Silver + Anime = NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
-.- Seriosly, why does these anime and ponies go everywhere. There are places and games they shouldn't be in. And silver is one of them.

Since they can also be seen in the manual I presume that they have actually been made by someone from the original team - the credits found in the game's manual don't say who it was though (all the entries are tied to 3D arts, nothing about 2D or concepts).

You have no idea what your talking about. First off Pony crap has nothing to do with anime. Second off SILVER is obviously trying to be a JAPANESE style game. The artwork is very similar to Japanese anime / Manga which is IMO what makes it attractive. Madzack is just asking if anyone knew the artist who did the character designs which I'm sure the manual say mentions.

Don't get me wrong there is some shitty anime. But I have seem much more anime and JRP fantasy games that were badass than any western ones.