Rachel is featured in the DOA book? she's in the NG hand-drawn by devs, however Rachel was never featured on any of them until her debut in NG Vanilla if I remember.
Technically, the only character by far who is a true coexist is Ryu Hayabusa, -probably- Momiji and Rachel in the future, however I remember Itagaki being blunt via FB on never wanting to include Rachel or Momiji in a DOA game back then.
Nice book here. Wow.. seeing the Nyo concepts again, I'm kinda lucky they went with the one they did. I see a recurring theme with all of them, but only the final design choice had everything I wanted in a character.
Lol at the cheap Mitsuru copy though.
No true reason for Itagaki, but he definitely talked about it on his FB when someone asked about how he thinks about TN's latest characters. Being serious here, Itagaki said "What in the hell is this? hono what? Marie? please, my heart cannot take so much."
Technically, the only character by far who is a true coexist is Ryu Hayabusa, -probably- Momiji and Rachel in the future, however I remember Itagaki being blunt via FB on never wanting to include Rachel or Momiji in a DOA game back then.