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29 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
former Raizing designer Mitsuakira Tatsuta has been unearthing lots of old sketches and character concepts from the original Bloody Roar🇯🇵 he says he drew ~300 character ideas in that time, with some (like this koala girl) received more coolly than others
an anteater beastorizer concept
an early version of the mole design that eventually became Bakuryu
a very early take on Alice
rejected cow and bat beastorizers
a design for a female character with a black panther beast form
a fairly detailed design for an older brother to Alice—Tatsuta was less involved with later games but he was thinking this far ahead from the beginning, apparently Bakuryu mk.II already existed in some form too
concepts for squirrel, elephant and goat beastorizers

(goat girl could have looked very silly in motion but I really like that design)

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