https://shmuplations.com/suikodenii/
The first of these two lengthy Suikoden II interviews appeared in the 3/99 edition of Dengeki Playstation; the second comes from the Japanese Gensou Suikoden II 108 Stars Character Guide. Both get deep into the nitty-gritty details of how Suikoden II's many characters were created, and include various other design topics and comical accounts of behind-the-scenes hijinks.
Hey guys! This massive piece is the guest-contributed interview I mentioned last month. I had planned to publish it as a free post, but unfortunately the original translation had so many errors that it required extensive re-writes; it now reads much cleaner (and is accurate) but it took a lot of time given the length. Anyway, next month we'll be back to our normal update schedule & patron requests!