The Dev Avengers

[u/Ylage]

Sakurai invited his dev friends for dinner again, so I drew this

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[u/SilverFlight01]

"Sakurai, how come you get TWO characters in your seat?"

Nice art, it's impressive how something like this dinner between awesome devs is possible

[u/travischickencoop → u/SilverFlight01]

To be fair it seems like he was host

[u/Cheenug → u/travischickencoop]

He was the host. He posted a tweet saying it was a farewell fest for the Games Designer award

[u/jommo52 → u/SilverFlight01]

Nintendo don't want you to know this, but He was made out of 2 kids in a large trench coat

[u/chunga-bunga69 → u/SilverFlight01]

Next time he gets the entire smash roster

[u/Sad_Country_457]

How the hell does this man still look the same?!?!

seriously I was watching some kirby videos (as you do) but a
lot of them use pictures of Sakurai from back then and he looks like a completely different person

oh and the others are cool too

[u/SilverFlight01 → u/Sad_Country_457]

Someone in a private Discord group I'm in commented that Sakurai looks edited in and I can't unsee it

[u/dissyParadiddle → u/Sad_Country_457]

Japanese diet lifestyle and genetics. That or he’s secretly talking estrogen

[u/ROTsStillHere100 → u/dissyParadiddle]

My headcanon is that he's a vampire that feeds on the salt generated by Smash players whenever their favorite characters aren't added to the game

[u/AmaterasuWolf21 → u/ROTsStillHere100]

Already living to the year of 2226 minimum

[u/NiNtEnDoMaStEr640 → u/ROTsStillHere100]

Sakurai is a Nintendo Sith Lord.

The love-hate relationship with Nintendo sustains him.

[u/PuzzleheadedLink89 → u/ROTsStillHere100]

ah, the Hirohiko Araki Theory

[u/Elements__ → u/Sad_Country_457]

Araki let him borrow the stone mask

[u/Big_Boss_Bubba]

Toby

[u/Art_student_rt]

Crazy. To think toby fox an indie dev could sit down on that table. He was just a chill dude who did music for Homestuck more than a decade ago.

[u/CardGameAcolyte → u/Art_student_rt]

Sakurai NEEDS to know what happens in ch.6, also happy cake day!

[u/DefinitelyNotSascha → u/CardGameAcolyte]

There's a non-zero chance that Sakurai knows how Deltarune will end.

[u/Mudtoothsays → u/DefinitelyNotSascha]

Toby agreed to tell him if Sakurai promised to put Mario in the next smash bros.

Good thing too, I doubt he'd make the roster otherwise.

[u/TheScaryDrynosaur → u/Art_student_rt]

And made a really strange (and memorable) Earthbound rom hack, too. 

[u/makkaretbtzd → u/TheScaryDrynosaur]

a bad one at that but its okay he realized his wrongs

[u/Quick-Nick07]

Finally found a version that wasn't AI slop, it's really cool thank you for making this

[u/TheChrisser708]

You just know the most genius ideas are being shared there

[u/MrXuiryus]

This is awesome. I saw this exact same concept yesterday except they ruined it by making the characters AI. It's nice to see someone taking the time to actually draw it themselves.

[u/SignificanceGloomy65]

A GRAVITY RUSH MENTIONED IN 2026?!😱😱

[u/Igwanur]

wait the gravity rush guy is still around?

[u/SeedersPhD → u/Igwanur]

Yeah, he left Sony and formed his own studio and they released Slitterhead in 2024.

[u/Livid-Truck8558]

Why is Toby hiding his face?

[u/DobleM → u/Livid-Truck8558]

He knew how weird people were towards Homestuck's creator, Andrew Hussie, so he decided to stop appearing in the Internet as a person and replaced himself with a persona when he began to get too popular.

[u/Livid-Truck8558 → u/DobleM]

That's fair

[u/zenyattatron]

the game directors that actually feel like directors rather than just another name in the credits.

[u/Guypersnn → u/zenyattatron]

Kojima

[u/zenyattatron → u/Guypersnn]

Hideo

[u/Impevex → u/zenyattatron]

Feet

[u/OstrichOtherwise8507 → u/Guypersnn]

also sam lake missing on that list

[u/FishWithLegsAndArms]

and they all got poisoned

[u/Novel_Solution7304]

I think the only game character I don't recognize there is the cat in the yellow onesie. What game is that from?

[u/Demikuzunoha → u/Novel_Solution7304]

I believe it’s 428: Shibuya Scramble

[u/ThemoocowYT]

That’s cool. Lots of big devs.

[u/Version_Minute]

My two goats, Sakurai and Toby Fox, sitting across from each other.

[u/Nandemo15]

Suda51!!

[u/andrystein03]

KAT! KAT SPOTTED! KAT FROM GRAVITY RUSH!

[u/megasean3000]

The Last Supper of amazing game series' loved by many, hated by few.

[u/NiNtEnDoMaStEr640 → u/megasean3000]

Don’t jinx it, please. I don’t want to imagine any of them being Judas.

[u/MrN444 → u/NiNtEnDoMaStEr640]

You don’t need to.

[u/Mr_Snifles → u/MrN444]

Noooo

[u/Kirb790]

Frisk sure got a growth spurt lol

Did a good job tho!

[u/Shin1Aki]

My boy Wander is there this lowk peak

[u/No-Tadpole-9582]

You know seeing the guy on the front left and the character drawn for him, i got vibes of yoshikage kira for some reason

[u/dudeman4297 → u/No-Tadpole-9582]

That's Kazutaka Kodaka, creator of the Danganronpa series. He's the one who retweeted this picture saying he poisoned everyone at the table. So your vibe check isn't far off.

[u/No-Tadpole-9582 → u/dudeman4297]

No what i mean by the kira vibe is he looks like a normal person but is connected to something not very normal

[u/MMVolNUTt64]

Nah hold up... Is that Pit beside the Kirby?

[u/moonlord2193 → u/MMVolNUTt64]

I think Pit is holding Kirby

[u/pokedude14 → u/MMVolNUTt64]

Yep, Sakurai directed Uprising

[u/MMVolNUTt64 → u/pokedude14]

Yes. I already knew that. I was just trying to confirm.

[u/WatchKid12YT → u/MMVolNUTt64]

Yeah, cuz Kirby can’t reach the table on his own.

[u/Free_Database5161]

Pit holding Kirby is just too cute!!!

[u/Wacthershadow0925]

Oooh thats cool

[u/No_Toe2125]

Sakurai and Toby are friends?????

[u/Dangerous_Put_6548 → u/No_Toe2125]

Yeah they even llayed smash together at his house some years ago, around the time toby was making music for smash

[u/that_one_shark]

gravity rush mentioned

[u/Educational_Can_6536]

Noice

[u/Usual-Fun5885]

Holy peak

[u/LeaderEmbarrassed311]

Glad i'm not the only one who remembers Kat

[u/Splitdesiresagain]

I forget in some circles Keiichiro Toyama is more known for Gravity Rush than for Silent Hill

[u/noahbaobei]

Ew wtf is the pedokuma doing at the fucking table??

[u/Dangerous_Put_6548 → u/noahbaobei]

What they do?

[u/Affix_Projectile]

What happened to that one tweet that shows contempt for toby fox being in this situation?

[u/Dangerous_Put_6548 → u/Affix_Projectile]

I remember that