Denki Mystery Design Roughs
This is the process of deciding on the character design for Denki Mystery. Toshio’s face underwent detailed adjustments, right down to the direction of the slant of his eyes. On the other hand, Chorosuke, who is not here, was decided in one shot.
Scanned by the lovely @0somatsu, you can find the rest of their scans over here! Thank you so much for letting me use them!!! These design roughs were included with the Almost All Illustrations Art Book.
Mod Notes:
Ozo’s initial clothes seem to be more in line with a traditional Japanese Taxi driver’s uniform. His hairstyle has been the same with comb over bangs, but his soft hair swapped with Hajime’s sharp hair at some point.
Karatsugu initially had a different shirt, a light blue button up with the sleeves rolled up, this was swapped for his black polo in the final design.
Hajime went through the most changes. His sharp hair was swapped with Ozo’s fluffy hair at some point. His wardrobe consisted of a straw hat, circle rimmed glasses, a shirt pocket and a wristwatch at some point. His eyebrows hasn’t been finalized and at some point was short and sparse like the eyebrows he has in the anime, the final product has him with regular eyebrows. Hajime’s round rimless glasses are later reused for his father’s design
Toshio’s hairstyle had a minor change at one point. And true to the comment from the designers, His face went through multiple changes.
Takashi’s only concept sketch is him without his personal effects, his hat and his beads.
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