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[frozenkurage]

Your summaries are mostly correct.

2 things

Holm is an active spirit-user in Kahka Brud

Kuro and Mickbell run a なんでも屋. It could be a general store as in they sell whatever but considering their personality and skills, I'd translate them as being handyman. They'd do whatever odd-jobs; maybe something like movers, bodyguarding, cleaning or simple repairs

Here are the japanese transcript in of the images, including the parts from the previous sentences

Rin のだが、周囲の人間にはバレバレ。現在はカブルーとともにメリニに残り、薬師として働いている。

Holm ウンディーネで応戦するも返り討ちに。現在はカーカブルードで精霊使いとして活躍している。

Dia や浮世離れした雰囲気がある。現在は結婚し、カーカブルードで材木業に携 わっている。

Kuro ベルにこき使われつつ、いっしょになんでも屋を営む。

Mickbell 買うこと。現在はクロとともに、なんでも屋を営んでいる。

Kabru 近付いていく。迷宮消滅後もメリニに残り、 ヤアドのもとで政治学を学んでいる。

hello master meshi, i was wondering if we know what kabru's party gets up to post-canon? i think i've read fics where rin has a magic items shop and mickbell and kuro run a rival noodle shop to mithrun but i'm wondering if those are canon or fan speculation

There's a small blurb to what the characters do at the end of their profiles in the new adventurer's bible but I haven't seen it translates so every time I just run it on google translate forgive me

Kabru - Stayed in Melini and is studying under Yaad

Mickbell and Kuro - Running a general store? together

Dia - Married working with her husband in Kahka Brud

Rin - Stayed with Kabru in Melini working as a pharmacist?

Holm - Working in Kahka Brud

Here's the originals for anyone can actually translate it

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The link to the Polish interview https://pl.ign.com/pl/13583/interview/wywiad-z-rafalem-gosienieckim-polakiem-ktory-pracuje-przy-japonskich-grach

Also here is an instagram post, confirming his work on XY's team flare https://www.instagram.com/p/CHaXIiIHaPY/

Its possible these are his work of the team aqua and magma concept art

https://twitter.com/pkm_jp/status/1775709662496927834

https://twitter.com/pkm_jp/status/1775704899747229836

In an interview with IGN, Polish artist Rafal Gosieniecki (@rafpointzero) mentioned that he was in charge of the redesigns of the villainous team members, while Ken Sugimori and his assistants were in charge of their settei. (source)

I finally found the person responsible for designing my favourite teams. This is important to me.

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Until I can reliably answer asks again (will still be some time) I will publish posts like the following to work out some thoughts (provocative or stupid) on various SMT topics that catch my interest. Plus, i need to get my writing skills back into shape.

One such stupid thought when Doi's new Glasya-Labolas was revealed was, "Glasya-Labolas is supposed to have the wings of a griffin and SMT already has Gryphon designs: the standalone dude from SMT1 and the one Murmur rides from Soul Hackers; for internal consistency, shouldn't that mean the new Glasya-Labolas should have wings like these pre-existing forms?This is not a good line of thought for various reasons, including:

a griffin is already a hybrid creature, its own wings are just an eagle's wings.

G-L's probably art deco wings are an inspired choice.

Said wings complement the focus of the design: the mask.

The mask captures the essence of the Dictionnaire print's expression in a novel form.

As Doi himself comments: "Glasya-Labolas is said to be a dog-shaped demon with griffon-like wings. He is also depicted as a dog with a unique face in the illustration for Hell's Dictionary. If I designed it normally, it would end up with an evil character similar to the griffon shown in this illustration, so I felt that although it was faithful to the original, it would lack interest. Therefore, we decided to incorporate our own interpretation into the appearance of this work in order to give it some originality." and "Next, regarding the face that was featured in the Hell's Dictionary illustration that I mentioned earlier, I thought about how I could create an interesting design that would take advantage of this unique facial feature.

Many of the demons that appear in Goetia have two sides, and this is true for Glasya-Labolas.It has one side that threatens to kill humans, and another side that is like a teacher who imparts learning. Therefore, in order to express these, I made the face a mask, and by turning it upside down, I was able to express both the eerie face of a devil and the gentle face of a teacher."

So despite my initial negative reaction to the design, it's since won me over and is definitely Doi's best Goetia demon yet. And lastly, "dog with wings" has already been done in smt:

...Even if Marchosias probably has little chance of returning anytime soon. And Even if he did, Glasya-Labolas is quite distinct from him.