{"rewrite":{"id":"r_ab9336d3229a4d17b6c1ace5","clusterId":"c_2f986c9ce9fc0ff70620e7b5","slug":"miresi-devs-discuss-hyulla-s-3d-character-art-and-time-based-battle-design","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"MIRESI Devs Discuss Hyulla's 3D Character Art And Time-Based Battle Design","summary":"MIRESI: The Unseen Future is a free-to-play time-travel RPG developed by CONTROL9, the studio founded by former Goddess of Victory: NIKKE and Seven Knights 2 staff, with NIKKE illustrator Hyulla as art director. Smilegate Megaport ran a booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026 from September 17 to September 21 with playable demos, character animations, and cosplayers. In an interview, director Cho Seung, creative director Kwon Se-eun, and Hyulla spoke about character expression and the real-time turn-based battle system built around time.","whyItMatters":"The interview puts CONTROL9's art direction and its time-themed battle system in the same conversation, framing how a NIKKE-lineage studio plans to differentiate a free-to-play time-travel RPG from the character-collector field it grew out of.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eCONTROL9 was founded by staff from Goddess of Victory: NIKKE and Seven Knights 2, and it brought MIRESI: The Unseen Future to Tokyo Game Show 2026 with playable demo stations, character episode animations, and cosplayers on the booth\u0026#39;s main stage. The game is a free-to-play time-travel RPG set in a world where multiple timelines intersect; players take the role of a Council Member and travel with characters including Ende, Tierra, and Itsuka.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an interview, director Cho Seung and creative director Kwon Se-eun described a real-time turn-based battle system built around time, where character placement and movement determine the outcome. Art director Hyulla, credited on Destiny Child and NIKKE, discussed how the character designs are reproduced through 3D modeling in Unreal Engine, and how far the art can push the character proportions.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Hyulla is art director on MIRESI, so the body proportion choices readers noticed in NIKKE now travel with the art director into a new studio, where CONTROL9 is pairing that style with 3D models and 360-degree viewing.","twitterPost":"Hyulla's NIKKE art style follows the illustrator into MIRESI, where CONTROL9 pairs it with fully 3D models built for 360-degree viewing.","threadsPost":"Hyulla is art director on MIRESI, the time-travel RPG from CONTROL9, a studio founded by former NIKKE and Seven Knights 2 staff. The character art that defined NIKKE now has to work in 3D models meant to be viewed from any angle, a constraint 2D illustration never faces.","newsletterBlurb":"Smilegate Megaport showed MIRESI: The Unseen Future at Tokyo Game Show 2026 from September 17 to September 21, with playable demo stations, character animations, and cosplayers at the booth. The free-to-play time-travel RPG is developed by CONTROL9, a studio founded by former Goddess of Victory: NIKKE and Seven Knights 2 staff, with NIKKE illustrator Hyulla as art director. In an interview, director Cho Seung and creative director Kwon Se-eun described the real-time turn-based battle system, where character placement and movement decide the outcome.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/miresi-20261002-471371/\",\"title\":\"NIKKE Illustrator 'Sometimes Restrains Herself for Making Thighs Too Thick' in New Game MIRESI. So Instead Enlarges Other Parts, Bringing Fullness to Each. The Horizon Opened by 'Sexy + Refined 3D Models + 360-Degree Appreciation'\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4767,"outputTokens":815,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791178166,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T05:25:40.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T05:28:23.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T05:28:23.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_2f986c9ce9fc0ff70620e7b5","canonicalTitle":"『NIKKE』絵師は新作『MIRESI』では“太ももを太くしすぎて時々自制する”。なので他を大きくして、それぞれの豊満へ。「セクシー+精巧3Dモデル+360度鑑賞」で切り開く地平線","representativeArticleId":"a_6640d1966e0803903b807bc5","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"MIRESI\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-02T03:42:27.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-02T03:42:27.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T05:28:23.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/miresi-20261002-471371/","title":"『NIKKE』絵師は新作『MIRESI』では“太ももを太くしすぎて時々自制する”。なので他を大きくして、それぞれの豊満へ。「セクシー+精巧3Dモデル+360度鑑賞」で切り開く地平線"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["MIRESI"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}