 For Maya's reappearance in "Spirit of Justice", she was given a renewed design; before settling on the final version, the development team considered using her mother, Misty Fey, as a motif and base for the redesign.Starting with the second game, the localization direction was handled by Janet Hsu; one of the first decisions she had to make was how to localize Maya's hometown and the Fey clan.She decided to localize it around the idea that "Ace Attorney" takes place in an alternative-universe United States where anti-Japanese laws like the California Alien Land Law of 1913 were not passed, anti-Japanese sentiments were not powerful, and Japanese culture flourished.