Withdrawal Beast Designer

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Withdrawal Beast Designer

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https://youtu.be/_wJ1SiKWT1Q?t=763

This perplexed me when I saw it at the end of SpaceCoyote's latest speedrun of this game. Does anybody have any idea what "Withdrawal Beast Designer" means? I have a feeling it's just a mistranslation for something that indicates a contract worker, but all I found when I translated that back into Japanese is a bunch of weird, romance comic books.
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Considering it comes immediately after "Monster Designer", I'm assuming it's a mistranslation of "Assistant Monster Designer", or something like that. Maybe Shuuhei Ikeda was in charge of enemy designs, and the other three were working under him?
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Well there's no original to go back to since they used the same movie for all editions apparently and the Japanese manual doesn't have a credit section. The PAL manual does but it's the same as the game version and I'm drawing a blank for trying to reverse that one, but one of the guys listed was also the lead character model designer so assistant monster designer seems likely.
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"Assistant" is a strong possibility. It looks like they only listed one "Monster Designer" before that. I just took "Digital Zero" to be a reference to an outside vendor.

I've also been wondering if maybe they gave a couple of designers the specific task of deciding what it would look like when monsters die in battle, but that seems kind of flimsy. It's the only other way I can make sense of "withdrawal", though.
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Digital Zero is an outside studio, it appears they were hired to help with Suikoden IV. I think that's mostly what they do? They seem to have almost no online presence so it'd make sense if they're just programmers for hire. They might also be defunct by now.

That's also a very bad company name for google-ability.
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