


Over the last year, the company has been paying tribute to Mother with the ongoing HOBONICHI MOTHER PROJECT that’s seen the company release everything from Techo planner covers to complete scripts of all the Mother games in a single collection. Shigesato Itoi, the creator of the Mother/Earthbound series, is most known now for running Hobonichi, the company behind the popular Techo planners, among other things.

And they’re searching for new artists to appear in it! Worked on Snatcher and Policenauts in the past.Following the success of the first Mother official comic Pollyanna, and as part of the long-running HOBONICHI MOTHER PROJECT that celebrates the legacy of the Mother franchise, a second comic tentatively titled Pollyanna 2 is now in the works. Yoshioka Satoshi (Illustrator, chara designer who works on games.Asato Mizu (Most notably known for Denkigai no Honya-san).Hidekichi Matsumoto (You should definitely read Sabagebu!, it's a masterpiece).Taiyō Matsumoto (Most notably known for Ping Pong).Tsubasa Fukuchi (Most notably known for The Law of Ueki).Shinichiro Nariie (Also known as Yoshiki Naruse).Masakazu Ishiguro (Most notably known for Soredemo Machi wa Mawatte Iru).Tomomi Abe (As a side note, she really liked 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and made some pretty cute fanart of it).List of the 35 artists who participated in Pollyanna: Some might see no problem in drawing or retweeting adult content. Note that these are Japanese artists we're talking about. With links to either English profiles when available or Twitter profiles, in Japanese. We've compiled below a list of all the artists who worked on Pollyanna. I'd order it day one if I was rich and if not for the Covid-19 pandemic making international shipping a headache. Personally speaking, I've never been too much into Mother and didn't directly play the games myself, but I definitely want to grab this Pollyanna book either way. So it fits the universe of Mother pretty well. If you know a bit about manga, you'll be quick to notice these mangaka all have pretty distinctive styles and works under their name. Nobuhiro Imagawa tweeted a small animation for Pollyanna's announcement.
