Random topic, but I kind of noticed something about Nintendo and the differences between Japan and the west, and it's that most japanese artist who draw Nintendo stuff I have seen, which are a lot of people, rarely draw something that isn't Nintendo related, and at the same time people who draw characters from third party JRPG's or fighting games also rarely draw characters from Nintendo series, which is not something I see often with western artist, at least not most of the time, is easy to see people who draw both NIntendo and third party stuff. Or at least that's what I have seen.
Maybe the split that was made with Nintendo and third parties on the N64 and Gamecube was way more prominent there, idk.