A few days ago, community member PineappleCarl discovered concept art posted over a year ago or more by MOTHER 3 Event and Battle Designer Akiyuki Suzuki on their Twitter page! There were even a couple development notes in their previous posts that I’ve translated below.

In addition to those awesome finds, MOTHER 3 Artist Nobuhiro Imagawa posted more drawings of the characters to celebrate the game’s 16th anniversary last week! Check them out if you haven’t seen them yet!!

Concept Art, Enemy Drawings, and Development Notes by MOTHER 3 Designer Akiyuki Suzuki

Tweeted July 27, 2010: “Memories from MOTHER 3’s development: Mr. Itoi was brought to tears while he was writing the lines for Fassad’s mouse. It was around where the mouse says ‘I’m so lonely.'”

Tweeted May 16, 2020: “You might enjoy these 2 visuals, they were for Osohe Castle at the beginning of development. I’m so happy that now you can play them in real time! It’s nostalgic to look over proposal materials from that time (handwritten pictures!) lol”

In 2010, they also tweeted that during MOTHER 3‘s development, the team hosted a Magypsy-themed party for composer Shogo Sakai!

The rest of the posted images each did not have any kind of development related comment attached to them, so they just seem to be drawings of each character. Locria’s mouse was the first of the images posted, on January 1st, 2020, which was the zodiac year of the mouse. The rest were posted throughout 2020 except for the possibly unused chimera, which was posted in 2021 for the 15th anniversary.

That chimera image does not have a direct confirmation that it was an unused design, just that it was made during the time the designer was “making chimera at the Chimera Laboratory,” but “King P may not have liked it.” The chimera is a combination of a yellowtail fish and a daikon radish!

16th Anniversary Art by MOTHER 3 Artist Nobuhiro Imagawa