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Summary
"Roberto Katze. Compared to this rough, I increased his intensity quite a bit in the color illustrations. Originally, his face was supposed to be visible on the NT3 cover, but that created a slight problem (see the NT3 cover rough for details). This led to his design being slightly different between the rough, the cover, and the color pages... I'd say the illustration that best captures my image of him is the opening color illustration." ―Kiyotaka Haimura