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To be honest, I don't like the outfit very much. It feels overdone and cluttered, with too many things going on at once. The bunny-ear antennae with an orbiting crescent moon and random audio jacks look particularly silly.

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Wait... this isn't a joke??? This is Rin Penrose's new design???

I mean... it's her prerogative, but seriously, this genuinely seems like a cliché "virtual idol" design that Rin would reveal on April Fools' Day. Is she reinventing her persona or something?

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CrystalLeaf said in comment #2598341:

Wait... this isn't a joke??? This is Rin Penrose's new design???

I mean... it's her prerogative, but seriously, this genuinely seems like a cliché "virtual idol" design that Rin would reveal on April Fools' Day. Is she reinventing her persona or something?

The long and short of the rebrand that she brings up is; 1. When she was with Idol the original Rin was a rush job
2. She was on her way to get a 2nd outfit right before resigning from Idol, so that was scrapped (was going to be a new artist back then too).
3. She drew up plans for her own outfit right after leaving, but felt she couldn't complete it with the artist for language and money reasons.
4. Years later with just the design she was just done with it.
And after that, new design, new artist etc. and we're here

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CrystalLeaf said in comment #2598341:

I mean... it's her prerogative, but seriously, this genuinely seems like a cliché "virtual idol" design that Rin would reveal on April Fools' Day.

Yeah, that was my initial reaction too. I thought Rinako Bellerose was basically her way of saying she'd never do something like that, so seeing a similar concept being done in earnest a few years later is incredibly jarring. As you said, it's her perogative, but it's still strange regardless.

demu said in comment #2599161:

1. When she was with Idol the original Rin was a rush job

If that's the case, I genuinely couldn't tell. I think the original design was pretty solid, even if it was made in a short amount of time. Seems odd to cite that as a reason for rebranding, as the design being rushed isn't particularly obvious.

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This brings me back, In 97 this was playing at a local art house cinema and me being 12 and IN LOVE with everything that was anime related urged my dad to take me to see this. Needless to say those 90 or so minutes were life changing for the both of us

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Not sure if it's a real weapon or not, but IMFDB doesn't appear to show anything similar to the SMG the major is holding here. It looks kind of unique with the grip and trigger so close to the muzzle, in front of the magazine. Anyone have any idea what it is?

Closest thing I can seem to find is a bullpup version of a "Stribog SPA9", but it doesn't look quite right either.

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Shinjidude said:

Not sure if it's a real weapon or not, but IMFDB doesn't appear to show anything similar to the SMG the major is holding here. It looks kind of unique with the grip and trigger so close to the muzzle, in front of the magazine. Anyone have any idea what it is?

Closest thing I can seem to find is a bullpup version of a "Stribog SPA9", but it doesn't look quite right either.

It's very likely a completely fictional firearm that only coincidentally looks like that Stribog (the Stribog came out in the late 2010s, and this art is from 1995 at the very latest). I suspect it's an early design of the CZN-M22 from the film before they finalized the look.

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machan12 said in comment #2599376:

Could you explain your basis for that?

I can tell just by the line art alone.

The body has good color rendering, but the line art and background don’t match the same level of quality. It looks heavily traced because of that inconsistency. Also, if you check their other artworks, they all have decent anatomy.

You can’t suddenly perfect anatomy with that level of line art.

And the artist also has a lot of AI art in their Pixiv bookmarks, which says a lot.

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luckyxfe said in comment #2599381:

Never in my mind would I see a blue archive artist to draw cookie run kingdom content

...Why, exactly? They're both extremely popular current gacha games from South Korea, it doesn't surprise me at all that an artist would be into both.

Edit: Oh, they're an OFFICIAL artist, I see. That's certainly interesting, haha, though still not too surprising I suppose.

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