39;s Marvel-related material is images or text directly from the game, but here & there are things like CapCom& #39;s Venom costume, & #39;Merican Man/Doku Man/Spider Man, etc" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322466435503845377">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"the Vs. Series& #39; titlesâX-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, etcâalways put Marvel first & Capcom second: in recognition of their long legacy as a publisher, we treated them as the defending champs & positioned ourselves as the challenger" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322467400739033088">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"one of the influences & #39;90s Capcom had on the US comics industry can be seen with UDON Entertainmentâthey produce US comic adaptations of JP games, including Capcom& #39;s, & translate/publish manga; if these books ever come to Japan, I& #39;d love to translate them" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322484833365356544">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"a Capcom Secret File dealer location sticker; we left it to individual operators to decide how to distribute Files to players. the ladies on the bottom-right are the & #39;Secret Gals& #39;, a fictitious team of female Capcom employees who purportedly edit the File" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322486623582392320">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"I joined Capcom as an artistâdrawing was a hobby but as I began drawing constantly for work, I realised I had a chronic issue w trembling fingers that forced me to tense up as I drew which, over time, wore on my muscles & joints until I couldn& #39;t handle it" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1321771950394413059">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"as you may have noticed from the Secret File, I was credited as & #39;Shaky Akitomo& #39;, a pen name I used around that time; that nickname was given to me by Yoshiki Okamoto-san when he noticed my hands were trembling" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322490914648985600">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"back on topic: ultimately, MSHvSF& #39;s most impactful character was Norimaroâhe& #39;s a character created by Noritake & #39;Noritaro& #39; Kinashi with the TV show Tunnels no Namade Daradara Ikasete, and Okamoto-san thought he was mind-bogglingly uncool, but..." https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322492765775687680">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Akiman heaped praise on Norimaro: he thought his ineffectuality was communicated clearly, the down-to-earth aspects like his school uniform made him relatable, etc. Norimaro was balanced in consideration of newcomers who came to the game via the TV show" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322493787147440130">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Marvel was violently opposed; naturally, they didn& #39;t want some random unpowered gag character going to-to-toe with their heroes. we pleaded desperately & tried to assuage themâ& #39;we& #39;ll only use him in Japan!& #39;âand so he& #39;s missing from the overseas versions" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322494490045673472">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"MSHvSF& #39;s other noteworthy character is US Agent, a Captain America color swap; he was originally introduced as an hard-nosed right-wing villain who showed the & #39;danger of zealotry& #39; &, by contrast, highlighted the delicate balance that made Cap so virtuous" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322501336894644225">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"US Agent& #39;s design in the comic is very different to Cap& #39;s, but in the game it& #39;s a simple palette swapâthat& #39;s because the nature of pixel art is such that going beyond changing the colors would be a huge job" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322501941444816898">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"Hiroto Ishikawa once asked me, & #39;can you add black-suit Spidey?& #39; but it was impossible for the same reasonâin order to change the pattern on the costume you have to re-draw the pixels, it& #39;s not like a polygonal game where you can easily reskin a 3D model" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322504006720106496">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"instead, Armored Spider-Man appears as a hidden character using the same pixel art, just with the colors changed: as you can see, we just changed Spidey& #39;s red to white and blue to black" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322506971933630465">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
"the armor in the comic is angular and very bumpy, but we turned a blind eye to the details... he& #39;s still Peter Parker under the suit, so you can& #39;t tag him with regular Spidey (except in the Saturn version, once you clear the game)" https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/status/1322508327566278656">https://twitter.com/sjxqr393/...
