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Redundant-Cat In reply to saltykubiz134 [2014-11-19 08:19:10 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

I try to get as close as possible to the original design when drawing vehicles and aircraft. In this case I wanted to include as much of the original aircraft in the character design as possible. (I suppose closer to the Kancolle or MM2 mecha designs)

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saltykubiz134 In reply to Redundant-Cat [2014-11-20 03:02:26 +0000 UTC]

MM2? What's that?

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Redundant-Cat In reply to saltykubiz134 [2014-11-20 03:22:47 +0000 UTC]

Moe Moe niji dasenryaku 2, a J-RPG/Visual novel game based on WWII where the main countries have units represented as mecha characters. I suppose if Kancolle was an RPG MM2 would probably be very close to it.

Intro is about as over the top as one would expect:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsGB6…

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saltykubiz134 In reply to Redundant-Cat [2014-11-20 03:49:09 +0000 UTC]

O I see! Well.. For some reason... I don't really like the typical visual novel art style of it... no offence.. it's kinda creeped me out. *.*

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Redundant-Cat In reply to saltykubiz134 [2014-11-20 04:00:17 +0000 UTC]

Yeah true, mainly looked at it based on their mecha character designs more than anything. I think it was made as a joke game by the company that made it since all of their other games are your traditional turn-based military strategy games.

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saltykubiz134 In reply to Redundant-Cat [2014-11-20 13:44:06 +0000 UTC]

Umm.... maybe... Other than Higurashi, Clannad and Kanon, I don't play Visual Novel else. I dunno. That game's character designs doesn't seem really fresh out nor refined as I would like it to be.
I'm more prefer Humikane Shimada's mecha musume style.
Anyways, thanks to you... After I saw ki-45, I'm now back into another military PC game called "War Thunder". Have you ever heard of it?

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Redundant-Cat In reply to saltykubiz134 [2014-11-20 21:07:58 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I have been playing Warthunder for a while on and off. I would say that through playing it I have become more interested in the lesser known aircraft of the 1940s-50s

MM2 was just one of the examples that I draw from, in combination with Shimada's style, but I suppose (for me at least) the main thing within the mecha-musume style is to find the best balance between mecha and musume .

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saltykubiz134 In reply to Redundant-Cat [2014-11-21 15:36:47 +0000 UTC]

Oh! I guess we should play together sometime then xD. I'll add you to my friend list. 

I know the world mecha.... but what's musume btw?

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Redundant-Cat In reply to saltykubiz134 [2014-11-21 22:08:54 +0000 UTC]

My ingame name is Royalcat, I'm assuming yours is the same as on dA?

Also, musume is just a term used for girl/woman in Japanese. The literal definition is daughter so from what I can tell there is the connotation of purity/innocence. It is used like other Japanese terms for family members, which are often used more broadly (i.e Neesan = older sister->older girl, Baasan = grandma->older woman).

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