I always thought Amano's style was way too... well, artistic to really work as a character portrait. They were portraits that were so bizarre, with features and designs that were so irrelevant to the character that they failed to serve as a character portrait. If you told me he was drawing characters from a video game about an race of mind-dead vampires -- I would totally believe you. Also: My first exposure to Amano's style was FF6, and I picture FF6 as a very dark, gritty universe, where all of Amano's stuff is totally white-washed out -- it was just the complete opposite of what I expected.<br/><br/>My circle of friends pretty much just refers to Tidus as 'Meg Ryan', (http://oi43.tinypic.com/2qis93b.jpg) and pretty much never use his real name.