Japanese illustrator and animator Mutsumi Inomata has passed away on March 10, 2024 at age 63. A cause of death was not shared.
Inomata is best known as one of the main character designer on a number of Bandai Namco's Tales of series. Her past works includeTales of Destiny, Tales of Eternia, Tales of Destiny 2, Tales of Rebirth, Tales of the Tempest, Tales of Innocence, Tales of Hearts, Tales of Graces, Tales of Xillia, Tales of Xillia 2, Tales of Zestiria, Tales of Berseria, and Tales of Crestoria.
Within anime, Inomata worked as an animator at Ashi Production from 1979 until 1982, when she and some animators from Ashi Production left the company and founded Kaname Production. There, she worked as character designer and animator on such anime as Acrobunch - The Quest for Treasure, Plawres Sanshiro, Leda - The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, Once Upon a Time, and Watt Poe to Bokura no Ohanashi, among others. In her later freelance career, she drew character designs for such anime as Future GPX Cyber Formula, Saitama Bōsō Saizensen Flag! Shinimonogurui no Seishun!!, and Brain Powerd. She also drew the illustrations for the Utsunomiko and The Weathering Continent novel series, both of which later inspired anime adaptations.
"It was so sudden, she had drafts left over, and I'm sure she's still drawing even in heaven. I'm sure she's surrounded by cats, drawing her adorable characters with big eyes like she always did."
[Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia in the Creed Graphite DLC costume. he is wearing a galaxy-print jumpsuit with wide legs, long puffed sleeves, and a deep v-cut front with laces. There's also large petal shapes sticking out of the collar on either side, and tails on the back. He is glaring down at the viewer, holding his sword]
[comic of the artist and their friend playing the game.
friend: he looks like David Bowie in Labyrinth.
me: he looks like the dads at the end of Mamma Mia 2!
me: I'm roleplaying him as having stole this outfit from the mansion.
friend: but he hates rich people
me: it's ironic. it's camp.]
🎅🎄🎁Tales of Secret Santa 2023 sign-ups are now open! 🎅🎄🎁
You can find the collection here. Sign-ups are open until November 24.
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It's the 15th anniversary of Tales of Hearts today, so you know what that means: sharing resources so that other people can enjoy it more fully! Sadly I do not have any newly posted translations to share, but I did go through and archived links to 100 Hearts translations!
The translations provided include a link to the translated game script, some world-building information, interviews, script comparisons between the DS version&the remake, many, many manga translations, as well as other things!
CHECK IT OUT HERE
This is by no means a complete list, as I may have missed some things. If there's anything you think should be added, by all means let me know, and I'll keep this updated as much as I can.
Huge shoutout to @aera-enfys, who has been diligently translating for the game for a whole decade now and provided most of the translations on this list!
Various Tales of Series soundtracks are now available on Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, and more!
As of today, OSTs of Tales of the Abyss, Graces, Hearts and Vesperia are out. This comes after Tales of Phantasia, Destiny and Destiny 2's that were released last December 15th.
"Sketchbook" immediately brought Beryl to mind, and I thought it would be cute to have her looking through her grandfather's sketchbook. And then I remembered that I actually inherited some of my own grandfather's art and I thought it would be neat to work that in there. So credit to Nagyapa for those little art pieces :)