The similarities are astounding, no doubt about it. That tall fella creeped me out far more than I want to admit, from the contrast with the... childlike naivete of the runupJust to make sure - this isn’t Hiroya Oku using a pen name, right?
> use of filtered out backgrounds from real photographs
Good call xyzzy, I got the comment section opened and read before reading the chapter fully and was confused by the comment earlier>somewhat realistic non super model japanese characters
>that (definitely an) alien design
>detailed sci-fi weaponry design with that filtered effect (probably from 3d model)