Extra Content from Volume 7 (Vigilantes).
Bearded Master#
Beards are cool. They're great for communicating an apathetic, devil-may-care attitude. Master is a character who easily could've headed down a bloodthirsty path, but the presence of his family, Koichi and Pop keep him grounded. That's the idea here.
-Furuhashi
Bearded Master is all well and good when I'm drawing rough sketches, but when it comes down to inking everything in? He becomes a real in the butt. (LOL)
-Betten
Bomber Villain#
The Rough Design#
Flight + Bomb Villain
About 3 m tall
I came up with this enemy for the Christmas part chapter, but then I though this thing is totally suited to terroism, so it ended up getting mass-produced. The bombers really upped the stakes in the Sky Egg part of the story.
Behind the Scenes#
-Furuhashi
The design ended up looking like the cousin of Khezu (from Monster Hunter) and Mass Production Eva models (from Neon Genesis Evangelion). They're relatively fun to draw.
-Betten
Endeavor#
I think it's interesting how Endeavor plays the role of the scary hero. If we get the chance, I'd love have him chase Koichi around and treat him like a villain. That sounds terrifying.
-Furuhashi
Endeavor doesn't seem like the type to enjoy appearing at events. It'd be a whole different sort of party if he showed up. Not that anyone asked, but while trying to figure out to digitally create the texture of his flames, I resorted to copy-pasting pictures of real-life clouds. Trade secret.
-Betten
The Many Costumes of Aizawa#
For the so-called cosplay chapter, I submitted a list of costumes ideas and Betten Sensei dew the best ones. Aizawa's such a serious guy so pretty much any costume looks funny on him.
-Furuhashi
Often when reading the rough draft of a chapter, I think, "Wah ha ha, this is hilarious!" But when it comes times to draw, I'm stumped. This time was no different. I didn't want to piss anyone off! That was the main thing on mind while drawing. (LOL) A Japanse tennis player had just won some big tournament, so when I saw that on the news, I thought, why not have Aizawa Sensei play tennis too?
-Betten
Yoroi Musha & Thirteen#
Sorry!
Don't know what he looks like from down here.
These two didn't appear at the big hero event. If they had, I'm sure they would've made a spash with their abilities. I love coming up with action scenes based around a characters personality and gimmicks.
-Furuhashi
Yoroi Musha and Thirteen were included in the rough draft of chapter 47 I got from Furuhashi Sensei, but due to time constraints (mostly my own), they didn't make it into the final version. I'm sorry... m(_ _)m
-Betten
Bomber Villains: Variations#
The Rough Design#
High Speed Villain
Jumbo Size Villain
Six-Armed Villain
Usually walks around on two legs and two arms
Behind the Scenes#
I thought it'd get boring if every member of the bomb squad was identical, so I requested two or three variations. The one with mulitple arms really ended up pulling his own weigh, story wise. Multiplication plus bombs is a nasty combo.
-Furuhashi
Think they're all the same? Think again! ...is what I'd like to say but I messed up when drawing some of them, so don't inspect the images too closely!
-Betten
Best Jeanist#
Which do you prefer?
Boots Shoes and socks
As one of Japan's top-class heroes, Jeanist has to come off as a big shot with flash moves. I like his whole sleeve gimmick.
-Furuhashi
Drawing Jeanist is tons of fun. In this case, I wasn't sure whether to give him shoes or boots, so I just kind of swept the issue under the rug by drawing his footwear ambiguously. (Ha!) But which do you prefer?
-Betten
Chris and Pamela#
The Rough Design#
C.C. and Pamela (in the past)
Flashy letterman jacket
Dressed up
With hair band
Behind the Scenes#
At first, Cap's wife was more of a vicious, henpecking harpy, but her image changed in the flashback chapter about them meeting. She's actually a cutie.
-Furuhashi
Cap's early look seemed straight out of Back to the Future or Beverly Hills, 90210. His wife is more on the cartoony side (like Mineta or La Brava), with a hint of Edmond Kiraz's style.
-Betten
Message from Pop☆Step#
Pop☆Step: We got another special Illustration from Horikoshi Sensei this time around. Thanks for drawing Koichi looking so darn good. ♡
Message from Kohei Horikoshi#
Vigilantes 7
The Cruller officially went down in history as the coolest dude even here ·
-Kohei Horikoshi