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Casual Portraits - Comickers 1995
This issue of the popular japanese magazine Comickers features personal portraits and interviews with some of the most famous mangaka of the 90s, Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) during the series' serialization, Kosuke Fujishima (Ah! My Goddess, You're Under Arrest) with his motorcycle collection, Reiko Okano (Fancy Dance, Onmyoji) discussing her creative process, and illustrator Ayumi Kasai breaking down her color manuscript techniques with markers.
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On the cover of Kazuma Keneko Works 1, there's a Bael design that we never see in any of the games, and is easily my favorite design of him compared to the SMT 1 and 2 designs. Does Kaneko own the design, is that why we've never seen him?
So this familiar face is part of the KKW1 cover art like you said, which is named "Advancing Army." My original printing of KKW1 gives a copyright of "Kazuma Kaneko/ATLUS 2004" but I think it's safe to say Atlus owns it entirely these days. I would have to agree it's Best Bael, even if it is basically just 1992 Bael done in "modern" Kaneko style.
Thing is, Kaneko over the years spruced up/slightly changed the designs for numerous demons appearing on these one-off illustrations.
Here are Berith and Eligor from the "Devil Hearts" artwork done for Comickers. I love the changes to both here. Berith's darker armor and cape give him a little more dimension, and Eligor gains a bit of fashion sense with the fur collar. These two (and Bael, of course) are probably my favorites of the spruce-ups. I forgot these Goetic horseguys' redesigns also appear on this Assembly of Nihilo artwork:
And one more, something very minor:
Satan's jaw on the KKW2 cover art, "Advent" has a separated mandible the original doesn't.
コミッカーズ 1997年12月号
Files I saved from 2004-2009ish
コミッカーズ 1997年8月号
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So what exactly is that "Boxingman in redroom" Kaneko artwork supposed to be? I saw the Comickers interview where he mentions it, but where was it published originally?
It's from the Spring 2003 issue of Comickers. So yep, same issue where he comments about it:
It’s only been eight years, but I finally managed to translate Kaneko’s interview from the spring 2003 number of Comickers. It’s a personal
Q: What can you tell us about the special illustration ‘Boxingman in redroom‘?
The image is overwhelmingly red, since there aren’t too many red rooms around. The folded man and the red room. Truth be told, I always plan this type of work as a series. You may see some characters hidden in the background and so on.
Q: Umm…why is the folded man in a box?
His desire to enter small places (laughs). He’s called ‘boxing man’ because of his short pants, but ‘boxing’ can also mean ‘folded’ in this context. I thought this type of dramatic association of ideas would be neat. If an illustration doesn’t have a story, I question the necessity of the illustration itself.
季刊コミッカーズ春号 1999年春号
