Capcom WHY

Why does that sound familiar.

I'm pretty sure that you're talking about Ishikawa Hideki the artist and character designer from Legends/Dash series.
He also did a bunch of Roll lewds

The artist is a freelancer named Toru Nakayama.
Would this have anything to do with it? I haven't actually gone to the site, so I don't know.
hwbb.gyao.ne.jp/gaio-pk/

Any chance you've found scans of the English Breath of Fire or Okami Artbooks?

Bruh, I've been looking for that thing for FUCKING AGES
Thank you user

Are there any reliable places for vidya artbook scans? There used to be a good amount of them some years ago but now it's all been imgur albums, freakin' Tumblr, sometimes a Wikia and a chance finding like this thread.

you are a good man user, at least online

Are they, dareisayit, /ourguy/?

Emuparadise has a handful of them in its books section, but again, that's just a handful. Nicoblog also had a number of them, but the uploads and their associated pages seem to have been purged for whatever reason (maybe not being vidya enough? I don't know). Sometimes otherwise lewd focused sites, like sadpanda and the like, will also have artbooks for more standard anime and vidya. Of course, it's also worth saying that, unless it's a work that has an official English release, it seems rather rare for artbooks to get a full fan-translation done and edited into the actual scans (Xenogears: Perfect Works being one I know of that has).

I remember the old days of halfchan having had /rs/ functioning as an archive of uploaded material, a number of which having been various artbooks. Was saddening seeing that place turn into a graveyard of unmaintained links over the years though, and it wasn't helped by the fact that hotpockets would crackdown on outside links. I remember getting banned a few times for reposting old megaupload links to artbooks that other anons had posted before that had been allowed just fine in the past; seems like it depended entirely on who was on duty as to if you caught a ban for it or not, as it wasn't consistent.

Wish the guys at Desert Moon would make good on rescanning their copy of Chronicle F. The resolutions decent for the actual image visuals, but it seems like the text would be a pain for someone to try to transcribe/translate at the current size; too much room or error with the kanji.

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Pic related is what EP's book section has in specific (copied list into tabled text doc for easier viewing). Some of them are just "regular" vidya books and not artbooks though.

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Also seems like a site called vnsharing has an artbook/databook section which isn't entirely restricted to visual novels. Not sure how well maintained/updated their links are though, and some seem to require not only registration but high enough post counts to access (thankfully the one pic related was from, a game I enjoyed, wasn't).

I'm not in the Caliphate but as a Yuropoor, I still put up with their shit.

Anyway, managed to sneak in with a proxy. Seems a lot of the links are defunct but I think it's very old stuff I probably already downloaded over a decade ago. Went looking for Capcom Design Works to be sure and incidentally Nicoblog is blocked too.
Side note, seeing Capcom's portfolio of old and looking at the shambling corpse they are now is almost depressing. I honestly think they'll be goners in a couple of years or have nothing to show besides SFV and MvC DLC.
Also bummed the Psikyo one wasn't working. Jun Tsukasa is just one of those I'll always hold in high regard.

Of course it is. Have to make sure to keep pirated games out and dangerous rapefugees in, after all.

What do you mean, the link on vnsharing, or EP? Because I just tried the latter and it worked fine for me. But then again I'm not out in YUROP.

I haven't paid that much attention to their most recent offerings on account of mainly playing older stuff, or in the case of newer works playing them years and years after they're out, but the main "recent" game that I'd heard good stuff about over the years has mainly been Ghost Trick (which was indeed VERY good) and Dragon's Dogma (which I have yet to play). Capcom seems all to happy to piss away what liking people have had for them, and while I suppose one can say what they want about Mega Man, and whether or not it had enough games in the series already, I've never really seen a big vidya company opt to just drop their mascot the way Capcom has. In general though, I'd swear some of these companies get off on angering their consumers. Not just with vidya either.

The EP one. It's probably on my end. Can't hog all the bandwidth, how are our melanin-enriched doctors and engineers supposed to livestream gangrapes on Faceberg?

It seems Inafune's parting gift was the poison that's still killing them. He pushed for the "pander to the West" crap and got them thinking they can hit CoD/GTA figures. Since then, Capcom has been the worst cashcow breeder of all time. If they kept doing what they used to do with smart budgeting and more modest expectations like how Sega and Fatlus do, they'd probably be doing better. Their TGS line-up was RE ports, RE7 DLC and MonHunW.

