#niji hayashi

[rainbowdonkee]

Full art for Brave Alfonse - Heir to Openness

Artist: Niji Hayashi

[childofaura]

If you’re still doing the FEH artist asks, what about Niji Hayashi?

I'm ALWAYS up for FEH artist asks. I love the chances to interact!

And Niji Hayashi is a great choice. They're the artist for Ballroom Eldigan (Don't really know what else to call him besides that), Resplendent Elincia, New Year's Fafnir, Summer Hilda/Marianne, Ascended Ishtar, Resplendent Raven, and Ymir. A pretty nice well-rounded cast! And also a lot of original designing going on. They've got a really nice sharp coloring style going on, where some artists might have softer or more blended shading, Hayashi's is crisp and defined. And a fascinating thing to note is that their lineart is very textured; kind of like Fujisaka Kimihiko's work.

It's funny, because I've noticed a lot of their men they've drawn so far are sharp and serious; There's a little bit of variety though with Fafnir's smug smile:

I wanna give them credit where credit is due: I have always strongly disliked character designs where the character has no eyebrows; It's why I hate Hubert's design because I feel it partially messes with the character's ability to express. But Fafnir... He's kinda handsome-looking in this style o//w\\o

But like I mentioned before, they have some GREAT original costume designs for the characters they've drawn!

Resplendent Elincia:

No offense to Kippu, as I said before I love their art. But I love that Hayashi wasn't afraid to work with Elincia's dark green hair; that's a bit of a difficult beast to overcome in working with color, but they gave her a gorgeous outfit to compliment it (And I LOVE the style of the butterfly wings and the crown!).

Summer Hilda and Marianne:

I think Marianne's ensemble is just so pretty, and Hilda's is a nice call-back to her timeskip outfit.

Resplendent Raven:

The tatters of Hel's regalia really suits Raven.

And Ymir:

I also want to point out the absolutely gorgeous work with the plants and the waterfalls that fall underneath her cloak; Ymir's design relies more on her natural adornments rather than her clothing, and it really does help to tie in the outfit.

Their posework is also nice and dynamic, too! Using the crit portraits because also those crits are great!

Also, this isn't a criticism or anything, but I was reviewing their portraits gallery and Elincia's... That girl has some CAKE:

I don't know why but it's like super funny to me. I'm jealous XD

I honestly can't think of any crazy-strong criticisms... I guess if I had to think of ONE thing, I'd say that I'd like to see some more character diversity in terms of age for the characters. Maybe have them tackle Manuela, Nuibaba, or Calill for the women, and for the guys maybe Yukimura, Vaike, or Jesse.

All in all, they're a very close 9.99999/10. Really great artist, really great artwork, even if it's a character I wouldn't really summon on, I can't say I've had any complaints or issues with their artwork. I think they'd be a great choice to draw Felix, a Lon'Qu alt, a Shez alt (male or female), or a Luthier alt (Pls IS, more Luthier pls).

[mihotose]

[feh-alt-battle]

Request Poll - Claude

Please do not criticize any art you may not like or compare one art to another in terms of quality, it's unkind and downplays the amount of work that the feh artists put into them. Please treat the feh artists how you would as any other artist - with kindness and with love.

Artists in order: Sata, Wada Sachiko, azu-taro, azu-taro, Nishiki Areku, Niji Hayashi

[w0rld0flight]

Happy 7th anniversary to Fire Emblem Heroes :)

Despite the flaws this game has, as well as my criticisms for it, I still enjoy it at the end of the day.

Also goodness gracious I still remember in 2017, when people were talking about how there'll be a Fire Emblem spin-off game for mobile devices and stuff like that, and now look at how far we've come ;w;

So, to celebrate, I'll be posting all the artworks made for the game's 7th anniversary!

First up, the artwork by Kita Senri!

Wada Sachiko

Rika Suzuki

Asatani Tomoyo

Yamada Kotaro

ichikawa Halu

Niji Hayashi

Essual

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PenekoR

cuboon

Kippu

Daisuke Izuka

Yoshiku

Watarizora Tsubamemaru

[nanisorezura]

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LIKE IT！LOVE IT! performed by Coco Hayashi aka Hayamaru

Not sure if this was from Day 1 or Day 2 of the live but I think she did great. I feel like her vocals were stronger during CHASE! but we have to remember this is her first performance at one of Niji’s lives. She still brought that same Setsuna energy, which once again is one of the most important parts, in my opinion.

[yeyayeya]

Top 5 FEH artists (imo)

Wada Sachiko - Her art is so beautiful? She was also the lead artist for FE7 and FE8. FE7 just looks clean and FE8 has the dark, rugged (there is a better word but my brain can’t find it atm) look that suits the game. Also her drawing Eliwood does not disappoint because she makes him looks fucking handsome.

Kita Senri - Her art is by far the best in the series, although Echoes is a close second. I don’t know what to say except that just like Wada her art in FEH is godlike.

