Divine Gate illustrators/chara designers

Just a quick post I intended to do mostly for myself (I might use it later as a reference for...another project soon™ ) but here’s a (most likely incomplete) list of the DG illustrators that I know of:

- UCMM (also called Ushi-san / うしさん by fans): probably THE main DG artist, original designer of 4 of the main heroes (Midori, Hikari, Yukari and Ginji) and of many other popular characters. They used to draw rare scratch + limited scratch units (and free units too sometimes), but now they’re mostly doing artworks for limited scratch units and evolutions of their previous characters.

- Ichinose ( イチノセ ): Original designer of two of the main heroes (Akane and Aoto), they used to be one of the three main DG artists with UCMM and Natsushima. They were very active in the past (they not only drew a lot of area dungeons’, descend and guerrilla bosses, but rare scratch and limited scratch units as well, with some of their characters becoming very popular with fans, like Santa, Ariton, Oberon and Vivian), but it seems that at one point they stopped working for Divine Gate. Nobody knows why exactly and their whereabouts are unknown ( ? though recently some comments they made about their own DG characters were released, so what is the truth Ichinose ). As a result, the characters they designed were entrusted to other artists: now UCMM is in charge of Akane and Aoto, Natsushima is drawing Santa, and Yuurin, Shiratori, and Omica too now are taking care of their other characters.

- Natsushima ( 夏嶋 ) : One of the three main DG artists in the past with UCMM and Ichinose, they designed the popular Arthur, the Knights of Round, and Loki. They were mostly in charge of free units (only one of their characters, Arthur, was sold as limited scratch unit), and have created most of the seasonal event units like Ise and Vega. While they are still working for Divine Gate, they are a lot less active than before: the last character they designed is Deneb, and since then they have only drawn evolutions or alt. versions of already existing characters. (Also: their artstyle has considerably changed over time, yes this artwork and this one were drawn by the same person)

- Shiratori ( しらとり ) : Shiratori started working as the new designated descend bosses’ artist with Necros (possibly after Ichinose left and UCMM was too busy to draw the descend bosses) , but since then they have also drawn rare scratch units (and one character as a limited scratch unit, Pota) and were in charge of the evolution artwork for some of Ichinose’s characters (like Shakespeare). While they aren’t as popular as the first three artists, they have drawn several characters who got a decent fanbase, like Merlin, Tilson, Ittetsu, and Mathers.

- Yuurin ( ゆーりん) : I’m not exactly sure when they started working for Divine Gate and with which unit, but they’re currently the second designated artist for the limited scratch units, along with UCMM (possibly taking the role of Ichinose after they left) and they’re now in charge of several characters originally designed by Ichinose (they did Ariton’s, Paimon’s, Fatima’s and Vivian’s ultimate evolutions, among other ones). Unreasonably hated by a good portion of the fanbase but still doing their best please stop being mean to them.

- Omica ( オミカ ) : Trying to guess when Omica started working for Divine Gate is really complicated because they were only in charge of collaboration units in the past and...trying to guess which artist drew which collab unit is a nightmare. But their work as an original DG designer started with the Alulu/Nalulu/Yululu trio, and since then they have drawn other original characters (like Hinagiku) and they even drew ultimate evolutions for some of Ichinose’s characters (like Shokumyou and Tashin).

- Beikon / Bacon ? ( ベーコン ) : I...gotta admit, I know very little about them, in fact I’m not even sure I can recognize their style properly...But Shiratori confirmed on Twitter that they were the artist who drew the Holy Painters’ ultimate evolutions (w-why didn’t Shiratori drew their own characters here...I mean I’m not complaining about the result but...hum?) and Iiiii think they drew the New World Council series’ ultimate evolutions but...I’m not sure OTL Maybe they were that series’ original designer too...? Honestly I don’t know, they’re currently an enigma to me (I’d gladly hear more stuff about them...or see anything else they worked on besides Divine Gate, their artstyle is pretty cool)

I think there might be another illustator...one last hidden artist but huuuum welp that’s currently all I know about them! (I also tried to link their website/twitter account but some of them don’t seem to have one, sadness :’(  )