Today, Bandai announced the winner of the Zero armor design contest they held for the upcoming release of the Rockman X Giga Mission Carddass trading car set. A total of 108 designs where submitted (between April 26th to June 30th). See the winner after the break!
And the winner is.... Infinity Zero by Kurome, a Rockman fan that loves the X, Zero and DASH series.
This is what Kurome had to say about his creation (thanks to Sidier for translating it):
Infinity Zero
"To give up a "power-up" feeling while keeping it simple, I choose an armor which has clear crystal parts; energy flows within them. Also, it's not the type of armor that you can say it's all-powerful, rather it has functions that are both merits and demerits; but Zero's ability to take decisions can cover those demerits; so I think that they won't pose much of a hassle."
As the winner, Kurome will be receiving a shikishi dedicated by Yoshihiro Iwamoto (a hard-board, paper edged with a thin strip of metallic gold paper that's often used for calligraphy art), and a special smartphone wallpaper. The rest of the participants will receive a commemorative smartphone stand-by image.
Just like the previous armor design contest for the Rockman X & Rockman X Mega Mission Selection Box, the winning design will be redrawn by Yoshihiro Iwamoto and likely to appear in the booklet that comes with the box set.
Below you can see the winner of the previous contest next to Iwamoto's own interpretation.
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| "Energen Armor" by Ruku. |
There are so many cool designs that it makes you wonder how they end up choosing one.
ReplyDeleteI can see that perspective thing Eric was talking about. Look at that leg. Anyway wish Keisuke would redraw that Zero form rather or at least as well.
ReplyDeleteno parking on zero's shoulder pads
ReplyDeleteI call bullshit, that design was the least voted. Someone spammed votes and made it win.
ReplyDeleteI believe is Iwamoto and the Bandai team the ones that pick the winner. I don't think the fan votes matter.
DeleteMajor props to the Flame and Revive(?) armors.
ReplyDeleteThat is one boring ass Zero armor design. How did this one win?!
ReplyDeleteBoth are crystal-based. Granted, we never really got lore explanations for Energen Crystals, or, crystals in general, so it'd be worth it if we finally got it (albeit in a non-canon manga format). And crystals stretch the entire main timeline. Still, if they were going to swing THAT HEAVILY to a theme for this contest, they really should have stated as such from the start.
DeleteAll i even know Currently at all is that Capcom Literally Sucks Rock again Now that they've reminded me they care more about Cell Phones than Video Game Systems
ReplyDeleteMM11 tanked, but DMC5 was pretty great - I'm willing to listen to their MMBN/SF mobile pitch (and THEN we can pelt them with rocks if they blow this).
DeleteMega Man 11 didn't tank. It sold 870,000 units (as of Feb 2019). Capcom consider it a success.
DeleteI meant that in terms of the enjoyment of the games themselves, not necessarily the sales. DMC5 also seemed to do pretty well, as I recall.
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