Fetish Talk vol.1 - A burden of guilt and black hair! Interview with illustrator Yomi Sarachi

Interview/article by: Sena Kondo
Editing by: Hitomi Sakuma
Ugh, he's so hot I'm gonna get a nosebleed...!
Raise your hand if you've never felt this way about an attractive male character. It's no use to hide it: we all have one or two particular characteristics that make our hearts race and heads spin.
In this new column fetish talks, we will cover various forms of fetishism, and try to understand what girls love by talking to creators of moe contents for women.
In this first installment, we interviewed Yomi Sarachi, the character designer behind Band Yarouze!'s OSIRIS and Arcana Famiglia.
She loves black-haired characters burdened by guilt...!?




I can't believe it, my tastes stayed the same! I guess I like characters who live hard and fast. Even though he was blond, not black-haired.

She started drawing illustrations because of her beloved Howl's fan arts





Illustration by: Yomi Sarachi
Pro character designers need to suppress their fetishes











If I could combine my interests freely, I'd go with "steampunk & machine bodies"


Yomi Sarachi's fetish points are... Guilt & black hair!
It also looks like that, looking back at the characters you used to love and who you still love, you might find a few common traits!
What kind of fetishes will come next? Please look forward to the next fetish talks article!
Yomi Sarachi's pixivFANBOX "DRAWER" is now open!
pixivFANBOX is a fanclub service that helps creators and fans to stay in touch. Yomi Sarachi's FANBOX DRAWER has just started!
This is what she's going to feature in her new space: "Illustrations, making-ofs, sketches, secrets, chats about this and that... I'd also like to serialize a series! You're welcome to request the contents that you'd like to see. I will post many illustrations and talk about them in much more detail than I do on Twitter." You should definitely check it out!

- Yomi Sarachi
- Illustrator. She worked with the character design of Arcana Famiglia, POSSESSION MAGENTA, Band Yarouze!, Magical Days and more. She is also in charge of the illustrations for Dengeki Bunko publications.
She published a manga version of STEINS;GATE and Mermaid Boys.