#I won't lie the current inescapable wave of Marvel media has made me very bitter towards the IP and superhero comics as a whole

[solradguy]

It's really funny that characters named Venom and Eddie exist in guilty gear and as far as I can tell are not in any way related to the marvel characters. Depending on how long daisuke was planning Venom for he may have named them that before the marvel character had even been introduced (as their own character) in 1988

Daisuke's talked about having a huge design document for GG that he used to propose the project back with Missing Link[1] and that Sol is basically the oldest out of the entire cast[2]. I thiiink he said somewhere that he started planning at least Sol back when he was in high school..? In any case, I don't think Venom or Eddie had been created yet as early as 1988... A lot of the super early Zato stuff (<1996) just calls Eddie a "shadow," like it's just a power he has and not its own separate thing. I don't remember Daisuke ever having mentioned being into Marvel IPs either, but he's definitely into western media[3]

It's still really funny though lol Convergent evolution...

Ch3 Records ML vinyl art book interview thing

Character Designer magazine issue 1 (he might have mentioned this in the ch3r interview too)

He's mentioned Mark of Zorro, Cirque du Soleil, Highlander (movie), and of course the heavy metal bands before. Artworks of GGX 2007, GGX Drafting Artworks, GG Complete Bible