Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-112.207.82.60-20140309021854/@comment-25577599-20150416234609

Dizzyzebra wrote: Hm? I don't usually see Lola depicted as blonde. Nothing about her most common design strikes me as very fantastical. orz I think it's best we don't base our arguements off speculation though, how can we prove what the original illustrator's mindset was when they made the designs? And unless anyone knows who the original artist was, them being Japanese is pure guesswork. orz I seriously doubt that the avatars are meant to be Asian.

But really it doesn't matter why they were originally white. The point is, we have two characters confirmed to have black voice providers, and continuing to prefer to have them with white skin is getting to be weird, and is probably contributing to harmful trends. I remember seeing her more popular design being darker skinned, too (and I love the ones where her boobs are freaking massive, like-- why), but I have definitely seen the blonde variation a lot, too. Not as much on dA, though, obviously. x"D

I feel that it might not have even been Japanese who initially went for making the designs, but early VOCALOID fans in the west who were either a) in the weeaboo phase and wanted them to look more like the Crypton VOCALOIDs, considering how much everyone loved their characters. :-) IDK. I suppose new designs are in order for these two, tho. <3