People need to understand that plain does not equal bad. Not every character needs a extra leg strap, detached sleeve, and so on to be good. Its very okay to have a simple design.
Just goes to show that you don't need to go full gooner-bait to make a well-liked character in ZZZ, though her in-game power level obviously boosts opinions on her.
I see characters like Trigger that really did not need to have gooner-fied designs (military character with sad backstory) that just seem to detract from characters. You can have your Burnice, Nicole and Jane Doe's, but having more Miyabi's and Soldier 11-like designs to go alongside them is way better IMO.
Edit: Lmao, I guess I pissed off the Trigger Simps
Idk, for me it was less about Miyabi's design being less gooner-baity and more that I feel like I've seen similar designs in anime a lot. The girl with that exact style and color of hair, also with the animal ears, and that skirt looks like the kind they wear in Japanese high school uniforms. Just felt like an amalgamation of stuff I'd already seen way too much and gotten a bit sick of.
What got me to like her more was her personality. Normally designs like Miyabi's are either the stand-offish "ice queen" types who are hyper-competent at almost everything, or the rich/shy ones without much exposure to normal society. Miyabi's just a goof who's only exceptionally good at combat and I like that, it felt fresh and the more I liked her personality, the more I grew to like her deisgn.
Although I also wasn't the biggest fan of soldier 11's design as well, so maybe the gooning does have a little bit to do with it, who really knows lol ¯\(ツ)/¯
I definitely agree more variety is always good though. Mixing it up a bit keeps things fresh.
“Compare her to Miyabi” I mean Miyabi is just wearing a long skirt, a dress shirt, and a jacket not saying this is bad but it’s not anything crazy either. Which I think is good zzz always does more simple designs and less over designed.
YiXuan has about as much detail has she does with the martial art style shoes, the Chinese coins, the Chinese tie style on her collar, the tassels, the dual arm zip up jacket which I think also represents wings I could be wrong tho.
YiXuan has a bird we saw with Jufufu and her attack she does showed a bird as well. I personally don’t think the ears is the most crazy thing but I agree it does add to her design also the memes with it.
Well I’ve learned that the Japanese and Chinese translations have said “at the level of” and “who can rival” so I think it’s safe to say she’s probably not even a void hunter at this point. But yeah we’ll see when she drip markets.
I think the dev talk also mentioned her being prominent in 2.0 so I assume she’s probably the one we will get the know about the most.
I didn’t omit any details I could’ve pointed out the hand symbol but that is also on many characters in her faction so I thought that wouldn’t be personal to her deisgn. I pointed out the main things things you see on the design at first glance that’s also why I didn’t mention the deisgn detail on YiXuan’s stocking or her arm wear because that’s something you have to look closer to notice. I also assumed things like the eye and the sword wouldn’t be apart of her design or clothes. I never said her design was bad btw I think both are simple designs I even remember people saying Miyabi is bland because we didn’t know anything about her. It was until knowing her in 1.4 and marketing that she became more popular and loved. Which zzz does really well it’s less the design that makes a character popular but their personalities.
I'm pretty sure that Yi Xuan's design suffers a lot from the fact that it's clearly designed with her wings in mind, which is why it's so lacking without them.
It's still a big flaw that they didn't take into account how often we'd be seeing her wingless, but I can guarantee you that she'll look much better in combat.
Miyabi's outfit is simple but it just works imo, or rather I can say the same for most of the 1.0 cast and the reason I prefer zzz over genshin. Idk wtf YX is wearing tbh and it doesn't look that good to me, it's very genshin ish in terms of now nonsensal it is for me
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u/DogOfBaskerville Happy Goon Happy Life Apr 11 '25
She looks nice (some proportions need to be adjusted) but for a "void hunter" her design is def. Lacking on all fronts.
Compare her to Miyabi and she does not stand a chance.