Sakurai Picture of the Day 8/19

When I first saw the English translation of today’s picture of the day, I was incredibly surprised that the mentioned it was a female designer, as you don’t typically use the gender pronouns in Japanese. However, in the original Japanese post, Sakurai designates the gender of the designer through the symbol, shown below in parenthesis. Sakurai obviously wanted to limit any controversy from this outfit, despite it being a great call back to the Metroid games.

きょうの一枚。制作に残された日程、タスク的に、作るのは無理だろう。スタッフには、そういう話をしたのです。が、担当デザイナー（）の根性によって、完成しました。『メトロイドゼロミッション』エンディングで観られる、ショートパンツ姿のサムス!

It’s also kind of funny to point out that the two pictures of today have been retweeted 5,800 times and have been saved a total 3,000 times in less than a day. Metaknight’s reveal got 10,200 retweets and saved 4,000 times in a week.