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Complete scans courtesy of Vesp on Twitter!
Soul Hackers no Subete is a strategy guide released for Soul Hackers’ initial 1997 release for Saturn. It also received a later revision to coincide with the game’s PlayStation port but the two guides have almost completely different content! These scans are of the first edition that contains, among other things, Kaneko’s comments for every new demon design in Soul Hackers!Definitely check it out!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lCYh9050dCqE6UDvmCLhZ-GHDNT92IJV/view
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I don’t know what to make of Bananya to be honest. Cat Bananas. That’s it. That’s the anime. And I’m pretty sure Bananya is a (half-)cannibal.
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Summer months call for a lighter wallpaper. Feel free to use. I did everyone so that anyone can have their favorite Embryon member.
750x1334px; 9:16. Though if you’re bothered by white clock/icon text overlaying over a mixture of colors then these are just something pretty to look at. I’m not, so that’s why I slacked on that part.
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I REALLY don’t want Devil Summoner to become mainstream. I’ve seen what Twitter has been doing to the other megaten games and I don’t want that fate for Raidou.
Started playing a new game today.
I ddnt know what to put in the background
my brain generates this image every time I hear “hey ho, the mistletoe”, I needed to share ☃️
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KANEKO’S CRIB NOTES LXII: HEARTFELT EROTICISM
It’s Halloween. No, it’s the Halloween beforeShin Megami Tensei V. That means it’s time to remember Kazuma Kaneko. He was a good artist before he was KILLED. Yes, that’s right. He was MURDERED. If you’ve seen him recently it was just a body double. Once Kaneko became old and worthless, Masayuki Doi touched the barrel of a gun to the back of his head execution style, said, “Move over for a new generation, motherfucker,” and pulled the trigger. Kaneko’s brains splattered all over his PC. Doi fucking blew his brains out. Brains. That’s a Halloween thing. Like zombies. Spooky.
Have fun this holiday season comparing details of the above images!
- MOTHMAN: According to Kaneko, not only is Mothman intentionally furry and fuzzy like a moth, he’s influenced by Obake no Q-Taro’s cylindrical Doronpa, an American obake in the manga/anime. It’s mainly in the head. If you don’t know Q-Taro, he’s the inspiration for SMT2′s Ghost Q!Kaneko also described Mothman’s silhouette as heart-shaped, so no wonder he’s so beloved!
- KHONSU: Damn, this fun Halloween mummy is doing a “Vogue” (ヴォーギング) move as popularized by Madonna! Kaneko cites the famous ‘Vogue Dance’ as inspiring Khonsu’s fabulous pose here, illustrated by this model working it in approximate fashion. Man, mummies are scary, like Halloween! This crib is a fucking slam dunk!
- GIRIMEKHALA: 32-bit-era Giri is influenced by the 1969 Toei animation The Wonderful World of Puss in Bootsandits Lucifer’s brief appearance as an elephant. Evil elephant, evil source influence I suppose. Giri builds upon details like Lucifer’s spiky crown and skull pendant!
- LHAM DEARG: This supremely Scottish ghost is based on supremely French actor Christopher Lambert in his iconic role as THE HIGHLANDER (1986)! Lham Dearg has clearly met a grisly end on the battlefield, but Connor MacLeod is eternal except in the cartoon where he dies almost instantly.
- ARTEMIS/DIANA: De-nippled for your protection! It’s common knowledge that these two are take-offs of the Artemis of Ephesus statues. However, it’s no longer believed that those statues’ multitudinous prominences are breasts but rather ornaments such as bull testicles or gourds. So honestly, the de-nippled Artemis and Diana are more accurate… if you’re thinking bull testicles.
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KANEKO’S CRIB NOTES LXI: DEAD MAN’S UNREST
Things I love in October: Jesus Christ, Hot Dogs, Chevy Trucks, Yankees Eliminated from Postseason, Kazuma Kaneko. And since we are nominally involved with the art of Kazuma Kaneko, certified Dead Guy, here’s some new material, i.e., stuff you WILL reblog over and over again so we can finally both crack 1000 notes on a post and surpass 2000 total followers. You’ll never read this text either so GO TO HELL; if you do read, you will GO TO HEAVEN
- ANGEL: Before he died, Kaneko loved French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, who provided costume design work for 1997′s The Fifth Element, like Jovovich’s Leeloo here, whose costume Kaneko 100% stole for Angel’s Nocturne update. It’s a cycle.
- XUANWU: The turtle-snake’s alt names are tagged but we’re gonna pretend they don’t exist. Anyway, during his alive days, Kaneko was totally into this Xuanwu art. I really miss that dude.
