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Message from Inafune, part one
"I Want Rockman Fans to Wait Patiently"
The fans nurtured us
To be honest, the first time I drew Rockman, I didn’t consider what contemporary children… the children of 1987 would think of it. I did all my designing thinking only of what sort of heroes and robots there were, and what I thought was cool, when I was a child. I also didn’t have time to spare to think about the users. But at the time of the first game, I had a somewhat self-centered sense of drawing what I myself thought was cute or was fun.
When that changed was around Rockman 3 or Rockman 4. While looking at the loads of postcards for the boss character contest, I became intensely aware of the existence of the fans.
Previously, at the 20th anniversary event (held Nov. 18, 2007, at Ikebukuro in Tokyo), a really large number of fans came together. It impressed on me anew that even now there are an incredible number of people who love the old-fashioned Rockman. I’d like to make a Rockman for those fans, one that wouldn’t betray their expectations.
The fans nurtured us
To be honest, the first time I drew Rockman, I didn’t consider what contemporary children… the children of 1987 would think of it. I did all my designing thinking only of what sort of heroes and robots there were, and what I thought was cool, when I was a child. I also didn’t have time to spare to think about the users. But at the time of the first game, I had a somewhat self-centered sense of drawing what I myself thought was cute or was fun.
When that changed was around Rockman 3 or Rockman 4. While looking at the loads of postcards for the boss character contest, I became intensely aware of the existence of the fans.
Previously, at the 20th anniversary event (held Nov. 18, 2007, at Ikebukuro in Tokyo), a really large number of fans came together. It impressed on me anew that even now there are an incredible number of people who love the old-fashioned Rockman. I’d like to make a Rockman for those fans, one that wouldn’t betray their expectations.