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i was always bothered by the lack of like official concept art for kim kitsuragi that's available. there's like, three total pictures? which made no sense to me given how he's a main character, he's there with you for most of the game, how can this be all of it. where's the early iterations. alternate designs. turns out it's because they apparently drew him once and were like "oh this is perfect. we can't improve on this. we nailed it" and just moved on

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screenshot of text from the Disco Elysium art book. It reads: "Opposite: (163) A monochrome etching of Kim dating back to the early days of pre-production. Kim Kitsuragi, a fan favorite, a man of the people. Kim’s design was a slam dunk from the get-go."ALT

i once joked that given how little insight there is into his creation and how little concept art there was of him, he probably just appeared fully formed in the game one day. apparently i wasn't far off. his portrait is literally from pre-production just with colours slapped on it. "a slam dunk from the get-go". character of all fucking time

they actually comment on this on the very next description on the artbook too

a screenshot of an excerpt from the Disco Elysium art book. it reads "This page, top: (164) An array of body shots of our hero: Tequila Sunset, or is it Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau? Kras Mazov himself? Harrier Du Bois. Hobocop. Apocalypse Cop. Boring Cop. Art Cop. The player gets to decide. Unlike Kim, Harry went through a number of re-designs. Sure, the basics remained in place, but as we were rethinking our approach to the character creation pipeline, Harry started changing along with it."ALT
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