After weeks of work and agony, i finally did some sprite edits of my own, ending up with these 4 AU versions of the DRA/SDRA2 characters:
She Was Saved AU!Akane (An AU version of Akane Taira who survived her canonical death, and now travels Japan alongside Yuki Maeda to help those suffering because of the Tragedy)
10 Years Later!Yuki (An 29-30 years old Yuki Maeda, who has lived on Akane Taira's body for 10 years after the end of Mikado Sannoji's killing game, and has changed into an appearance he's more confortable with)
10 Years Later!Mikado (An 20-30-something years old Mikado Sannoji, who has lived on Akane Taira's body for 10 years after he succesfully stole the Divine Luck and escaped his virtual prison, who now is creating a new Void to continue with his nefarious plans)
The Algorithm (An Alter Ego AI created from Sora's original algorithm, who doesn't have neither Akane Taira/Sora's memories and humanity nor any desires besides doing what's she's told, that now lives without purpose now that Mikado Sannoji's master plan was stopped)
Sprites available here: (Akane), (Sora!Yuki), (Sora!Mikado), (Algorithm)
- Whew I finally got this done after vastly underestimating how long it’d take for me to complete it. But it was a fun challenge and I’m happy with the final result. The next animation I make will be nowhere near as big in scope as this one. 🥴
there's nothing new in this post, i just wanted to have a post that has all my talent-swaps together in a single post.
sharing these designs with everyone was a lot of fun, so it's definitely something i'd consider doing again! (either with the dra cast or hell, i could see myself doing another batch of sdra2 ones as well... maybe i'll do a set of both where i actually consider the way the swaps would change the plot and all. who knows!)
these designs are a couple of months old, since initially i didn't plan on posting them, so there's already a lot of things i'd have done differently if i had done them now. overall, though, i think i'm happy with them!
anyways, for convenience, i'm gonna put some close-ups here as well as a list of all the talents everyone was assigned. i mentioned this before, but i'll put it here too - all the talents were randomized!