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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 guest artist - DrakeVagabond - 02-22-2018
Square Enix artist Tetsuya Nomura was responsible for the characters within the Torna organization. Takahashi had always wanted to work with Nomura, but as he was busy with other games at Square Enix, he hesitantly approached the company with the hopes of letting him work as a guest artist. To Takahashi's surprise, they accepted the negotiation. Other guest artists also contributed, such as Xeno series veterans Kunihiko Tanaka and Soraya Saga, who designed some of the game's "Blades", weapon-like life forms. Notably, Tanaka designed a blade of KOS-MOS, one of the protagonists of the Xenosaga trilogy.
Sources:
https://gematsu.com/2017/06/tetsuya-nomura-handling-character-designs-xenoblade-chronicles-2-torna-organization
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/10/31/xenoblade-chronicles-2-introduces-elegant-water-type-blade-yuuou-designed-soraya-saga/
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/10/23/xenoblade-chronicles-2s-blue-haired-rare-blade-tokiha-reminds-us-xenosagas-kos-mos/
RE: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 guest artist - Colossus - 02-23-2018
Screw KOS-MOS. Worst Blade EVER.
(Mainly because I am still missing her).