[Open Assets] The Matcha Gacha V2.1

Scizor, Click Clock, and Rocko have received sprite updates! In addition, Wilkins and Tiptup have received smaller sprite updates. Scrafty and Garfield got slightly resized signposts as well.

In addition, Hibiki Tachibana from Senki Zesshou Symphogear and Frogger from the arcade game of the same name are newcomers to the pack. Two characters I've been wanting to make for a while.

Hope you all enjoy! Also the Legacy pack has been shrunken to accommodate the resprites so redownload it if you want to have it and V2 loaded at once. Indivs are still something I wanna bring back so be patient.

So noticing that there's noticeable pixel gaps and whatnot in the turning/glance sprites (Kartbuilder just shows nothing on those frames unless you assymetrize the body), most characters aside from Zero, Grinch, and Tiptup (who has his own problems but I'll address them a bit later) received sprite tweaks to address these.

Also in case of further hotfixes I'll postpone doing indivs for the V2 guys until they're fully 'stable' in my eyes. My apologies in advance.

So the 'refresh' update I announced a month ago is finally here. The main thing is note is that the whole slate is wiped clean to only a small handful of characters:

Mira, Zero, Witch, The Grinch, Piranha Plant, and Tiptup all got changes to their sprites, some smaller and some flat out overhauls!

In addition to these 6 resprites though, this version contains both characters from the April Fools update this year, as well as:

Scrafty from Pokemon (6 weight and 2 speed) and Garfield (in Wonder Boy's statblock)! Characters I felt like doing you know.

The characters that didn't make this initial update will come with freshened up spritework in the future, and in the meantime will be in a separate 'legacy' archive. OP will be updated to reflect these changes.

No actual new version yet, but for the past month or so, inspired by others:

I decided that I'm going to refresh the pack. Mainly through learning about slight shading and anti-aliasing, and the general inconsistency of the sprites in this pack, I'm going through each character here (except for Puggsy, who will be removed in the next update due to the Combi-Rings version being VASTLY superior), and respriting them or touching them up.

The first part of the refresh will contain Wilkins and Monkey as well as:
6, 3
7, 5
6, 6
3, 5
7, 1
2, 1

And two newcomers. It'll come when it'll come.

I'm proud to announce that I've teamed up with two historic caffeine beverage brands to bring them to this pack! Wilkins and a FREE MONKEY! This has been a long dream of mine as soon as this modpack started, so I'm glad they gave me the go ahead.

(In all seriousness though, this update adds Wilkins from the Wilkins Coffee commercials (Whisper's statblock) and Monkey from the PG Tips (and formerly ITV Digital) adverts (1 Weight, 7 Speed). In the span between the last update and this, I got myself Aseprite and thus these guys look a bit different to my usual recent style)

Due to various reasons I decided to release this update a bit earlier than expected. Mainly cause the one thing holding this update from release is something that might take a bit more time to get polished.

Though nevertheless:

Zero from Sonic Adventure (Bark's statblock), Piranha Plant from the Mario series (Cluckoid's statblock), and Phosphophyllite from Houseki no Kuni/Land of the Lustrous (Sonic's statblock) have been added to the pack. Other than these additions not much has particularly changed.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy!

Smaller update in the grand scheme of things, but felt I wanted to touch up on the characters I felt were most lacking of the current crop:

Mira and Jashin-chan have received new sprites. Other than spritework not much has changed about them.

Mew Ichigo is coming don't worry but I wanted these two out sooner rather than later.

Also, since I feel like a resprite-only update wouldn't be convincing to many, I've also added a new character:

The Interactive Buddy from the Flash game of the same name! It has the same statblock as Motobug.

Other, smaller changes:
1. In the full pack, some characters got rivals added to reflect other characters in the pack. This also includes some from my HoloPack. The individual releases only contain basegame rivals still.

2. Mira, Grim, iDog, and Click Clock have the Machine tag added.

I'll be officially splitting off the VTuber characters into their own pack which will come a bit later, but to make up for the 4 lost racers, 3 more take their place:

Click Clock from Answer Hunt (the prototype for Sonic's Schoolhouse; the recent dumpings of Sonic prototypes by Hidden Palace gave me inspiration to do this guy again given the prototype of Sonic's Schoolhouse specifically has way more voice lines to work with)

Hitagi Senjougahara from the Monogatari Series

And Scizor from Pokemon

They are in the statblocks for Tails, Mail, and Ecco respectively. Main page will be updated to reflect these changes.

Special thanks to @Ei-El for sorting out Hitagi's voicelines for me given I've had a bit of trouble deciphering which ones to use.

Largely this update mainly contains 3 new characters, each either related to the holidays or the general winter-y vibe.

As follows they are:
Penta Penguin (Crash Team Racing [technically the Crash manga but shhh])
Esdeath (Akame ga Kill)
The Grinch

See you all next year for whatever I have in store. I hope to hone in my skills more, maybe get in some experiments here and there.

This update adds Cecilia Immergreen, another HoloEN member, probably the last before I decide to move them to a different pack. She's in Redz statblock.

Though this pack also updates sprites for Barney and Momoka. And includes the newfond ModInfo stuff new to 2.4.