Suzuki Rika - I think the artist is a woman? Idk but seeing their art for FE4 characters just makes me want a remake with Suzuki Rika as the lead artist. That would be a dream come true and their art is fucking ethereal

Asatani Tomoyo - The special art is the cream on top for this artist. Fallen!Berkut has to be my favorite fallen art because of how dynamic it is. The art looks so clean to me as well.

azu-taro - Something about it is just checks all the marks for art to me. How soft the art and colors look to me just brings this artist up there for me

Honorable Mentions: Kozaki Yusuke, Niji Hayashi, and Nishiki Areku

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

In general I think there's kind of a bittersweetness to my feelings on Love Live at the moment - I miss SIF and SIFAS a lot, I miss Tomori a fuck ton and am still struggling to really feel for Coco Hayashi as Setsuna, I don't like Liella's new members very much (the characters, not the seiyuu) and there's a language barrier in the way of me getting into the musical or Hasunosora stuff. All of which is kind of just various degrees of bummer. Although the sweet part of that bittersweetness is the music is getting better and better consistently, Niji have three fucking movies coming out, and Aqours even got to come back in full TV anime format and it's the best Love Live has ever looked, plus we're even getting a fucking IntiCreates metroidvania out of it. We've gotten cool shit recently and there's still cool shit coming. So hey, that's something pretty sick.

[rubywolf0201]

Full art of Gregor in FEH, drawn by Niji Hayashi.

As always, Hayashi never fails to impress me with their art and the fact they’re in charge of Gregor's art just makes me ✌🏻

[magpiejay1234]

Legacy of Destruction stream is confirmed for 17th December, at 14:45 JST.

The guests are:

**Cronos de Medici/Vellian Crowler (VA as the character ofc)

**Chiaki Kobayashi, Rinnosuke Nanahoshi's VA, and Diva/Aigami's current VA in Duel Links (his original VA in DSoD was different, it was Kento Hayashi)

**Takuya Eguchi, Shuta Hanami/Cameron Clix's VA.

So far this only confirms Ancient Gears, but we'll see what else pops up.

Edit:

The YGOrganization article, and Yugioh Starlight link are here.

Edit (9th December, 2023):

Official website lists Takuya Eguchi for his role as Zuwijo from GO RUSH!!, and Chiaki Kobayashi as Rinnosuke from SEVENS, so they are for Rush Duels.

I forgot Takuya Eguchi was Zuwijo.

Edit (17 December, 2023): Corrected Cronos di Medici, as Cronos de Medici, and Velian Crowler as Vellian Crowler for sake of posteriority.

[rainbowdonkee]

Part 2 of the FEH 7th Anniversary illustrations!

Find the first post here.

[childofaura]

The new R!Sigurd?

YES, that one came out looking so good. Let's break it down.

So Resplendent Sigurd is another grand slam by Niji Hayashi:

Look at that incorporation! Look at the torso! There's an active glow to his torso with energy emanating from it! Look at his ragged cape flowing all around him! This is a gorgeously designed Hel Resplendent, one that could match Heldigan. The armor design for his chest is very appealing, and the addition of shoulder pauldrons in Hel's style, plus the flared out sleeves, is great. Outstanding design overall, and now we just need Quan to complete this trifecta of fallen friends (and Quan's color-scheme being black and gold gives me hopes for a very promising Hel Resplendent design for him).

I don't need to sound like a broken record, I really like Niji Hayashi's artwork. The posework for Sigurd is so solid.

Hel definitely fits Sigurd's tragic end, from the info I've gleaned regarding Genealogy. Though lots of people were suggesting Muspell attire D:

Resplendent Sigurd is easily a 10/10. Like I mentioned before, I eagerly await Resplendent Quan to see A) who is the artist for him, and B) If they can live up to the hype that Suzuki Rika and Niji Hayashi have established.

[yusuke-of-valla]

I see Niji Hayashi just decided to go all in on the damaged art

[feh-alt-battle]

Request Poll - Takumi

Please do not criticize any art you may not like or compare one art to another in terms of quality, it's unkind and downplays the amount of work that the feh artists put into them. Please treat the feh artists how you would as any other artist - with kindness and with love.

Artists in order: Hino Shinnosuke, hou, Tobi, Hino Shinnosuke, Tobi, Niji Hayashi

[demifiendrsa]

Fire Emblem Heroes - Special Heroes (Summer Vibrance)

Ashe: Fabled Sea Knight character artwork set illustrated by azu-taro

Mercedes: Unfussed Basker character artwork set illustrated by Kippu

Caspar: Summer Intensity character artwork set illustrated by Meka

Hilda: Deer's Two-Piece character artwork set illustrated by Niji Hayashi

[fire-emblem-supports]

CYL5 Predictions & Hopes

I ALMOST FORGOT I USUALLY DO THESE not that i think anyone really cares, but i'd feel weird if i didn't

Expect Three Houses spoilers but also it's been two years man go play the game

Marianne: White Heron Dancer

"I won this garb in a contest five years ago... I still can't believe someone like me won."

