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Artist tags on Games with Art Teams

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Something that's bugged me for some years now is that, say, all art assets from Granblue Fantasy get tagged under Minaba Hideo. He was the director of their art team in the beginning and now the CEO of their game-design company CyDesignation but the process of designing and/or doing lineart doesn't actually go to him for every character in Granblue. He can't really be credited fairly for the entire game's massive output.

Related to this, tagging official character splashes Senran Kagura New Link as Yaegashi Nan's art is just not correct, you can tell it's an emulation of his style but not actually him putting it out. In fact whenever Yaegashi does art for Senran Kagura these days it has all of his modern tells all over it whereas the New Link art is cleaned of individual quirks. A lot of gacha with iconic artists for the IP can't actually get one person to churn out that much art in so little time. Blue Reflection Sun was definitely aping Kishida Mel at times.

I'm just curious if there are some ideas for how to accurately reflect the situations here. A style tag would make sense for stuff like SK New Link and BR Sun, whereas GBF has its own house style that has evolved over the years—maybe a tag for CyDesignation is appropriate?

granblue tagging has always been a bit of a mess since basically forever. Minaba Hideo probably did contribute to a lot of the early character designs, but it would probably be hard to tell when exactly he took a step back and let the team take over. If you look through all 2300 posts under Minaba Hideo, only 16 of them are not granblue official art, and this has been the case ever since the creation of his artist tag. I would propose to just remove his name from all granblue official arts entirely but leave it blank just like how official arts for most other gacha games are treated when there is artist to directly credit.

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