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I'm guessing the boy enteries are because they either don't realise the voice is known or that they want to get their designs in for the sake of contest entry.

Remember in the last contest, male designs still became a back up character, so there is some stake here.

As for the designs, I kept seeing common traits amongst the finalists when I looked at them myself... Minor tweaks only between them, there is no stand out characters like there was with the first contest. The Formula-style working which we saw in the previous contest is still very much alive, though its changed a little.

With each contest, we'll loose creativity as more and more fans base their designs on existing works. It surprised me that some of the YOHIOloid designs were unique enough compared to each other. But the habit of fans of copying their favourite existing designs, if even only in design essence not literal, will always be what holds contests like this back. :-/