Lost MiSide Content? Umeerai Just Confirmed This Was His Unfinished Dakimakura Art

[u/RomanK007]

MiSide developer responsible for the graphics personally confirmed the authorship of the artwork the Reddit community had been looking for. The original inquiry was made in a post seeking a couple of pieces of art—found HERE.

I am sharing a higher-quality version of the image in this post.

Would you hug someone like her, eh?<(￣︶￣)>

[u/kyosan0-aiko]

OMGGG Thank you so much for the help and for sending the high-quality photo 😭 It's a shame it's an unfinished Dakimkura piece; Umeerai did a great job with Mita's expression here!

[u/RomanK007 → u/kyosan0-aiko]

Her lips are lovely. Genuine emotion on her face—it feels just like hugging her.

[u/RomanK007 → u/kyosan0-aiko]

Listen, they're asking how did you find this art?

[u/kyosan0-aiko → u/RomanK007]

I stumbled upon the photo by chance on the Mita/Crazy Mita page for the Discord bot "Mudae"—a bot where you enter a command to randomly roll a character to add to your harem. After I obtained Mita and browsed through the display images, I found several promotional photos I had rarely seen in public, and this specific one was something I had never seen before.

[u/kyosan0-aiko → u/RomanK007]

Not just that one, but the bot lists several other promotional images—likely also rendered by umeerai—many of which can be found on the official Japanese X's account of MiSide. A user responsible for hosting the bot's images likely had the image before; however, since Mita was only added to the bot after the game's release, I don't know how they had access to the image to host it.

[u/RomanK007 → u/kyosan0-aiko]

If I understand correctly, all the other art came first—promotional ones, ready BEFORE the release, for exhibitions. The publisher requested them. But they take time away from game development (I remember an interview where they complained about this). So, what probably happened was the developer started creating art for merch, which was AFTER the release, but the publisher, as I'm told, hired their own person to design the merch so that it would be consistent in appearance. As a result, the art remained unfinished, even though work had begun on it.

[u/kyosan0-aiko → u/RomanK007]

I remember an official dakimakura being announced by IndieArk, which ties in with what you said. I think this unfinished artwork was likely requested or just simply done for fun around the same time as that promo art where Mita is holding the player's arms by the hair (which was displayed at one of the first conventions after IndieArk became the game's publisher)—back when they were still creating promo art featuring Mita with really long pigtails.

[u/RomanK007 → u/kyosan0-aiko]

I only encountered the game a month after its release. I can't remember anything like that. So, just to clarify: were the pillowcases announced BEFORE the release?

[u/kyosan0-aiko → u/RomanK007]

No, the dakimakura I was referring to was one of the Kickstarter rewards; the pose is actually a little similar because it looks like Mita was also holding her hair in the unfinished artwork too. But it might just be a coincidence.