User blog comment:Kirbyna321/Things I Don't Like About Vocaloid/@comment-5665682-20140623171343/@comment-24840832-20140623180603

Yeah, I'm not denying the fact that it's moe and based on a school uniform. Other than that, pigtails are pretty common but I don't really see any that long this often. Can still be considered "standard" I suppose. Impossible haircolor: Kei was given a certain color scheme (based on Yamaha's synthesizers) and Miku is actually per concept an android from the future but even if not, the haircolors are simply an anime design element and I don't think style specific stuff is something that should - or could - be called "stereotypical" (since I picture stereotypical as "Ooh, everyone of those has that it's so weird" while this is by default simply an option that many people use and many people don't use)  because it's just one of the many things to choose from when working with the anime style. But that's probably just me. And Kei tried another hairstyle, then this, and he liked this better which you may blame on it being so common but it's just personal opinion to me. The skirts are usually so short, I think, because often in anime style, the thighs are or seem actually longer than in real life so a rather normal knee-lengh one would already look very long. So another design element that comes with (many) anime style(s).

But I feel like I'm getting somehow too defensive. You have a point it might be considered "typical" but my experience with many animes has been that there is a wide enough variety in styles that actually finding something typical beyond basic facial features (and even there it goes from "Monster" to "Code Geass") might become difficult again. It's just 'cuz I draw a lot (and am obnoxious).

The main thing with what you said was that to me if it's possible to hate her because she's popular it's also possible to hate her for her design and if it isn't possible to hate her for her popularity it also isn't possible to hate her for her design. I'm a simple person like that. (wow, long comment again! I'm on a roll!)