The commissioning company forgot to secure the rights for hanatsuki's designs despite using them as references for the outfits, so they've retracted these arts and released a statement explaining this:
Apparently this is tracing of hanatsuki's works with the similarity being 1:1 :Deadbeat: Such a shame, never thought a professional artist like Minori could do something like this.
Apparently this is tracing of hanatsuki's works with the similarity being 1:1 :Deadbeat: Such a shame, never thought a professional artist like Minori could do something like this.
Based on the apology tweet it sounds like they submitted hanatsuki's works as reference material without making sure that they could actually use them. Images don't look like a trace either, just the same outfit copied form the reference by a skilled artist.
Apparently this is tracing of hanatsuki's works with the similarity being 1:1 :Deadbeat: Such a shame, never thought a professional artist like Minori could do something like this.
They just posted an official statement (https://twitter.com/crux_anime/status/1839168083975614502, asset #23287017) affirming what the previous statement seemed to allude to, namely that they fucked up with sourcing and crediting their reference materials sent to the artist. I'm not sure why everyone was so ready to go after the artist for a professional commission like this.
