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11 Pablo Uchida is the character designer credited with the visual identity of Emma and Koo, the dual protagonists of Beast of Reincarnation. He is a Tokyo-based concept artist and illustrator whose work on the project sits alongside director Kota Furushima and producer Mika Kurosawa. The two silhouettes that anchor every trailer the project has shown so far, Emma's vine-corrupted body and Koo's white wolf-like form, are both his designs.
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65 Uchida's contribution is the look of the protagonists themselves. Pre-release material credits him with the character designs for both Emma and Koo, which means the silhouettes, costuming language, and plant-and-vine motifs that read as the game's visual identity all flow from his work. Emma's hair has been transformed into trailing plant-like vines, and Koo's tail carries a higanbana, the red spider lily, as a flowering branch; both visual cues tie the characters directly to the Blight and to the flower-and-corruption motif that runs through the rest of the game.
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87 Because his designs carry that much of the game's tone, his work shows up well beyond the protagonist art. The vine-hair silhouette is the single most recognisable image used in marketing for the project, and Koo's wolf-like build with the red spider lily on its tail is the second. Both are present in the trailers, the cover and key art, and the storefront listings on every platform the game has been announced for.
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109 Background
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1211 Uchida works as a concept artist and illustrator based in Tokyo, with a freelance career that has produced international cover-illustration credits. His personal style has been characterised as painterly and near-realist, with a European influence on its rendering and palette. That background informs the painted, textured look of the protagonist art for Beast of Reincarnation, which leans on saturated colour and detailed surface work rather than on a flatter graphic-novel or anime-cel style.
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1413 Prior Credits
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1715 His on-record screen credits before Beast of Reincarnation are concentrated in the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. The two best-documented entries are an Animation Character Designer credit on the 2021 Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway theatrical film and a designer credit on the 2014 Gundam Reconguista in G television series, with a further Character Design credit on Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe.
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1917 TitleRoleYearMobile Suit Gundam HathawayAnimation Character Designer2021Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph CirceCharacter Design2021Gundam Reconguista in GDesigner2014
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2220 Uchida is best understood as an external character designer brought in for Beast of Reincarnation rather than as a long-time member of the studio's in-house art team. Game Freak is the studio developing the project, and Fictions is publishing it; Uchida's documented background is in animation character design for theatrical and television anime, not in any of Game Freak's earlier in-house releases. Treating his role as a guest character-design hire fits both the lineage of his other credits and the way the project has presented its team in pre-release material.
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2422 That framing matters because the visual identity of Beast of Reincarnation is unusual for the studio. The flower-and-vine motif, the painted realism of Emma's body horror and Koo's wolf form, and the saturated palette of the trailers all sit some distance from the studio's earlier visual language. Crediting an outside character designer for that look is consistent with how the project has been framed since the rebrand from its working title.
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2624 On Emma and Koo
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2926 The two protagonist designs share a single visual idea: bodies that the Blight has rewritten. Emma is an eighteen-year-old Sealer whose body has fused with plants, and her hair reads on screen as living vines that she can manipulate freely. Koo is a white wolf-like Malefact dog whose tail carries the higanbana flower, and the rest of the body silhouette reads as a clean wolf line interrupted by that single red bloom. Pairing the two characters in the same frame is the strongest single composition the trailers use, and it depends on the contrast Uchida's designs draw between Emma's tangled, plant-overgrown shape and Koo's spare, mostly-white form punctuated by a single red flower.
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3330 No published interview specifically with Uchida about Beast of Reincarnation has surfaced, so first-hand commentary from him on the design process for Emma and Koo is not yet in the public record. Details such as his collaboration cadence with Furushima, the number of design iterations the protagonists went through, the date he joined the project, and any concept art that did not make it into the final designs are all still unconfirmed in pre-release material.
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3532 Confirmed at a Glance
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3734 Character designer credited with the visual identity of Emma and Koo, the dual protagonists of Beast of Reincarnation.Tokyo-based concept artist and illustrator with a freelance career and international cover-illustration credits.Painterly, near-realist personal style with European influence in its rendering.Prior animation credits include Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021), Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, and Gundam Reconguista in G (2014).Positioned as an external character-design hire for the project rather than a long-time in-house staff designer.