You mean Kadokawa? Just caught a glimpse of the Kemono Friends debacle. That shit ain't tanoshii at all. Staff resigning en masse was pretty ballsy though.

If you want, I can dump it for you. Five files per post is certainly better than the old days of one file per post (plus captcha every time) as things were back on halfchan years back. Fuck, it's probably still the same now, if not worse there.

The thread on /a/ made it sound less like "resigned" and more like "got removed as well". Hell, it seems like Kadokawa dragged the seiyuus out to damage control.

Capcom might never be good again but their games could be if they get bought out.

If it's not too much of an imposition, I'd appreciate it.

Now that I think about it, I recall them being mentioned before for being particularly scummy with pushing the boatsluts.

Motherfucker. I doubt the artbook section of the series wiki has complete scans either; a buyfag site lists that the book has 112 pages, but the highest the wiki has scans for is up to 88.

Okay, not like I've got anything better to do.

Going to have subsequent posts be non-bumping as I'm not fond of constant bumping during dumps like these.

Also haven't personally delved into if all of these are work safe or not, so I'm going spoilers set to "on" to err on the safe side of the hotpockets.

Whatever. Hopefully I can get these all through before the daily "posting shits itself" thing I've noticed happening during evening for west coast/mountain time zones lately.

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Much obliged.
Wonder what became of them? Last I heard of was a PSP sequel to Sengoku Blade but it was 3D so most of the charm was lost. They mostly did shooters and frisky mahjong games and even did some work with Capcom, chiefly that shooter with Cammy, Nash, Arthur and B.B. Hood.
Tits aside, Sengoku Blade is easily one of my 3 favorite shooting games (others being Steel Empire and Darius Gaiden); pretty fun top notch sci-fi meets feudal Japan art and tons of different endings depending on the character pairings players choose.

What became of who? The artists? Some cases are easier to find than others, as depending on popularity, they might find a steady stream of work with not just games, but manga, anime, and maybe doujins as well (though perhaps under a pseudonym to prevent tainting their branding upfront, unless that was the original selling point).

I actually did some digging in regards to an artist I'd been curious as to where he'd gone, named Yoshiaki Inagaki, who had done the original designs for Tales of Phantasia before getting shitcanned for Kousuke Fujishima's now-standard (re)designs. Seems he was part of the group that split from WolfTeam over Namco's handling and forced changes to Tales of Phantasia, and Tri-Ace kept him around, though from the looks of Mobygames's page on him, he doesn't seem to get credited on games much anymore now that he's the Art Director and not character artist. Latest crediting they list for him being Star Ocean: The First Departure in 2008 (makes sense; he was the artist for the original SFC version as well), but there's nothing listed since then and even that was an apparent nine-year gulf in credited work from Valkyrie Profile PS1. He used to have a site devoted to his now-unused Phantasia work, but it went under.

Anyhow, maybe consider checking the names of the artists on mobygames. Might be useful especially in cases where the kikes at Wikipedia have deemed them irrelevant to the point they don't warrant a page (as is the case with Inagaki).

From wich of the books are the first 3 images?

Also, I took a look around. That dokuganryu guy seems to indeed have had a lot of artbook scans at one point, at least as of double-checking archives for the site (which seems to have since been bought out; the active domain looks vastly different than the previous one and is in Japanese).
web.archive.org/web/20100921064129/http://dokuganryu.com/scans.html
Shame archives don't retain active downloads, and some of the links that still worked as of the capture never got their own pages saved either.

I think some of those might have been dropped into EP as well (such as the Shadow Hearts sets), but for the bulk, they're gone. Wonder if he just ran out of funds to keep the site going, or if rights holders cracked down on him hard over hosting artbook scans.

Meant the company but since you mention the artists, also curious about Jun Tsukasa. He used to do a lot of doujin art though it was mostly covers and pin-ups and the occasional artbook or calendar.

I always thought the guy stopped because he got fed up with the autists in the chatbox constantly asking for stuff he obviously had no interest in.

Anyone have the Monster Hunter artbook? I keep on seeing images from in on Holla Forums but i never got to see the entire thing.

Not sure if any are the exact one you're looking for, but that vnsharing site I mentioned has an "[Artbook] Monster Hunter", "Monster Hunter Illustrations Vol.1", and "Monster Hunter Illustrations Vol.2" uploaded, and none of them require registration to access the download links to.

Modern Capcom is crap; all the talent from yesteryear has fled.