Fan art in PC Engine games

[Gao]

So I just played through Shubibinman 3 for the first time in a while, and after beating it, I discovered the omake in the options menu.  While I've seen extras on games before, this is the first time that I've ever seen a game include what seemed to be fan art on disk.  Were there other cases of this on the PC Engine?

[Black Tiger]

Many PCE games have omake modes or various pieces of artwork which isn't the same style as the game. I'm not sure how much of it is actual fan art though.

[ccovell]

The Ultrabox discs had plenty of fan letters & art on them.

[SignOfZeta]

Fan art? Or maybe just those "arigato" marker drawings staff often do when a project comes to a close? Those are pretty common with anime LDs and stuff like that.

[Necromancer]

I don't know if it's from fans or the original internal artists, but the Yuna HuVideo disc has a bunch of neat sketches.

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. I assume those are all/mostly Mika Akitaka.

[Gao]

 

I managed to find a video on Youtube of the Shubibinman 3 section I'm referring to (skip to 12:30).  My Japanese is pretty shitty, but she brings up the hometown and pen name of each artist, and I'm pretty sure she says that some are 11 and 12 years old and something about the staff being moved by this before it moves onto something else.  So I don't think this is the standard sort of omake stuff you usually find (there's plenty of that in the end credits and after this section), but if someone who's far better at Japanese than me wants to give it a listen and let me know if I'm totally misinterpreting what's going on there, that would be great.

[esteban]

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I managed to find a video on Youtube of the Shubibinman 3 section I'm referring to (skip to 12:30).  My Japanese is pretty shitty, but she brings up the hometown and pen name of each artist, and I'm pretty sure she says that some are 11 and 12 years old and something about the staff being moved by this before it moves onto something else.  So I don't think this is the standard sort of omake stuff you usually find (there's plenty of that in the end credits and after this section), but if someone who's far better at Japanese than me wants to give it a listen and let me know if I'm totally misinterpreting what's going on there, that would be great.

Some of those images definitely seem to be fan art, which suggests that the entire montage is fan art.

Pretty awesome.

This is a super-easy game, but I never knew about the omake.