- EMPUSA: This scaly nightmare is actually “Lamia” from the bestiary History of Four-Footed Beasts, yadda, yadda, Kaneko then used it for Empusa, though it’s better for her anyway.
- SURT: Kaneko’s life can be divided into two periods: I. He watched Clive Barker’s 1990 film Nightbreed; II. He passed away. Thus, here’s a Midianite who appears for like three frames and has the same volcanic conehead as the two Surts.
- BELOBOG: Yes, it’s fan-favorite Belobog, now compared to Golden Bat, the kamishibai superhero. This is the cover of a magazine tie-in to the ‘60s movie, but Golden Bat generally looks the same wherever, with that cloak & collar and scepter that suspiciously also belong to Belobog. Thanks to that one Golden Bat video, via @caligulasterrarium.
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KANEKO’S CRIB NOTES LX: KISS FROM A NIGHT ROSE
That dark and unsettling time of year is once again upon us. With a flash of lightning and a peal of thunder, Kaneko’s Crib Notes once again rises from its grave! Kaneko himself, though: still dead. Blame the moe boom.
Anyway, you’ll be SHOCKED to the marrow as you discover what we have in store for you this season. Five CHILLING selections so brazen, so unexpected that you’ll wish this blog was active more than once a year. So before more CLICHESofTERRORgive you the cold sweats, do have a good and HAPPY HALLOWEEN this year. We mean it.
- LILITH: From the 1990 film Night Angel. Submitted by @cryomancer199x. SMT1’s Lilith is a composite of various elements of Night Angel’s Lilith: three fingers, stripes of scaly skin (makeup in the movie’s context), rings and jewelry, long, dark hair, and of course the classic snake. For more, check this gallery.
- ALRAUNE: From the 1973 Japanese book World Yokai Picture Book. We don’t know of an earlier appearance of Japan’s now-ubiquitous “naked girl emerging from a large flower” Alraune interpretation, so it’s likely this illustration influenced SMT’s, Castlevania’s, and the slew of horny mobile games to follow.
- JUEYUAN: From Gene Simmons’ “The Demon” Kiss character makeup. Kaneko gave this Chinese monkey and kidnapper of women a counterfeit of Simmons’ iconic makeup. Jueyuan also has a penis-shaped tail, so it’s likely an intentional pairing with the frontman’s licentious escapades.
- APSU: The arms are from a type of clay Astarte (less likely Asherah) figurine. Submitted by @doctorchevlong. Why the Mesopotamian fresh water deity has Canaanite Astarte arms, we couldn’t tell you. Just don’t let it ruin your day.
- MAGATAMA: From Alien Metallinome of Captain Ultra. Submitted by anonymous. The Magatama’s open configuration looks a lot like this thing’s head. Rest assured, we here at KCN care deeply about tokusatsu matters.
We’re now up to 120+ unique cribs! Thank you for reading this. Garbage.
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KANEKO’S CRIB NOTES LIX: NOW WE HAVE DEVIL SUMMONER WORLD GUIDANCE, HO-HO-HO
It’s the 2018 holiday season, which means Tumblr is about to become a smoldering crater. Until then, we’ve got some amazing new cribs for you courtesy of Devil Summoner World Guidance.DSWGis a solid demon art book with Kaneko comments for each of DS’s demons (a total of 275). Our gifts to you are the best five out of those mostly easily translated:
- Cu Chulainn: Finally on KCN! Kaneko’s is inspired by the Cu Chulainn in the obscure manga/anime Fairy King / Yousei-ou(妖精王). Technically the comments are about the Devil Summoner version but the SMT1 Cu Chulainn above makes for a better comparison to the manga art.
- Thor: DS’s “boring” Thor cribs mightily from Schwarzenegger’s Conan from Conan the Barbarian. Compare the beefy body, the fur-lined clothing, and especially the totally cribbed helmet. Just do it quickly, before Kratos savagely butchers him in God of War 2!
- Thanatos: This diseased dwarf is as unusual as they come, but Kaneko claims inspiration from two distinct sources: Okuyasu’s deformed father in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and Baron Harkonnen of Dune, presumably Kenneth McMillan’s pustulating portrayal from the 1984 film.
- Virtue: Virtue’s translucent body, while striking, has always been difficult to pin down but at last we know that it was intended as an homage to Claire, the glass/machine waitress of Galaxy Express 999: an odd but strangely appropriate visual for the angelic archetype.
- Rahu: Not merely an allusion to the idiomatic expression, Rahu’s craneal wang can apparently be traced back to the phallic pineal gland sported by Dr. Pretorius in Stuart Gordon’s cult classic From Beyond.
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