Why does every ARR character have white or very light blonde hair?

Everyone who was a fan of the series at the time was aware of this. It was a huge deal.

I wasn't ): I was a teen, at best, during that time lol I didn't even had internet to look up Amano's full artworks...or even know who the artist was. I did realize the portraits were super different, but what me and friends really talked about was how the graphics looked. I thought they were ugly as fuck but my friends called me an "old man" for preferring the sprites LOL (I stand by my opinion! I get that at the time it was huge to have those graphics, but imo the sprites aged way, way better than FF7 and FF8, graphic-wise. Funnily enough, people used to call FF9 for kiddies for the stylized look, but it aged better as well for that sole reason.)

I never said Amano did the designs. I think you misread my post.

I...wasn't trying to deny anything, or correct you. When you mentioned how much Amano Sephiroth is I just felt like commenting that, because I do think it's ironic and a lil bit funny.

Amano really stopped being involved character design for FF after FF6, for some reason. He wasn't back even for FF9, which the "back to classics" FF, though I think it has more to do with him not wanting to do that anymore, probably?

You are right about the logos part though, as far as we know they never thought of replacing Amano for that.

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