I don't know that I consider this particularly likely, but I think it would be more interesting than the sword or magic cav she's likely to get, and it could maybe even break the curse of the red units being the worst, seeing as support units are powercrept at a much slower rate than nukes. This Marianne would be a Sword Flier wielding Blutgang and she would also have the Dance skill. Blutgang gets Beast Fang's effectiveness against dragon and cavalry units and has adaptive damage, but also gets the +4 to all stats from Dancer Berkut's weapon. I think an interesting adaptation of her signature Animal Friend skill would be to allow Beast units to transform when next to her, while also healing 10 HP to herself and all cavalry and flying allies at the start of each turn when she is on a team with two or more cavs/fliers. Letting it heal her allies helps solidify her role as a support unit, though Blutgang and her self-healing means she can be offensive if need be, like Triandra. It would be her B-skill.

For art, I'll put forward Kurahana Chinatsu as decently likely to do either hers or Gatekeeper's, since they like to use the original artists where possible (they didn't last year, but that was probably to avoid showing favoritism to Edelgard, Dimitri, or Claude). I'd lean Marianne is more likely since she's more of a "canon" character. If not, though, Niji Hayashi (Summer Hilda/Marianne, a Marianne Cipher card), Konfuzi Kokon (Faye, Fiora, Marianne's Cipher card as a Dancer), or Fujikawa Akira (Marisa, Celica, Fallen Celica) are all good options.

Gatekeeper: Sworn Protector

"I'll keep this castle safe as long as I'm here, promise! Right now, there's nothing to report!"

Gatekeeper is a bit tough to theorycraft, since there's obviously... not a lot to go off of, lol. I think that, like Brave Lysithea, he'll probably end up with an outfit based on one of the Master Classes, so I'll put forward a version of him that is Axe Cavalry based on the Great Knight class and wielding the Axe of Ukonvasara. The Axe of Ukonvasara is effective against armored foes, heals 10 HP every hit like the Sol Lance, and enables [ Canto (3) ]. Whatever his special skill is called, I predict it being an omni-Save (Near and Far) that grants Atk/Spd/Def/Res+3 when Savior triggers.

Like Marianne, Kurahana Chinatsu is a decent prediction for art, but it's worth noting that Kita Senri is actually the only one who's drawn official art for Gatekeeper (for Cipher) and thus could be considered his "original" artist; I'd personally rather see Kita Senri do Gatekeeper and let Kurahana Chinatsu do Marianne. If neither of them, I'd also like to see Tobi (Azelle, Winter Bernadetta, the Morgans), Asatani Tomoyo (Eirika, Ephraim, Berkut), or lack (Beruka, Silque, Brave Dimitri) try their hand at him.

Eirika: Sacred Twin Lady

"Siegmund and Sieglinde... Twins, like my brother and I."

Eirika is hard to come up with anything interesting for because most good ideas have been taken by her legendary and Anamnesis alts and Ephraim's brave alt. So here's what I got: she's a Lance Cavalry, but she wields both Sieglinde and Siegmund. This grants her weapon triangle advantage against blue foes, but doesn't affect the weapon triangle against red or green foes. So basically:

Vs. Red Foe: Eirika gets +20% damage, foe gets -20% damage

Vs. Blue Foe: Eirika gets +20% damage, foe gets -20% damage

Vs. Green Foe: Eirika gets -20% damage, foe gets +20% damage

Vs. Colorless Foe: no effect

On top of that, she gets the dual-phase Brave effect that is now assumed with dual-wielding characters (like Altina and the ninjas). I'm conflicted on whether or not she could get a third effect since both of those are decently broken, but if she does, it would probably be some combination of Sieglinde/Siegmund's skills.

For art, I can't see it being anyone but Wada Sachiko as her original artist and the artist for Brave Ephraim. If it's somehow not, it'll be Asatani Tomoyo, but... come on, it's gotta be Wada Sachiko.

Marth: Hero Lodestar

"This sacred tome was forged from two of the Fire Emblem's spheres. I wield its guiding light against darkness."

And finally, Marth. I'm honestly a little lost on an outfit for him, but I agree with most people that he'll probably be a Blue Mage Infantry wielding Starlight, which would grant him effectiveness against magic foes as well as Odd/Even Recovery's penalty erasure at the start of the turn. I also think he'll probably come with Fire Emblem, even though it's a little unfair to Eirika. Unique special and assist skills tend to be treated differently, like Brave Micaiah's Sacrifice and Lif's Open the Future.

Like Eirika, I think Marth's art is pretty guaranteed: Daisuke Izuka, as artist for the Shadow Dragon/Mystery remakes and Legendary Marth. If it's somehow not him, it'll probably be Mayo (Groom Marth), Tobi (Resplendent Marth), or (if Eirika doesn't get the art she deserves) Wada Sachiko (normal and Young Marth). Maiponpon (Lucina and Masked Marth) or Kozaki Yusuke (Brave Lucina) are also decent possibilities. I'd personally prefer Tobi, Wada Sachiko, or Kozaki Yusuke, but... come on, just let it be Daisuke Izuka.

That's all I got. Once again, I think basically anything for these units would be fine. The biggest travesty would be if Marth just gets Falchion like how they screwed over Alm, and I'd personally be a little upset if Gatekeeper was an armor unit without any movement shenanigans, but generally speaking I doubt any of these characters will get anything too terribly disappointing, and I'm sure art will be fine no matter what. Can't wait for Bravekeeper!