Sengoku Era Information! [JapanMS]

Still, that horse idea just meshes oddly with Maple.

More-so than you might think. I'm pretty sure the reason Wild Hunters use crossbows is because the sprites aren't animated in a way that supports mount riding. The Wild Hunter actually uses the standing attack animations whenever it attacks, the jaguar is just layered so that it covers the bottom half of the body; however, this also means that a weapon that swings or is as tall as the character get partially covered up and just look really awkward. Also, the sprites animate from wherever the character happens to be at the time of casting, so they can be unusually high or unusually low depending on where in the running animation the skill happened to be used.