Slice of Venture Remake Diary #8 (Pixiv Fanbox)

Hello everyone!

Today I want to talk about Misao.

Back in the days, Misao was the "naughty girl" of the Kuritas. After all in SoVO, Akiko was never seen, Mari only had fun with Hitoshi, while Misao did a lot of nastier things (she even got a daughter.) I've always liked this contrast of having a pure-looking girl that acts as the perfect daughter/mother/daughter to everyone and that Fubuki is more or less the only one able to upset her.

Technically, things haven't changed but when you see the content of SoV2 or SoS, you realize that in the end, she's not THAT twisted x) My feeling towards her changed as the games went on. She went from being the first girl to get an illustration in Slice of Cards (proving how high she was in my list) to being the only Kurita woman not making it to Slice of School. Do I dislike her now? Not at all. She's just in a very particular position. Back when making more games like Naomi's pasts (small VNs focused on a single girl), she was supposed to have her game (Like Eri), so it's more a question of fitting (after all I love Naomi and she's not in SoS either.) Sometimes I have to make rational choices rather than what I just want ^^'

Anyway, just keep in mind that for her rework, I wanted to ditch that Slice of Card design because it was actually pretty bland. Nothing stood out. So I searched for clothes that could combine two elements: classiness and a veeeeeeeeeeeeery slight touch of sexiness. I wanted her to retain her pure look while still being as attractive as possible. I decided to go for a combination of tight dress, pantyhose and high boots.

I found it was going in the right direction from the start so we used this as a base. I found it was lacking something and after some brainstorming with Peak, we decided to add her a long jacket.

It makes the design more detailed, increases the "body covering" value (thus increasing the pure style) but at the same time, as long as those thighs are visible, it never kills the sexy side. But now that she had a jacket, why should we keep the long sleeves? So to retain the naked shoulders from the origina designs we tweaked the dress.

After that, it was just a question of choosing the right colors.

There was too much brown here and coupled with the yellow, I didn't like it. Moreover, Naomi's dress being already black I felt that we should change the color to avoid having two similar styles.

That already looked better. But I'll be totally honest, I put a veto here because she looks like she's out from the Aether corporation in Pokémon. White feels way too scientific for a coat. Since the dress was now blue, I decided to try back black for the coat and in the end, it worked well (especially if we tweaked the collar in white.)

So this is Misao's final design. As a bonus, I'll even give you the coatless version.

She now has all the attributes to catter to her original fans (at least I hope so). Nicely thick, pure-looking, sexy... That's how I see her. Tell me if you like her new design. On my side, I'll see you next week for another character rework post.

See ya o/